Drawn from a repertoire of popular works from the late 18th through early 20th centuries, Phoenix Opera productions are literally the favorite operas of all time!

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In Concert with the Phoenix Opera Orchestra

In Concert with the Phoenix Opera Orchestra and Chorus

La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848.

Magic Flute is an opera composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the popular form of a Singspiel,  that includes both singing and spoken dialogue.

Phoenix Opera presented Act 2 of Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus during two sold out gala performances at the Elks Opera House in Prescott, AZ.

Madama Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco. According to one scholar, the opera was based on events that actually occurred in Nagasaki in the early 1890s.

Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet who died of a heart attack at the young age of 37, on 3 June 1875, never knowing how popular Carmen would become. The libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, is based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem “The Gypsy” (1824) by Alexander Pushkin.

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette.