Sleepers Awake at Academy of Music
Dates: 4/22/2026 - 4/26/2026
📍 Theatre: Academy of Music
Opera Philadelphia
240 S Broad St
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tickets: Starting at $11
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Sleepers Awake
World Premiere
An opera by Gregory Spears
Inspired by the writings of Robert Walser and others
Directed by Jenny Koons
Performed in English with English supertitles
In this opera, the chorus has the starring role. Composer Gregory Spears, whose music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (The New York Times), “coolly entrancing” (The New Yorker), and “some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory” (The Boston Globe), creates a labyrinthine soundscape to accompany a dream-like rendering of the fairytale “Sleeping Beauty,” inspired by modernist writer Robert Walser. As the Opera Philadelphia Chorus sings itself in and out of slumber, the voices pull us into a liminal space where time is both fractured and cyclical. Conceived with and directed by the transformative Jenny Koons, this visually dazzling world premiere activates a collective voice to question the fragile line between waking and dreaming. Corrado Rovaris conducts.
All tickets are Pick Your Price, starting at $11. Any amount above $11 helps support other operagoers and the work we present on stage. In addition, $10 rush tickets will be available before the performance.
News About Sleepers Awake at Academy of Music
Temple University and Opera Philadelphia Reveal New Partnership
April 06, 2026 Temple University and Opera Philadelphia signed an agreement to collaborate on new opera recordings via Boyer College's BCM&D Records and student entrepreneurship initiatives in arts marketing and administration.
World Premiere Of SLEEPERS AWAKE Comes to Opera Philadelphia
February 11, 2026 Opera Philadelphia is set to debut Gregory Spears' new opera, SLEEPERS AWAKE, offering a fresh take on the Sleeping Beauty tale from April 22-26.About the Theatre
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Madame Butterfly (04/26/24-05/05/24)
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Jagged Little Pill (01/03/23-01/15/23)
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