Utah Opera

Summer theater in Utah is in full swing! Along the Wasatch Front, you can see shows like My Fair Lady at the Hale, Fiddler on the Roof or Tarzan at…

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Opera’s current production of Verdi’s La Traviata at the Capitol Theater offers thrilling vocal performances and a committed chorus, even as some staging choices muddy…

CLICK HERE TO VIEW JUNE’S PREVIEW OF SHOWS PLAYING THROUGHOUT UTAH Utah’s stages are heating up again, and the months ahead promise a little bit of everything—big Broadway tours, ambitious…

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Opera’s latest offering is The Elixir of Love, the 1832 classic by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Despite being the 13th most-performed opera in the world,…

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.…

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…

Part II When excellence is done in a show, so often the whole company is elevated by great work. We also want to recognize individual efforts at all levels that…

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…

SALT LAKE CITY — Since it premiered in Turin, Italy in 1896, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème has become the most popular opera ever composed. Its incredible music and universal messages…