Role: Carrie Pipperidge

Dates: June 18, 19, 20, 21

Role: Carrie Pipperidge

Dates: June 18, 19, 20, 21

Role: Carrie Pipperidge

Dates: June 18, 19, 20, 21

Role: Carrie Pipperidge

Dates: June 18, 19, 20, 21

Now one of the most performed American operas of all time, Jake Heggie’s first opera Dead Man Walking was commissioned by and premiered at San Francisco Opera in 2000. Dead Man Walking is based on a 1993 memoir of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, which was subsequently made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. It is a heart-wrenching story of grief, grace and redemption, recounting Sister Helen’s courageous struggle to provide spiritual guidance to a condemned Louisiana murderer in the months leading up to his execution.

Heggie has become the leading living American composer of operas, having also written The End of the Affair, Three Decembers, Moby Dick and It’s a Wonderful Life. He is currently at work on If I Were You, a new opera commissioned by San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. Sara Jobin (most recently Evgeny Onegin, 2015) returns to conduct. Sara is the newly appointed artistic director of The Center for Contemporary Opera and last season made an important debut, conducting the LA Phil New Music Group at Disney Hall. Director Kristine McIntyre, who has staged the opera in Kansas City, Des Moines and Madison, makes her Opera Idaho debut.

Now one of the most performed American operas of all time, Jake Heggie’s first opera Dead Man Walking was commissioned by and premiered at San Francisco Opera in 2000. Dead Man Walking is based on a 1993 memoir of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, which was subsequently made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. It is a heart-wrenching story of grief, grace and redemption, recounting Sister Helen’s courageous struggle to provide spiritual guidance to a condemned Louisiana murderer in the months leading up to his execution.

Heggie has become the leading living American composer of operas, having also written The End of the Affair, Three Decembers, Moby Dick and It’s a Wonderful Life. He is currently at work on If I Were You, a new opera commissioned by San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. Sara Jobin (most recently Evgeny Onegin, 2015) returns to conduct. Sara is the newly appointed artistic director of The Center for Contemporary Opera and last season made an important debut, conducting the LA Phil New Music Group at Disney Hall. Director Kristine McIntyre, who has staged the opera in Kansas City, Des Moines and Madison, makes her Opera Idaho debut.

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes the cast of Opera Idaho’s upcoming production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking serenading you with some of their favorites from the canons of opera and musical theatre, and a dinner bar.

8:15pm- Door opens for dinner

9:00pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 8:15pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes the cast of Opera Idaho’s upcoming production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking serenading you with some of their favorites from the canons of opera and musical theatre, and a dinner bar.

5:30pm- Door opens for dinner

6:15pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 5:30pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

In simple terms, an art song is a poem set to music, usually for trained voice and piano accompaniment. More than that, art song strives to be the perfect combination of music and literature, based on four elements: poet, composer, singer and accompanist. The composer uses the full resources of the art form to embellish the poet’s text, sometimes even realizing potential interpretations that were not explicit in the poet’s words. In well-realized Art Song, the composer creates a duet between the accompanist and the vocalist. That is, the art song paints for us a picture of what the poet might have envisioned.

Opera Idaho’s Young Artists and Resident Company singers are featured this series of recitals dedicated to art songs. These non-staged songs often incorporate well-known poems and seasonal themes with complex music and piano. 

La bohème, Giacomo Puccini’s beloved masterpiece of Bohemian life in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1830s, returns to Opera Idaho for the seventh time – no opera has been presented more often in the company’s history. The passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, La bohème is perennially performed more than any opera in the world.

The production stars Irish soprano Celine Byrne as Mimi. Byrne made her operatic debut as Mimi in Scottish Opera’s 2010 production and in 2012 she was heard at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the lead role of Dvorak’s Rusalka. Soon afterwards she was invited back to assume the role of Mimi, followed by Micaela in Carmen and, in the seasons that have followed she has performed extensively throughout Europe as well as in the United States, China, Russia and Mexico. She made her American debut in 2018 as Magda in Minnesota Opera’s La rondine. Jessica E. Jones (Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, 2016) returns as Musetta. Conductor Stefano Sarzani, who conducted La bohème at Lyric Opera of Chicago in early 2019, makes his Opera Idaho debut; Andrew Nienaber (Don Giovanni, 2018; L’elisir d’amore, 2017; and Tosca, 2017) returns to direct.

La bohème, Giacomo Puccini’s beloved masterpiece of Bohemian life in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1830s, returns to Opera Idaho for the seventh time – no opera has been presented more often in the company’s history. The passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, La bohème is perennially performed more than any opera in the world.

The production stars Irish soprano Celine Byrne as Mimi. Byrne made her operatic debut as Mimi in Scottish Opera’s 2010 production and in 2012 she was heard at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the lead role of Dvorak’s Rusalka. Soon afterwards she was invited back to assume the role of Mimi, followed by Micaela in Carmen and, in the seasons that have followed she has performed extensively throughout Europe as well as in the United States, China, Russia and Mexico. She made her American debut in 2018 as Magda in Minnesota Opera’s La rondine. Jessica E. Jones (Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, 2016) returns as Musetta. Conductor Stefano Sarzani, who conducted La bohème at Lyric Opera of Chicago in early 2019, makes his Opera Idaho debut; Andrew Nienaber (Don Giovanni, 2018; L’elisir d’amore, 2017; and Tosca, 2017) returns to direct.

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes the cast of Opera Idaho’s upcoming production of Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème serenading you with some of their favorites from the canons of opera and musical theatre, and a dinner bar.

8:15pm- Door opens for dinner

9:00pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 8:15pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes the cast of Opera Idaho’s upcoming production of Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème serenading you with some of their favorites from the canons of opera and musical theatre, and a dinner bar.

5:30pm- Door opens for dinner

6:15pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 5:30pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes Opera Idaho’s Young Artists and members of Opera Idaho’s Resident Company serenading you with holiday, opera and musical theatre favorites, and a dinner bar.

8:15pm- Door opens for dinner

9:00pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 8:15pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes Opera Idaho’s Young Artists and members of Opera Idaho’s Resident Company serenading you with holiday, opera and musical theatre favorites, and a dinner bar.

5:30pm- Door opens for dinner

6:15pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 5:30pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

Opera Idaho joins Boise Baroque Orchestra (BBO) and its newly appointed artistic advisor Robert Franz for a semi-staged opera by George Frederick Handel, the most well-known of all Baroque composers. Acis & Galatea is the composer’s most popular dramatic work and has remained in the opera repertory continuously since its premiere in 1718. It is the first Handel opera produced in Opera Idaho’s 47-year history. Opera Idaho and BBO last collaborated to present Gluck’s Orpheus in 2014.

Tenor Karim Sulayman, winner of the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, performs the role of Acis. Young Artist soprano Cara Gabrielson performs the role of Galatea. Franz led Opera Idaho’s West Side Story in Concert (2018) and, as then-music director of the Boise Philharmonic, Faust (2009). Canadian director Erin Armstrong makes her Opera Idaho debut.

Opera Idaho joins Boise Baroque Orchestra (BBO) and its newly appointed artistic advisor Robert Franz for a semi-staged opera by George Frederick Handel, the most well-known of all Baroque composers. Acis & Galatea is the composer’s most popular dramatic work and has remained in the opera repertory continuously since its premiere in 1718. It is the first Handel opera produced in Opera Idaho’s 47-year history. Opera Idaho and BBO last collaborated to present Gluck’s Orpheus in 2014.

Tenor Karim Sulayman, winner of the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, performs the role of Acis. Young Artist soprano Cara Gabrielson performs the role of Galatea. Franz led Opera Idaho’s West Side Story in Concert (2018) and, as then-music director of the Boise Philharmonic, Faust (2009). Canadian director Erin Armstrong makes her Opera Idaho debut.

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes the cast of Opera Idaho’s upcoming production of George Frederic Handel’s Acis & Galatea serenading you with some of their favorites from the canons of opera and musical theatre, and a dinner bar.

8:15pm- Door opens for dinner

9:00pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 8:15pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

Come enjoy a fun evening of music, food and drinks! The ticket price includes the cast of Opera Idaho’s upcoming production of George Frederic Handel’s Acis & Galatea serenading you with some of their favorites from the canons of opera and musical theatre, and a dinner bar.

5:30pm- Door opens for dinner

6:15pm- Performance begins

Doors WILL NOT OPEN prior to 5:30pm

$24 general, $32 preferred

During the 2019-2020 season, Opera Idaho will be visiting schools for free with John Davie’s operatic version of the story of The Billy Goats Gruff based on scenes from operas by W. A. Mozart, G. Donizetti and G. Rossini. The opera explores the themes of bullying, feelings and how to work and play together. This fun 40-minute children’s opera will be sung by the talented Opera Idaho Young Artists.

During the 2019-2020 season, Opera Idaho will be visiting schools for free with John Davie’s operatic version of the story of The Billy Goats Gruff based on scenes from operas by W. A. Mozart, G. Donizetti and G. Rossini. The opera explores the themes of bullying, feelings and how to work and play together. This fun 40-minute children’s opera will be sung by the talented Opera Idaho Young Artists.

Soprano Cara Gabrielson, mezzo-soprano Ashley Kay Armstrong, Tenor Max Jacob Zander and Baritone Radames Andrew Gil will reprise some of their selection from the Let’s Go to Paris concert, along with some of their favorite arias from the canons of opera. This concert is part of McCall’s Music Society’s Second Sunday Sounds.