If you’re stuck in a contract of servitude that will last most of your life, it might as well be with the nicest pirates in the world!
ARTISTS: Gary Thor Wedow, conductor | Kyle Lang, director | James Schuette, set and costume designer | Madison Leonard, Mabel | John Riesen, Frederic | Craig Irvin, The Pirate King | Hugh Russell, Major-General Stanley | Meredith Arwady, Ruth | Shea Owens, Samuel | Kevin Nakatani, Sergeant of Police | Julia Gershkoff, Kate | Edith Grossman, Edith | Anna Atkinson, Isabel | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Wagner’s name is synonymous with opera—and his stormy, haunting, and poetic tale dives into the depths as it asks whether love can bring redemption.
Only able to come ashore once every seven years, a ghostly sea captain must find true love to break the spell that doomed him to sail the seas for all eternity—but when he finally meets the woman who could change his fate, will he allow himself to trust her?
ARTISTS: Ari Pelto, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Andreas Hager, associate director | Michael Chioldi, The Dutchman | Wendy Bryn Harmer, Senta | Robert Stahley, Erik | Tichina Vaughn, Mary | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Wagner’s name is synonymous with opera—and his stormy, haunting, and poetic tale dives into the depths as it asks whether love can bring redemption.
Only able to come ashore once every seven years, a ghostly sea captain must find true love to break the spell that doomed him to sail the seas for all eternity—but when he finally meets the woman who could change his fate, will he allow himself to trust her?
ARTISTS: Ari Pelto, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Andreas Hager, associate director | Michael Chioldi, The Dutchman | Wendy Bryn Harmer, Senta | Robert Stahley, Erik | Tichina Vaughn, Mary | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Wagner’s name is synonymous with opera—and his stormy, haunting, and poetic tale dives into the depths as it asks whether love can bring redemption.
Only able to come ashore once every seven years, a ghostly sea captain must find true love to break the spell that doomed him to sail the seas for all eternity—but when he finally meets the woman who could change his fate, will he allow himself to trust her?
ARTISTS: Ari Pelto, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Andreas Hager, associate director | Michael Chioldi, The Dutchman | Wendy Bryn Harmer, Senta | Robert Stahley, Erik | Tichina Vaughn, Mary | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Wagner’s name is synonymous with opera—and his stormy, haunting, and poetic tale dives into the depths as it asks whether love can bring redemption.
Only able to come ashore once every seven years, a ghostly sea captain must find true love to break the spell that doomed him to sail the seas for all eternity—but when he finally meets the woman who could change his fate, will he allow himself to trust her?
ARTISTS: Ari Pelto, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Andreas Hager, associate director | Michael Chioldi, The Dutchman | Wendy Bryn Harmer, Senta | Robert Stahley, Erik | Tichina Vaughn, Mary | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Wagner’s name is synonymous with opera—and his stormy, haunting, and poetic tale dives into the depths as it asks whether love can bring redemption.
Only able to come ashore once every seven years, a ghostly sea captain must find true love to break the spell that doomed him to sail the seas for all eternity—but when he finally meets the woman who could change his fate, will he allow himself to trust her?
ARTISTS: Ari Pelto, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Andreas Hager, associate director | Michael Chioldi, The Dutchman | Wendy Bryn Harmer, Senta | Robert Stahley, Erik | Tichina Vaughn, Mary | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Who will win on the battlefield of love in this spunky and family-friendly comedy?
One over-protective father would be enough; imagine having an army of them! Sparks fly when Marie, an orphan raised by French soldiers, meets Tonio from across enemy lines. Her “dads” won’t stand for this—and neither will the mysterious, aristocratic relative who whisks her away, determined to turn her into a lady and marry her off to a proper man.
ARTISTS: Stephanie Rhodes Russell, conductor | Michael Shell, director | Linda Pisano, costume designer | Madison Leonard, Marie | Jack Swanson, Tonio | Matthew Burns, Sergeant Sulpice | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Who will win on the battlefield of love in this spunky and family-friendly comedy?
One over-protective father would be enough; imagine having an army of them! Sparks fly when Marie, an orphan raised by French soldiers, meets Tonio from across enemy lines. Her “dads” won’t stand for this—and neither will the mysterious, aristocratic relative who whisks her away, determined to turn her into a lady and marry her off to a proper man.
ARTISTS: Stephanie Rhodes Russell, conductor | Michael Shell, director | Linda Pisano, costume designer | Madison Leonard, Marie | Jack Swanson, Tonio | Matthew Burns, Sergeant Sulpice | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Who will win on the battlefield of love in this spunky and family-friendly comedy?
One over-protective father would be enough; imagine having an army of them! Sparks fly when Marie, an orphan raised by French soldiers, meets Tonio from across enemy lines. Her “dads” won’t stand for this—and neither will the mysterious, aristocratic relative who whisks her away, determined to turn her into a lady and marry her off to a proper man.
ARTISTS: Stephanie Rhodes Russell, conductor | Michael Shell, director | Linda Pisano, costume designer | Madison Leonard, Marie | Jack Swanson, Tonio | Matthew Burns, Sergeant Sulpice | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Who will win on the battlefield of love in this spunky and family-friendly comedy?
One over-protective father would be enough; imagine having an army of them! Sparks fly when Marie, an orphan raised by French soldiers, meets Tonio from across enemy lines. Her “dads” won’t stand for this—and neither will the mysterious, aristocratic relative who whisks her away, determined to turn her into a lady and marry her off to a proper man.
ARTISTS: Stephanie Rhodes Russell, conductor | Michael Shell, director | Linda Pisano, costume designer | Madison Leonard, Marie | Jack Swanson, Tonio | Matthew Burns, Sergeant Sulpice | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Who will win on the battlefield of love in this spunky and family-friendly comedy?
One over-protective father would be enough; imagine having an army of them! Sparks fly when Marie, an orphan raised by French soldiers, meets Tonio from across enemy lines. Her “dads” won’t stand for this—and neither will the mysterious, aristocratic relative who whisks her away, determined to turn her into a lady and marry her off to a proper man.
ARTISTS: Stephanie Rhodes Russell, conductor | Michael Shell, director | Linda Pisano, costume designer | Madison Leonard, Marie | Jack Swanson, Tonio | Matthew Burns, Sergeant Sulpice | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Revenge only leads to disaster and no one is safe in Verdi’s tragic yet tuneful Rigoletto, the epitome of high drama and an operatic classic.
The Duke is a notorious womanizer and his court jester, Rigoletto, is all too ready to laugh at the men whose wives and daughters have been seduced—that is, until he learns his own daughter is the Duke’s latest conquest. In the end, the cruel and devastating joke is on the jester.
ARTISTS: Joseph Colaneri, conductor | Stephanie Havey, director | Steven C. Kemp, set designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | Scott Hendricks, Rigoletto | Jasmine Habersham, Gilda | Matthew White, Duke of Mantua | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Revenge only leads to disaster and no one is safe in Verdi’s tragic yet tuneful Rigoletto, the epitome of high drama and an operatic classic.
The Duke is a notorious womanizer and his court jester, Rigoletto, is all too ready to laugh at the men whose wives and daughters have been seduced—that is, until he learns his own daughter is the Duke’s latest conquest. In the end, the cruel and devastating joke is on the jester.
ARTISTS: Joseph Colaneri, conductor | Stephanie Havey, director | Steven C. Kemp, set designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | Scott Hendricks, Rigoletto | Jasmine Habersham, Gilda | Matthew White, Duke of Mantua | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Revenge only leads to disaster and no one is safe in Verdi’s tragic yet tuneful Rigoletto, the epitome of high drama and an operatic classic.
The Duke is a notorious womanizer and his court jester, Rigoletto, is all too ready to laugh at the men whose wives and daughters have been seduced—that is, until he learns his own daughter is the Duke’s latest conquest. In the end, the cruel and devastating joke is on the jester.
ARTISTS: Joseph Colaneri, conductor | Stephanie Havey, director | Steven C. Kemp, set designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | Scott Hendricks, Rigoletto | Jasmine Habersham, Gilda | Matthew White, Duke of Mantua | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Revenge only leads to disaster and no one is safe in Verdi’s tragic yet tuneful Rigoletto, the epitome of high drama and an operatic classic.
The Duke is a notorious womanizer and his court jester, Rigoletto, is all too ready to laugh at the men whose wives and daughters have been seduced—that is, until he learns his own daughter is the Duke’s latest conquest. In the end, the cruel and devastating joke is on the jester.
ARTISTS: Joseph Colaneri, conductor | Stephanie Havey, director | Steven C. Kemp, set designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | Scott Hendricks, Rigoletto | Jasmine Habersham, Gilda | Matthew White, Duke of Mantua | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Revenge only leads to disaster and no one is safe in Verdi’s tragic yet tuneful Rigoletto, the epitome of high drama and an operatic classic.
The Duke is a notorious womanizer and his court jester, Rigoletto, is all too ready to laugh at the men whose wives and daughters have been seduced—that is, until he learns his own daughter is the Duke’s latest conquest. In the end, the cruel and devastating joke is on the jester.
ARTISTS: Joseph Colaneri, conductor | Stephanie Havey, director | Steven C. Kemp, set designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | Scott Hendricks, Rigoletto | Jasmine Habersham, Gilda | Matthew White, Duke of Mantua | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
This Grammy-nominated, “totally user-friendly” opera (Los Angeles Times) is a smart and sleek take on the entrepreneur who changed our modern world forever.
Steve Jobs dedicated himself to creating the perfect device while wrestling with his own imperfections. He created technology to connect us while struggling to connect with those around him. Faced with his mortality, Jobs re-visits moments that shaped his life and circles back with newfound understanding.
ARTISTS: Robert Tweten, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Rebecca Herman, associate director | Jacob A. Climer, set and costume designer | S. Tucker, video | Robert Wierzel, lighting designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | John Moore, Steve Jobs | Sarah Coit, Laurene Powell Jobs | Wei Wu, Kobun Chino Otogawa | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
This Grammy-nominated, “totally user-friendly” opera (Los Angeles Times) is a smart and sleek take on the entrepreneur who changed our modern world forever.
Steve Jobs dedicated himself to creating the perfect device while wrestling with his own imperfections. He created technology to connect us while struggling to connect with those around him. Faced with his mortality, Jobs re-visits moments that shaped his life and circles back with newfound understanding.
ARTISTS: Robert Tweten, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Rebecca Herman, associate director | Jacob A. Climer, set and costume designer | S. Tucker, video | Robert Wierzel, lighting designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | John Moore, Steve Jobs | Sarah Coit, Laurene Powell Jobs | Wei Wu, Kobun Chino Otogawa | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
This Grammy-nominated, “totally user-friendly” opera (Los Angeles Times) is a smart and sleek take on the entrepreneur who changed our modern world forever.
Steve Jobs dedicated himself to creating the perfect device while wrestling with his own imperfections. He created technology to connect us while struggling to connect with those around him. Faced with his mortality, Jobs re-visits moments that shaped his life and circles back with newfound understanding.
ARTISTS: Robert Tweten, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Rebecca Herman, associate director | Jacob A. Climer, set and costume designer | S. Tucker, video | Robert Wierzel, lighting designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | John Moore, Steve Jobs | Sarah Coit, Laurene Powell Jobs | Wei Wu, Kobun Chino Otogawa | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
This Grammy-nominated, “totally user-friendly” opera (Los Angeles Times) is a smart and sleek take on the entrepreneur who changed our modern world forever.
Steve Jobs dedicated himself to creating the perfect device while wrestling with his own imperfections. He created technology to connect us while struggling to connect with those around him. Faced with his mortality, Jobs re-visits moments that shaped his life and circles back with newfound understanding.
ARTISTS: Robert Tweten, conductor | Tomer Zvulun, original production and staging by Tomer Zvulun | Rebecca Herman, associate director | Jacob A. Climer, set and costume designer | S. Tucker, video | Robert Wierzel, lighting designer | Michaella Calzaretta, chorus master | John Moore, Steve Jobs | Sarah Coit, Laurene Powell Jobs | Wei Wu, Kobun Chino Otogawa | Utah Opera Chorus | Utah Symphony
Recommended
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance
Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment
Mason Bates & Mark Campbell’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
