Singer/songwriter Doug DeJoe returns to his hometown for a special concert with friends!  His performance will feature slice of life songs all about growing up in what he considers “the best small town in America.” It was in Fredonia, growing up in the “Little Italy” neighborhood that he learned about family, friendship, good food, good […]

Presented in Partnership with the Fredonia Jazz Society The Fredonia Jazz Festival returns in October after a year’s absence. Presented by the Fredonia Jazz Society, it will be held over three days at multiple indoor venues, including the Opera House. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 … The first event of the Festival is also the first date in the new […]

Violinist Jessica Tong and Pianist Michael Sheppard first met at the Peabody Conservatory, where they studied with legendary violinist Pamela Frank and pianist Leon Fleisher respectively. After their first performance of Mozart Violin Sonatas more than 10 years ago, they discovered they share a very rare singular vision in their approaches to music-making.  They have […]

The Opera House has partnered with Ekstasis Duo’s Eliran Avni and Natasha Farny to present a series of free-admission early evening recitals performed by talented students from the State University of New York at Fredonia’s School of Music. Called Ekstasis 2.0, the curated salon series is a concert initiative created by the Duo as an extension […]

American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece — the most widely performed new opera of the past 20 years — arrives in cinemas in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove.  Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject […]

Grammy Award-winning American Roots artists Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer join with Chinese classical hammered dulcimer player Chao Tian in a show that combines music from China to Appalachia and beyond. Instrumentation includes yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), gourd banjo, five-string banjo, ukulele, guitars, dumbek, cello-banjo and mandolin. The group’s repertoire includes traditional Chinese and Appalachian music as well as […]

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play, Robert O’Hara, oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic […]

The Opera House has partnered with Ekstasis Duo’s Eliran Avni and Natasha Farny to present a series of free-admission early evening recitals performed by talented students from the State University of New York at Fredonia’s School of Music. Called Ekstasis 2.0, the curated salon series is a concert initiative created by the Duo as an extension […]

Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus — and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. The Met premiere […]

Ancient Babylon comes to life in this classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze stars as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska, reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille. Mezzo-soprano Maria Barakova and tenor SeokJong Baek are Fenena and Ismaele, whose love transcends politics, and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy repeats […]