Blind & Visually Impaired Night at the Opera

OVERVIEW

Visually impaired guests are invited along with a driver/seeing companion to attend the Wednesday night dress rehearsal of Utah Opera’s production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

At 6:00 PM, our Artistic Director and Opera Education Manager will talk about the opera, pass around prepared fabric samples of costumes, and share information about the set. Braille translations of the supertitles and large print copies of the synopsis are available, as well as headsets through which a play-by-play description of stage action is broadcast.

This event is an annual collaboration between Utah Opera, the Moran Eye Center, and the Utah Council for the Blind.

If you would like a to read the braille supertitle script in advance of this event, the Library for the Blind can print a copy for you, beginning April 25. Call 801-715-6789 to order one. To have digital versions of the supertitle script emailed to you, email your request to [email protected].

This event is FREE but registration is required.

Doors open at 5:30 PM.

Dress rehearsal performance begins at 7:00 PM.

REGISTER HERE