The Washington Concert Opera has announced its 2019-20 season featuring two operatic performances, which are set to be performed at Lisner Auditorium.

The season opens with Thomas’ rarely performed work “Hamlet” featuring acclaimed soprano Lisette Oropesa, Jacques Imbrailo, Eve Gigliotti, and Jonas Hacker.

Performance Date: Nov. 24, 2019.

The second opera of the season is set to be Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra.” The opera will star Lester Lynch in the title role, Marina Costa-Jackson and Charles Castronovo. Musa Ngqungwana rounds out the cast as Fiesco.

Performance Date: April 5, 2020

The Washington Concert was founded in 1986 and has shaped the way concert opera is presented in the DC area. Since then the company has performed nearly 60 operas in concert format, with a roster of world-renowned artists including Stephanie Blythe, Lawrence Brownlee, Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth Futral, Denyce Graves, Ben Heppner, Deborah Voigt, and many more. This season, the company performed “Maria di Rohan” with Ginger Costa-Jackson and Marina Ginger Costa-Jackson.