Opera Orlando is back On the MainStage for its 2022-23 Opera Everlasting Season at Steinmetz Hall in Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts with a Mozart masterpiece, the remarkable true story of the 1914 Christmas Truce, and a Donizetti comedy that is sure to bring the house down with vocal fireworks.
THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT | music by Gaetano Donizetti & libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard
Sung in French with English dialogue and supertitles
FRIDAY | April 21, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY | April 23, 2023 at 2 p.m.
Opera Orlando is in the army now, as it closes its Opera Everlasting season with Donizetti’s hilarious The Daughter of the Regiment. Enjoy this family-friendly tale about Marie, the eponymous “daughter” of the regiment. She was orphaned as an infant, but miraculously adopted and raised by a French army regiment not knowing of her noble birthright. It’s a show of equal parts comedy, romance, and vocal fireworks led by stage director Andrew Nienaber and featuring the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Joshua Horsch with internationally-acclaimed Puerto Rican soprano Camille Ortiz and Metropolitan Opera National Competition winner Carlos Enrique Santelli with members of the Opera Orlando Chorus and dancers from Orlando Ballet.
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Age Advisory | PG
ALL IS CALM: the Christmas Truce of 1914 | written by Peter Rothstein with vocal arrangements by Erick Lichte & Timothy C. Takach
Sung a capella in English
FRIDAY | December 23, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY | December 24, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Opera Orlando shares a message of camaraderie, hope, and peace this holiday season as it remounts its acclaimed 2019 production of All is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914. Set along the Western Front during World War I, this poignant and moving work relates the historic events of Christmas Eve in 1914 through actual soldiers’ letters and official military correspondence interwoven with old war songs and carols. Celebrate the holidays with this intimate and beautiful melding of music and theater as the cast performs a cappella in the acoustically perfect Steinmetz Hall.
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Age Advisory | PG
THE MAGIC FLUTE | music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
Sung in German with English dialogue and supertitles
FRIDAY | October 28, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY | October 30, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Opera Orlando presents one of the greatest operas ever written, Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). Bring the family to this enchanting and whimsical fairy tale about love and light, sacrifice and darkness, and finding one’s place in the world. In this sumptuous, spectacular production, journey along with Prince Tamino as he navigates a treacherous brave new world in his quest of self-discovery. The production also features the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and puppetry from Michelee Puppets.
Age Advisory | PG
