In rural Tennessee, a young woman becomes the target of suspicion and religious hypocrisy after church elders discover her bathing. Carlisle Floyd’s American opera draws on folk songs and revival music to tell a devastating story of innocence and exclusion. Angel Blue stars in Patricia Racette’s new production. Sung in English with projected English text. Approximately 2 hours 5 minutes, including one intermission. Contains adult themes and a gunshot.

An enslaved Ethiopian princess and an Egyptian commander fall in love across enemy lines, forcing them to choose between personal devotion and loyalty to their homelands. Verdi’s grand opera returns in a new production directed by Kaneza Schaal, starring Ailyn Pérez. Sung in Italian with projected English translation. Approximately 3 hours, including one intermission.

HGO presents a shortened, sensory-friendly version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute for families, performed in English and Spanish. Ana María Martínez directs this introduction to opera, with lobby activities before the performance and during intermission. Approximately 90 minutes, including one intermission. Every attendee, including children, needs a ticket.

Life aboard the Mississippi riverboat Cotton Blossom brings performers together across generations in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s landmark musical. Francesca Zambello’s production follows love, loss, and racial injustice, with a score including Ol’ Man River. Performed in English with projected English text. Approximately 2 hours 45 minutes, including one intermission. Contains historically racist language and situations, and gunshot effects.

A disillusioned composer bargains away his soul for renewed youth and the chance to pursue Marguerite. Set in Belle Époque Paris, David McVicar’s staging of Gounod’s opera follows desire, temptation, and the terrible cost of Faust’s pact. Sung in French with projected English translation. Approximately 3 hours 15 minutes, including one intermission. Contains adult material and a gunshot.

Mozart’s adventure unfolds in a whimsical nineteenth-century hotel, where a suffragette Queen of the Night and a chef named Sarastro inhabit a world of puppets, surprises, and magical trials. This imaginative staging pairs comedy with the opera’s search for wisdom and love. Sung in German with projected English translation. Approximately 3 hours 10 minutes, including one intermission.

Strauss’s romantic comedy travels to 1950s Vienna, where the Marschallin’s young lover Octavian falls for Sophie and a marriage arrangement becomes a tangle of disguises and misunderstandings. Lush orchestral writing and Viennese waltzes accompany a bittersweet story about love and the passing of time. Sung in German with projected English translation. Approximately 4 hours 15 minutes, including two intermissions.