Essential stories.
Bold stagings.
Unforgettable voices.
The 2026-27 season will have you saying “…ooooh, OPERA!” over and over again.
OPERA in CONCERT: SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
Sundays / August 2026
Truist Auditorium / Orlando Museum of Art
Before the curtain rises on the 2026-27 season, Opera Orlando brings the artists to you. Three Sunday afternoons this August at one of Orlando's most celebrated venues, the Orlando Museum of Art. Arrive early, settle in, and let the afternoon unfold the way Sundays should: slowly, beautifully, and with voices that make the afternoon stand still.
Each concert features artists from the 2026-27 season performing arias, songs, and duets — intimate and up close. A pre-show beverage service and post-show reception with appetizers and desserts included with every ticket. VIP tickets include valet parking and preferred seating.
This season…NO TENORS ALLOWED!
Summer Concert Series subscriptions are currently available here. Single tickets will go on sale June 1, 2026.
Steinmetz Hall / Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Four extraordinary productions in one of the finest acoustic halls in the country. Puccini's heartbreaking Madame Butterfly opens the season in a brand-new production, followed by Opera Orlando's first Wagner opera — the elemental, unstoppable Flying Dutchman. Spring arrives with Donizetti's irresistible Elixir of Love, set on the backlot of a 1960s Roman film studio. And closing the season, Show Boat — a hundred years old and still telling the truth about what it means to be human — in a full symphonic celebration with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
SUBSCRIBE today to all four shows and save up to $150 with season tickets starting at just $115.
December 12-13, 2026
Universal Orlando Foundation Theatre / Orlando Family Stage
Some performances you simply attend. Some you carry with you. The Opera Orlando Youth Company takes the stage at Orlando Family Stage with Brundibár / Vedem — two works born inside Theresienstadt ghetto, made by children who chose to create art in the most impossible circumstances imaginable. Performed by young artists for the whole community, this is an evening that reminds you what opera and humanity are capable of.
Tickets will go on-sale August 3, 2026.
March 4-6, 2027
1010 WEST / 1010 W Church Street
This is not a night at the theater. This is a night of heat, passion, and Piazzolla. María de Buenos Aires transforms 1010 West Church Street into a Buenos Aires tango club — and you're not in the audience, you're in the room. Piazzolla's bandoneon-scorched score surrounds you. The dancing pulls you in. The heat of the city wraps around everything.
No pit. No proscenium. No distance between you and the music. Just a hot tango night out.
Tickets will go on-sale September 14, 2026.
AND the annual signature events:
The Mozart Dinner: Legends & Luminaries
Operazzi Bash: a night under a thousand blossoms
Ooooh…love is never what it seems
music by Giacomo Puccini
libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Friday / October 2, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday / October 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday / October 4, 2026 at 2 p.m.
Soprano Yeawon Jun makes her Opera Orlando debut in the title role, joined by tenor Isaac Hurtado as Lt. Pinkerton. Kalena Bovell — the 2024 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient and the first Black woman to conduct an opera in Canada — makes her Company debut on the podium. Stage direction by Rebecca A. Herman in her own Company debut.
sung in Italian with English and Spanish supertitles
approximate run time of two hours and forty-five minutes with one intermission
Ooooh…some souls wait forever to be found
music & libretto by Richard Wagner
Friday / January 22, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday / January 23, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday / January 24, 2027 at 2 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera baritone Darren Drone — praised by Opera News for his “gorgeously warm tone and deep resonance” — returns to Orlando in the title role, joined by German soprano Johanna Will making her Company debut as Senta. Conductor Geoffrey Loff returns to the Opera Orlando podium. Production concept and stage direction by Grant Preisser.
sung in German with English and Spanish supertitles
approximate run time of two hours and fifty-five minutes with one intermission
Ooooh…love beats magic any day
music by Gaetano Donizetti
libretto by Felice Romani
Friday / April 23, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday / April 24, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday / April 25, 2027 at 2 p.m.
Soprano Nola Richardson — praised by The New York Times as “especially impressive” — makes her Company debut as Adina. Maria Sensi Sellnermakes her Company debut conducting. Production concept and stage direction by Grant Preisser.
sung in Italian with English and Spanish supertitles
approximate run time of two hours and thirty minutes with one intermission
Ooooh…America's story, it just keeps rollin' along
music by Jerome Kern
book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Friday / May 14, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday / May 15, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday / May 16, 2027 at 2 p.m.
A hundred years after its Broadway debut, Opera Orlando presents Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s landmark American musical in Steinmetz Hall in a semi-staged concert production — with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra on stage and a combined chorus drawn from Opera Orlando and Bethune-Cookman University. With stage direction by Roberta Emerson and conductor Dr. Everett McCorvey, this is the right team to bring Show Boat home. Grammy Award-winning baritone Gabriel Preisser takes on the role of Gaylord Ravenal with bass-baritone Brandon Coleman as Joe. Available as a special event add-on for MainStage subscribers.
sung in English with English and Spanish supertitles
approximate run time of two hours and forty-five minutes with one intermission