opera

I made up a saying decades ago: B.C.M.I.B. “Beethoven Can Make It Better!” And indeed he can. Utah Opera’s current offering is Beethoven’s only opera: Fidelio, first produced in 1805.…

Congratulations to Utah Theatre Companies in 2025! Across Utah, theatre companies of all sizes and models produced work in 2025 that challenged, delighted, and inspired audiences. From professional and semi-professional…

Opera Contempo’s latest project is a semi-staged, score-in-hand, reading of Act 2 of a new opera, Protectress, by local composer Jessica Rudman and librettist Kendra Preston Leonard. The final dress…

SALT LAKE CITY — The Shining, the first offering of Utah Opera’s 2025-2026 season is a psychological thriller (or some call it “horror”) that hopes to take its audience along…

TAYLORSVILLE — With its current presentation of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, Lyrical Opera Theater continues its tradition of featuring local artists in productions of the world’s greatest operas. The presentation on…

TAYLORSVILLE — Opera Contempo presented a delightful double bill of Western-themed operas in the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center September 11-13, 2025. In the intimacy of the Studio 5400 black box…

SALT LAKE CITY — Westminster Opera Studio and Westminster Dance Company’s combined production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas sparkles with young talent and creative staging, as directed by Opera…

LOGAN — Most people do not imagine a night out to the opera as being laugh-out-loud funny and very enjoyable, however, Utah Festival of Opera & Musical Theatre delivers a…

SALT LAKE CITY — Despite having some of the most famous music in the world, Jules Massenet’s Thaïs is rarely performed. Why? Because the title role is practically impossible to…

SALT LAKE CITY — Mozart’s music is perfection with few pieces more emblematic of this than his 1786 opera The Marriage of Figaro. Mozart had an innate gift to write…