Opera Vermont has announced its 2027 season. The season opens with Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” at Highland Center for the Arts. Performance Date: Feb. 12 & 13, 2027 Opera Vermont will introduce “Opera Passport,” a new project designed to make opera even more accessible by presenting multiple 10-minute operas in communities around the state. Each stop offers a “stamp” in {…}
Opera Vermont is set to present a one-night-only performance, “Too Big for the BARN,” on Sept. 19, 2026 at the BARN OPERA House in Brandon, Vermont. This special gala event celebrates opera bringing music to the BARN that is normally impossible to fit inside its famously intimate walls. “Too Big for the BARN” will feature repertoire drawn entirely from operas {…}
Opera Vermont is set to present Gioachino Rossini’s “La Cenerentola.” Artistic Director Joshua Collier, known for pairing beloved masterworks with fresh, insightful theatrical perspectives, will set this production in a bright, “Seussian-esque” universe. In a statement he said, “There is a concern today that opera is only for adults, and must be tragic and serious in order to be honest {…}
Opera Vermont founder and Artistic Director Joshua Collier has been named a 2026 Creative Community Fellow by National Arts Strategies (NAS) as part of the Creative Community Fellows: New England program. The fellowship is a cohort-based learning program designed to support and connect cultural leaders who are using arts and culture to drive transformative change in their communities. Fellows enter {…}
Opera Vermont is set to perform Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, Vermont. The production, which will be shown on Feb. 13 and 14, 2026, will star Kathleen Echols (Mimì), Brian Mengler (Rodolfo), Brad Noffsinger Morrison (Marcello), Erin O’Rourke (Musetta), Darrell J. Jordan (Schaunard), Brian J. Alvarado (Colline), and Alex Karau (Benoît/Alcindoro). Joshua Collier {…}
The Downtown Brandon Alliance, in partnership with Opera Vermont, has announced that Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl & the Night Visitors.” The opera will be performed at the Brandon Congregational Church for two performances on Dec. 6, 2025. The performance will include Kathleen Echols as Amahl’s Mother, and Liam Shannon as the wise King Melchior. As the music director of this {…}
Opera Vermont has announced a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind multi-year cycle dedicated to the operatic works of William Grant Still, known as the “Dean of African American Composers.” The eight-year journey will present Still’s music in its full depth and diversity, beginning Nov. 14 & 15, 2025, with “A Bayou Legend,” and continuing Nov. 13 & 14, 2026, with the world premiere {…}