Opera Theater of Connecticut - 2026 Season
Upcoming Performances
TOSCA OPERA TALK
Opera Talk tickets are $5.00. To order your tickets, click here. Opera Theater features Opera Talk, an informal, informative talk about the evening’s opera and composer by Artistic Director Alan Mann, starting an hour and a half before each performance, in the theater itself. Experience the passion and intrigue of Puccini’s Tosca in a dynamic 30-minute lecture.…
TOSCA
The Morgan School—Clinton, CT—August 8 and 9, 2026Both performances at 3:00PM The general admission tickets are $65 for adults, $60.00 for seniors, and $30.00 for children under 18.CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR TICKETS Thrill to the soaring music of the story of Puccini’s heroine of the Arts in this enduring and memorable opera, illuminating the…
Yule Tide Songs and Carols
Lutheran Church of Madison—Madison, CT—Saturday December 12, 2026 Once again, celebrate the magic of the holiday season when Opera Theater of Connecticut reprises Yule Tide Songs and Carols concert, a heartwarming event for the whole family, designed to capture the spirit of togetherness and joy. Again this year, our ensemble of talented performers will bring…
Past Performances
Opera Talk—Verdi: The Opera Composer Who Revolutionized Opera and Unified a Nation
On Saturday, November 9, 2024, 11:00 AM at the Essex Library, Mann will talk about Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi was a leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Don Carlos (1867), Aida (1871), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893) and for his Requiem Mass (1874). Mann will illuminate the artistic and musical imagination of this profound man whose vision not…
Celebrating Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim is described by Frank Rich of The New York Times as “the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American music theater.” Celebrate Sondheim’s amazing and brilliant career with Opera Theater of Connecticut and a group of first-rate professional singers through an exciting selection of moving pieces from his acclaimed and insightful shows,…
DON GIOVANNI
Join us in August for the intense and powerful, Don Giovanni Mozart’s masterpiece of seduction, deception, and divine justice, Don Giovanni, has been called the finest opera ever by many. Mozart’s moralistic opera (which he himself catalogued as a dramma giocoso) takes us through the infamous Don’s last day on earth before Retribution, in the…
WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG
We are pleased to announce the return, on Sunday, June 9, 2024, starting at 5:00PM, of one of our most popular events, Wine, Women, and Song. Celebrate them in a lovely concert of arias, duets, and ensembles dedicated to the appreciation of wine, women, and, certainly, love! Combine this with an entertaining wine tasting and…
Gilbert and Sullivan: Memorable Music, Madness, and Mayhem
Then comes our annual concert at the Sanibel (FL) Music Festival, which continues to put on its series after the devastation of Hurricane Ian. Our Gilbert and Sullivan: Memorable Music, Madness, and Mayhem concert will present six singers and Alan Mann, serving in his position of Chief Raconteur. We guarantee the topsy-turvey world of G&S…
Love is in the Air
We start our 39th year on Sunday, February 11, 2024, with Love is in the Air, a concert to celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Avon Library, 281 Country Club Road, Avon, CT 06001 as a part of their Sundays at Three series. The free one-hour concert begins at 3PM and features four amazing singers singing…
HANSEL and GRETEL
December 10, 2023 Back by popular demand, on December 10th, 2023 at 2 p.m. at the Andrews Memorial Theater, 54 East Main St., Clinton, Opera Theater of Connecticut will present its acclaimed reduced version of Hansel and Gretel. The opera is sung in English, accompanied by piano and features a children’s chorus and dancing angels. Abridged…
Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers
Rossini wrote L’Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) when he was 21, saying that he composed the opera in 18 days. The music is characteristic of Rossini’s style, remarkable for its fusion of sustained, manic energy with elegant, pristine melodies. The work was first performed at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice on May…
WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG
After years without this always exciting, always informative Opera Gala and wine-tasting, Opera Theater of Connecticut once again presents its Spring Gala Concert, Wine Women, and Song. Celebrate them in a lovely concert of arias, duets and ensembles dedicated to the appreciation of wine, music and, certainly, love! Combine this with an entertaining wine tasting…
Lerner and Loewe: Wit and Glamor Personified
Spanning three decades and nine musicals lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe are known for being behind the creation of critical on-stage successes such as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot along with the musical film Gigi. Lerner and Loewe: wit and glamour personified, our eighth Broadway-based musical theater concert at…