2019-20 Opera Season

DON’T MISS HOT’S 2019-20 OPERA SEASON, FEATURING SOME OF OPERA’S MOST FAMOUS MELODIES BY PUCCINI, MOZART, AND STRAUSS!  

TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini 

Performances October 11, 13, 15, 2019 

Desired by both, but her hearts leaps for only one…

Set across the backdrop of a war torn Rome, this tale follows the love between the fiery diva Floria Tosca and the artist Cavardossi.  The evil Baron Scarpia, who lusts after Tosca, manipulates her into thinking Cavardossi is having an affair.  In a fit of jealousy, Tosca leads Scarpia to her beloved, who has been helping to hide his friend Cesare Angelotti, a political prisoner and former leader of the Napoleon Resistance.  Hoping to save Cavardossi from execution, Tosca strikes a deal with Scarpia that holds tragic consequence for all.

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by W.A. Mozart 

Performances February 14, 16, 18, 2020

Happily ever after can be a challenging, but funny, road

Servants to the Count and Countess Almaviva, Figaro and Susanna are in love and betrothed, but, as with all of opera’s love stories, there’s a catch – The adulterous Count is also in lust with Susanna and keen to exercise his “droit de seigneur”. Determined to teach the Count a lesson, Susanna, Figaro, and the Countess conspire with other members of the household to bring the Count to his knees…literally…in Mozart’s delightful comic opera, an entertaining romp from overture to finale.

SALOME by Richard Strauss 

Performances April 24 & 26, 2020

She stops at nothing to get what she wants… and she wants it all

A provocative opera in one act, this controversial story has not lost its ability to shock.

Set in Biblical times, this erotically charged opera centers on a tangled triangle: the persecuted John the Baptist, a lecherous King Herod and the monarch’s pathologically seductive stepdaughter, Salome.

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All performances will be staged at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. Friday and Tuesday performances start at 7:30pm.  Sunday matinee performances will begin at 4:00pm.