Opera Orlando
Opera Orlando’s 2021-22 MainStage performances celebrate one of opera’s greats: Giuseppe Verdi. The Company kicks off its season with his beloved classic La Traviata on the MainStage at Dr. Phillips Center. Conductor Stephanie Rhodes Russell makes her Opera Orlando debut with artistic director Grant Preisser directing this original, updated production. Set in the glitz and grit of an underworld New York, internationally renowned soprano Cecilia Violetta López returns to Opera Orlando as Violetta. The production will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. The stellar cast will also feature members of the Opera Orlando Chorus and dancers from the Orlando Ballet.
La Traviata at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Walt Disney Theater
Cecilia Lopez
Friday, October 29 at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 31 at 2pm
Then, Opera Orlando premieres its first commissioned new work on the MainStage, The Secret River, an opera for all audiences. Based on the young adult book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Secret River follows the journey of Calpurnia, a young, intelligent girl with a robust imagination as she searches for a secret river to help her family and small town. The production features a special chamber orchestration and the Opera Orlando Youth Company under the baton of Everett McCorvey, founder and music director of the American Spiritual Ensemble, with stage direction by Dennis Whitehead Darling, and puppetry created and performed by Michelee Puppets.
Kathleen Belcher
The Secret River at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater
Friday,December 17 at 7:30pm
Saturday, December 18 at 2pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, December 19 at 2pm
Opera Orlando closes its 2021-22 MainStage season with Verdi’s first major success, Rigoletto. This original and thrilling production is led by Metropolitan Opera conductor Gregory Buchalter and directed by international stage director Kathleen Belcher, both making their Opera Orlando debuts. Audiences are in for an intense evening of complex characters, an action-packed plot, and unforgettable music, including opera’s most famous quartet and one of opera’s greatest arias, “La donna è mobile.” The production will be sung in Italian with English supertitles, featuring the Opera Orlando Chorus and dancers from the Orlando Ballet.
Rigoletto at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Steinmetz Hall
Friday, April 22, 2022 at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 2pm
Individual tickets and season packages are available. Learn more at operaorlando.org.
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra 2021-2022 season includes six concerts in the Classics Series and five concerts in the Pops Series. The season will also include the Focus Series, with an expanded six-concert series at The Plaza Live Theater in the Milk District just east of downtown Orlando, as well as the four-concert Symphony Storytime Series. In an exciting program expansion, the Resonate Festival returns for three evenings in February 2022, featuring Artist-in-Residence Stewart Goodyear.
The Philharmonic will bring in a diverse and exciting lineup of guest artists throughout the 2021-2022 Season. On the podium for his seventh season with the Philharmonic, Music Director Eric Jacobsen will conduct all of the Classics Series and select concerts on the Focus and Pops Series. Soloists headlining the Classics Series include superstar Violinist Gil Shaham, Concertmaster Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, Grammy-award Winning Violist Masumi Per Rostad, the return of Pianist Benjamin Hochman, Pianist Aaron Diehl, and the University of Central Florida Choir.
Classics Series at Calvary Orlando, Winter Park
Music Director Eric Jacobsen
BRAHMS & GOTTSCHALK: AN OPENING NIGHT MIX TAPE
September 25 at 7:30pm
DVOŘÁK’S POSTCARD “FROM THE NEW WORLD”
October 23 at 7:30pm
HOCHMAN, BRAHMS & SIBELIUS
November 6 at 7:30pm
GERSHWIN’S CONCERTO IN F
January 8, 2022 at 7:30pm
GIL SHAHAM PLAYS BEETHOVEN
March 5, 2022 at 7:30pm
CARMINA BURANA
May 7, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Focus Series at The Plaza Live
AN EVENING OF MOZART
October 11 at 7pm
OPO BRASS PRESENT OPERATIC AND SYMPHONIC FAVORITES
November 15 at 7pm
HOLIDAY BAROQUE WITH RIMMA
December 13 at 7pm
AN EVENING OF MOZART AND BEETHOVEN
January 24, 2022 at 7pm
STAR OF TOMORROW
February 28, 2022 at 7pm
JEREMY KITTEL RETURNS
April 25, 2022 at 7pm
Calvary Orlando
The 2021-2022 Pops Series opens with the audience favorite, Home for the Holidays, a celebration of the Kings of Soul in January, a festive Irish celebration featuring The Celtic Tenors in March, Cirque de la Symphonie returns in April with the music of Broadway, and Music Director Eric Jacobsen takes the podium in May with music of the Great American Songbook featuring world-renowned guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli.
The Symphony Storytime Series for young children features fun, family-friendly programs including Little Red Riding Hood, Holly Jolly Sounds of the Season, Ferdinand the Bull, and A Treeful of Monkeys, all performed at The Plaza Live.
For a full listing of performances, performers, and more information on tickets, visit orlandophil.org.
Orlando Ballet
Orlando Ballet is excited for its Orlando debut of The Great Gatsby by Choreographer-In-Residence Jorden Morris, who presented the past season’s wildly successful Moulin Rouge ®- The Ballet and Peter Pan.
The Jungle Book opens the season in October with stunning sets and costumes. The story of a boy discovering his relationship to his known family, his world, and himself will be an adventure for every age. The holiday tradition of The Nutcracker will be performed over two weekends at the Dr. Philips Center for the Performing Arts, allowing patrons to take advantage of multiple showings, including several Family Shows. Artistic director Robert Hill presented Giselle in his first season with Orlando Ballet at the Bob Carr Theater and again in 2015 at the Dr. Phillips Center’s Walt Disney Theater. This season Hill brings the classic story of unrequited love to Orlando Ballet’s new home, Harriett’s Orlando Ballet Centre. The company will also debut The Premiere Collection in the Great Hall of Harriett’s Orlando Ballet Centre. The 2021-2022 season will close with one of literature’s greatest love stories in choreographer-in-residence Jorden Morris’ The Great Gatsby.
Mainstage
Zavaleta Photography
The Jungle Book
October 7-10
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
The Nutcracker – Season Add-On
December 3- 5 & December 16-19
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Giselle
February 3-6, 10-13, 2022
Harriett’s Orlando Ballet Centre
The Premiere Collection: A Journey Through the Sublime
March 17-20, 24-27, 2022
Harriett’s Orlando Ballet Centre
The Great Gatsby
April 28 – May 1, 2022
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
For more information on performances, tickets and subscriptions, visit orlandoballet.org.