Welcome to Austin Opera's 2024-2025 Season! We are thrilled and grateful to be able to welcome you into our audience for captivating and innovative live opera performances year after year! Each season is designed to delight long-time opera aficionados while enticing those who are new to the theater to experience the magic of our dynamic art form. Our 2024-2025 Season is no exception – we’re pleased to feature pertinent contemporary stories, epic musical compositions, heartbreaking classics, and of course, operatic talent seen at major opera houses across the country and internationally.

The season opens in what is sure to be a politically-charged November 2024 with the return of the compelling political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, which delighted a packed house in its one-night-only 2016 Austin Opera debut. February brings the company premiere of Verdi’s Requiem in the launch of a new series, Opera Unleashed: Epic Masterpieces with Timothy Myers, featuring the powerful voices of soprano Leah Crocetto, mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, and tenor Limmie Pulliam in their company debuts, alongside returning bass Wei Wu and a supersized chorus. The season closes with the beauty and tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, presented in a groundbreaking co-production with Opera San Antonio. 

Austin Opera will also welcome composer Jorge Sosa and librettist John de los Santos to workshop a new one-act opera, OFRENDA: A “Día de Muertos” Story as part of the Opera ATX Residency for Latinx Creatives. 

Austin Opera’s 2024-2025 season opens at the Long Center in November with The Manchurian Candidate, the compelling operatic adaptation of Richard Condon’s 1959 political thriller by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell – the same team that created the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Silent Night. Winner of four Austin Critics Table Awards, this complex and gripping story of patriotism, corruption, political ambition, and eleventh-hour self-sacrifice will make its highly anticipated return to the Long Center stage after its critically acclaimed 2016 Austin debut, which was called “utterly contemporary” with “visceral intensity” by the Austin-American Statesman. 

* Austin Opera Season Debut     + Role Debut

In celebration of Timothy Myers’ 2023 appointment as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Music Director, Austin Opera is thrilled to announce the launch of a new series: Opera Unleashed: Epic Masterpieces with Timothy Myers. Opera Unleashed will offer a series of company premieres over the coming seasons featuring some of the most historically significant works composed for the operatic voice. First up, is the company premiere of one of the canon’s most thrilling masterpieces, Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem.

Declared an “opera in ecclesiastical costume” at its world premiere in 1874, Verdi’s Requiem is a monumental work for the human voice. Three star singers will make their Austin Opera debuts: soprano Leah Crocetto, mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, and tenor Limmie Puliam, joined by bass Wei Wu last seen as Kôburn in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs in 2022. The Austin Opera Chorus will team up with the professional members of Chorus Austin, celebrating its 60th anniversary this season, undder the leadership of Austin Opera Chorus Conductor Cina Crisara.

* Austin Opera Season Debut

The final opera of the season spotlights the mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly, presented in a groundbreaking co-production with Opera San Antonio that will debut on April 17, 2025, at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts and then immediately come to the Long Center for three performances from April 25-27, 2025. 

In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, affectionately known as “Butterfly,” is seduced by the dashing U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton. After a hasty wedding separating Cio-Cio-San from her family, Pinkerton abandons her to return to America. Cio-Cio-San raises their son with the help of her maid Suzuki and never loses faith in her true love, but when Pinkerton’s ship finally returns to the harbor three years later, her faith is replaced by devastating despair. 

* Austin Opera Season Debut

In 2023, Austin Opera announced the latest development for Opera ATX – the company’s boundary-pushing series championing innovative operatic experiences and the artists and creative teams that bring them to life. Beginning last season, the Opera ATX Residency for Latinx Creatives began providing a unique workshopping space for Latinx composer/librettist teams to advance projects that will ultimately extend the scope of operatic storytelling.

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