Category Archives: opera

ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE
Cincinnati Opera
July 28-Aug. 1
Wilks Studio Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

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Orpheus, a grieving musician, loses his beloved Euridice too soon—and is granted one impossible chance to bring her back from the underworld. Guided by music and memory, he descends into a realm of shadows with only one rule: don’t look back. Ricky Ian Gordon’s Orpheus and Euridice retells the ancient myth with lyrical intimacy and emotional clarity, blending classical voice with contemporary style. It’s a haunting meditation on love, loss, and letting go. Sung in English with projected lyrics.

• Tue & Thu, July 28 & 30 at 7:30pm
• Sat, Aug. 1 at 3pm & 8pm

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CARMEN
Cincinnati Opera
July 25-Aug. 2
Springer Auditorium Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

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The fiercely independent Carmen lives—and loves—on her own terms. When she sets her sights on Don José, a straitlaced soldier with a sweetheart back home, he quickly unravels, abandoning everything for her. But Carmen’s heart doesn’t stay in one place for long, and when the charismatic toreador Escamillo enters the ring, jealousy turns deadly. Set to Bizet’s iconic, rhythm-driven score, Carmen is a story of desire, freedom, and fatal choices. Sung in French with projected English translations

• Sat, July 25 at 7:30pm
• Wed & Friday, July 29 & 31 at 7:30pm
• Sun, Aug. 2 at 3pm

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LALOVAVI
Cincinnati Opera
July 9-11
Springer Auditorium Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

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Set 400 years into the future, Lalovavi (lah-low-VAH-vee) is an Afrofuturist adventure that follows Persephone, the youngest daughter of the ruler of Atlas, the city formerly known as Atlanta. Currency and status in Atlas are determined based on the presence of Syndica, a gene that promotes vitality and longevity. When Persephone is found to possess a version of Syndica that confers immortality, she is betrayed by her family and must run for her life. She is thrust into an epic journey, uncovering a hidden past that leads her to discover love’s true meaning and the power to determine her destiny.  Sung in English and Tut* with projected English lyrics and translation. Includes brief, non-graphic depictions of violence presented in a theatrical context.

• Thu & Sat, July 9 & 11 at 7:30pm

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*Tut is a language that is indigenous to Black Americans and passed down from their enslaved ancestors, who developed Tut as a mechanism for learning how to read and write when it was illegal for them to do so. The title of the opera, “lalovavi,” is the Tut word for “love.”

SALOME
Cincinnati Opera
June 18-20
Springer Auditorium Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

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Salome, the teenage princess of Judea, becomes dangerously fixated on the imprisoned prophet John the Baptist. When he rejects her advances, her desire curdles into obsession. At her stepfather Herod’s birthday feast, Salome dances and, at her maniacal mother’s behest, demands a gruesome reward. Set to Richard Strauss’s lush score, Salome is a fever dream of lust, power, and prophecy, where every glance is loaded and no desire is without cost. Sung in German with projected English translations. Rated R for adult themes, violence, suggestive situations

• Thu & Sat, June 18 & 20 at 7:30pm

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