Skip to main content

🎫 Save with a 2026 Festival Season Subscription | Renew or Subscribe today!

50 Seasons OTSL

50th Anniversary Activities

As we celebrate our 50th Anniversary Season, we aren’t just reflecting on five decades of groundbreaking opera productions…we’re also examining how we fulfill a year-round commitment to our community. Our investment in St. Louis stretches far beyond the confines of our season every May and June. Throughout the year, OTSL is present in neighborhoods across the St. Louis region, bringing opera to new audiences and creating spaces for diverse voices to be heard. We hope to see you at one of the many events offered during our 50th Anniversary!

Event information

Ongoing / To Be Announced:

Calendar of Community Activities

Patricia Sings Piaf

October 9 | 8:00 p.m. | The Sheldon Concert Hall  

Patricia Racette, acclaimed soprano and Opera Theatre’s Artistic Director Designate, performs the songs of Édith Piaf in this captivating concert. Tickets are available at thesheldon.org.

Get tickets

Music as the Message

Music as the Message Retreat: March 20 & 21 | Contemporary Art Museum 

Music as the Message Concert: March 22  

Celebrated soprano Adrienne Danrich puts a new spin on her program Music as the Message. Adrienne will host a ticketed retreat to explore music as medicine and healing through art at the Contemporary Art Museum, followed by a Music as the Message concert focused on creating community and uplifting spirits.

More information to come

 

Stay tuned for more information about these ongoing programs: 

An American Solider (2018) - (L to R) Andrew Stenson as Danny Chen and Kathleen Kim as Josephine Young in the world premiere of Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "An American Soldier" Photo (C) Ken Howard, 2018

Belonging in Opera Series

In 2026, OTSL will mark the 5th anniversary of this multi-year exploration of race and opera that features scholarly conversations; exchanges between composers, performers, researchers, and arts administrators; and performances by some of the world’s preeminent contemporary musicians. Through this work, we aim to gain unique insights into the ways in which race and ethnicity have shaped the history of opera and are animating its future. 

Co-presented with WashU’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Equity (CRE2) and the Department of Music

More information to come

 

Artwork & Arias  

Spend an evening experiencing connections between opera and the visual arts. In this curated program of arias, the powerful voices of OTSL artists resonate with themes and emotions also explored by visual artists in an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum. 

Co-presented with Contemporary Art Museum

More information to come

Festival Season Preview at World Chess Hall of Fame

World Chess Hall of Fame

Join us for a special preview of Opera Theatre’s 2026 Festival Season and hear the “greatest hits” from the company’s upcoming productions, sung by OTSL’s outstanding Gerdine Young Artists. 

Presented by the World Chess Hall of Fame

More information to come