Opera Saratoga has announced its 2025 summer season.

In a statement, General and Artistic Director Mary Birnbaum said, “This summer’s festival will transport audiences around the world for two sensational classics which give young singers a chance to shine and two new operas which challenge audiences’ notions of what opera means today. We’ll go on an exhilarating, romantic journey from Saratoga Springs and back again.”

The season opens with Offenbach, Meilhac & Halévy’s “La Vie Parisienne.” The opera will be performed for four performances at Universal Preservation Hall and will star Sungyeun Kim (Gabrielle), Fantine Douilly (Pauline), Chase Sanders (Baroness), Sadie Spivey (Clara), Tivoli Treloar (Metella), Kate Morton (Mme. de Folle-Verdure), Brennan Martinez (Léonie), Chuanyuan Liu (Mme. de Quimper-Karadec), Randy Ho (Gardefeu), Wagner Pastor (Gontran/Prosper), Geoffrey Schmelzer (Le Baron), Michael Segura (Urbain), Jack O’Leary (Joseph), Michael Hawk (Bobinet) and César Andrés Parreño (Frick/Bresélien). Gloria Yin will serve as assistant conductor, and Zoe Lesser will be the assistant director.

Performance Dates: June 20-28, 2025

Bock, Harnick & Masteroff’s musical “She Loves Me” will be performed. The work is famous for such pieces as “Vanilla Ice Cream,” “She Loves Me”, and “It’s Been Grand Knowing You.” The cast will include Christine Taylor Price (Amalia Balash), Kate Morton (Ilona Ritter), Shavon Lloyd (Steven Kodaly), Michael Segura (Ladislav Sipos), Jack O’Leary (Arpad Lazlo), Wagner Pastor (Head Waiter), and Peter Kazaras (Mr. Maraczek). Nathan Cicero will serve as assistant conductor, with Festival Artist Paige Dirks-Jacks as assistant director.

There will be five performances at Universal Preservation Hall.

Performance Dates: June 21-29, 2025

There will be a site-specific installation version of “In a Grove” composed by Chris Cerrone with libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann. This operatic adaptation of Akutagawa’s classic short story “In a Grove” which inspired the plot of Kurosawa’s renowned film Rashomon, offers a searing investigation into the impossibility and elusiveness of truth. There will be four performances at the Ferndell Pavilion in Saratoga Spa State Park. The work will feature Chase Sanders (Leona), Chuanyuan Liu (Priest/Medium), Sadie Spivey (Leona’s Mother), Shavon Lloyd (Luther), Randy Ho (Ambrose), Wagner Pastor (Policeman), and Geoffrey Shmelzer (Woodcutter).

Performance Dates: May 28 & 29, 2025

The company will present a work-in-progress showing of composer Emma O’Halloran and librettist Naomi O’Connell’s “A Mass for Women in Bathrooms.” This opera-theater work for three singers, an actress and electronic sound design by Alex Dowling reframes the structure of the Irish Catholic Mass to tell an intimate family story of three sisters and their mother. There will be two work-in-progress performances at Universal Preservation Hall.

Performance Dates: June 22 & 27, 2025

The festival’s special events will include family performances of songs and scenes from “La Vie Parisienne” and “She Loves Me,” Festival Artist Portrait Concerts, Opera Saratoga’s Gala, and a Great American Songbook concert at The Mansion of Saratoga.