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Anchorage Opera receives operating support from the Atwood Foundation, the Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation, and from the Municipality of Anchorage. Anchorage Opera is supported, in part, by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts the National Endowment for the Arts and from many generous individuals and corporate community leaders. Our Guest Artists’ Fitness Sponsor is The Alaska Club. Our Official Airline Sponsor is Alaska Airlines. Anchorage Opera is a member of OPERA America.
Venues
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2019-2020 “Season of Masterpieces”
BARBER OF SEVILLE
Nov 1 & 2, 2019 @ 8 PM
Nov 3, 2018 @ 4 PM
“Figaro! Figaro! Fiiiii-gaa-roo!”
When true love needs a helping hand, who you gonna call?
Seville’s most famous barber takes center stage as a jack-of-all-trades turned matchmaker in one of the funniest, most familiar and energetic operas ever written. Will the young and handsome Count win the hand of beautiful Rosina? Or will the devious Dr. Bartolo trick her into marriage? A madcap comedy of mistaken identities, dubious disguises and merry misunderstandings filled with memorable melodies (including the famous overture that inspired Looney Tunes’ Bugs Bunny cartoon the “Rabbit of Seville”) Happy ending guaranteed!
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
FRIDA
Feb 14 & 15, 2020 @ 8 PM
Feb 16, 2020 @ 4 PM
“A telenovela set to music”
The life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the stuff of legend. Wracked by agonizing physical pain and caught up in a stormy marriage to famed muralist, Diego Rivera, the flame that fueled Kahlo’s art kept burning bright. She painted fifty-five self-portraits, but no portrait is more revealing than the one in this opera. Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s colorful music is a pitch perfect match for the woman, her art and her passionate life with its fusion of opera, Mariachi-style orchestration, Mexican folkloric music, Broadway and musical theater. Critics and audiences across America and throughout Europe have fallen in love with Frida…and you will too!
Performed in English and Spanish with English supertitles
TOSCA
NEW DATES!
Apr 16 & 17, 2021 @ 8 PM
Apr 18, 2021 @ 4 PM
“All’s fair in love and war”
Step into a web of politics, police brutality, betrayal and jealousy! Set against a backdrop of war, chaos and corruption in Rome, the beautiful, celebrated singer, Floria Tosca, must give the performance of a lifetime to save the man she loves from the tainted hands of the treacherous chief of police. Will she murder for the man she loves? Will she save her lover in time? Will she emerge as the victor or victim of her own destiny? Puccini’s sumptuous tale of ill-fated love captivates new and longtime opera lovers alike. With passionate arias and soaring, sensuous melodies, Tosca’s power and raw emotion will leave you breathless.
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
News and Press
Anchorage Opera Announces Atwood Foundation $25,000 Challenge Grant and 2017-18 ‘Happily Ever After’ Season
Anchorage Opera (AO) announces their “Happily Ever After” 2017-18 Season, an eclectic mix of repertoire united by one element not always present in opera; everyone is alive and well at the end of the show. AO invites you to smile with them all season long. “We’re...
“Opera in Anchorage has become more inviting to attend as witnessed by this season and especially today’s Extravaganza”
Review by Robert Pond Opera in Anchorage hasn’t come easy. Marita Farrell, who apparently sung for a time at the Metropolitan Opera in NY, came to Alaska and worked with Lorene Harrison in November of 1948 and by 1962, 55 years ago, opera in Anchorage, finally took...
“Anchorage Opera’s latest and most significant offering is Glory Denied… as courageous as it is inventive.”
Review by Robert Pond The Anchorage Opera’s latest and most significant offering is Glory Denied from Tom Philpott’s book on Capt. Floyd James Thompson’s endurance as a Viet Nam POW and what is termed as repatriation. The very title of this evening’s opera defines the...