Tickets to Opera Philadelphia's 40th Anniversary Season On Sale 8/13

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, August 13, for Opera Philadelphia's 40th Anniversary Season, featuring a stellar cast of international opera stars in five new productions at the Academy of Music and the Perelman Theater. Single tickets will be available at operaphila.org or 215-893-1018.

"This 40th Anniversary Season at Opera Philadelphia looks to the future while celebrating Philadelphia's operatic heritage," said David B. Devan, General Director and President. "The six outstanding new productions form a journey-a carefully sequenced collection of the classic and the daring, the sublime and the surreal. It is an open dialogue between opera's biggest stars, its greatest fans, and its grandest stage."

The season will open on Friday, September 12, with a star-studded 40th Anniversary Gala featuring a recital by opera's star couple Stephen Costello and Ailyn Pérez. On Sept. 26, a new production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville comes to the Academy of Music stage. February brings the East Coast Premiere of Oscar by Theodore Morrison and John Cox, starring countertenor David Daniels in his Opera Philadelphia debut as Oscar Wilde. Philadelphia-born bass-baritone Eric Owens comes home in April 2015 to make his role debut as King Philip II in a new production of Verdi's Don Carlo. The popular Aurora Series for Chamber Opera at the Perelman Theater returns with two new productions: Ariadne auf Naxos, starring the gifted young voices of the Curtis Opera Theatre; and the American Repertoire Program's World Premiere of Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD, by composer Daniel Schnyder with a libretto by Bridgette A. Wimberly. American tenor Lawrence Brownlee stars as Charlie Parker.

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