Oklahoma!
July 10, 2026 – August 15, 2026
Set on the cusp of statehood, Oklahoma! celebrates the dreams and complexities of settlers forging new lives on the frontier.
2026 Festival
The 2026 Festival will feature a new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! directed by Francesca Zambello; Puccini, Illica, and Giacosa’s Madame Butterfly; Mozart and Da Ponte’s Così; and Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers, alongside special Pavilion events and the youth opera Robin Hood by Ben Moore and Kelley Rourke. From the wide-open plains of America’s heartland to the political tensions of the 1950s, each story invites audiences to reflect on personal and national ideals, as well as what it means to build, question, and carry forward the American Dream.
2026 Festival Events
Madame Butterfly
July 11, 2026 – August 31, 2026
This elegant, visually stunning staging presents a nuanced examination of the American presence in Japan and the cultural collision at the heart of Puccini’s timeless masterpiece.
Così
July 17, 2026 – August 14, 2026
Mozart’s sparkling comedy about love, loyalty, and deception takes on new life in an American college setting.
Fellow Travelers
Set during the 1950s “lavender scare,” Fellow Travelers follows two men whose relationship becomes a dangerous secret in an era of government surveillance and fear.
Robin Hood
When the law of the land is corrupt, what’s an honest citizen to do? In the absence of the King, the Sheriff has seized the country’s assets for himself and his cronies. Robin Hood is the unlikely leader of a band of ordinary folks doing their best to survive in the forest until just rule returns to the land.
Vignettes: Ellis Island
August 6 – 13, 2026
A powerful song cycle by American composer Alan Louis Smith, inspired by real stories of early 20th-century immigrants.
Happy End
A sharp, jazz-infused musical by Kurt Weill, blending crime, romance, and redemption in Prohibition-era Chicago.
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