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THE BLACK CLOWN is a smash! Rush tix are still available!
Want to beat the rush next season? Get or renew your Opera Pass NOW to access the 26/27 Pick Your Price presale starting June 30!
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Rush tickets go on sale 2 hours before curtain
Family can be a nightmare. @cbryanmusic first opera is part opera, part play, all drama. October 22, 23, 25
Starring @mikaelabennett_ and @brandenlindsay_ , in a vision created by Tony Award-winning director Daniel Fish
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Angst, risky behavior, and fraught romance never sounded quite so good. September 9, 10, 13
Starring @brownleetenor@arcostanzo@merwohlgemuth and @ellsno
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It’s Time!!! 26/27 Subscriptions and Opera Pass ON SALE NOW!
Subscribe to get your favorite seats in the house or purchase a 26/27 Opera Pass to access the Pick Your Price Presale starting June 30.
Opera, but different 26/27
Mitridate, re di Ponto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
September 9, 10, 13
Suddenly Last Summer
Courtney Bryan
October 22, 23, 25
Let ’Em Eat Cake
Music & Lyrics by Book by
George and Ira Gershwin George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind
January 29, 30, 31
Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
April 17, 20, 23, 25
Sitcom
Luke Styles
May 19, 21, 22, 23
*On Sale Dates*
April 28 at 10:00am
*Subscription Packages & Opera Pass
June 30 at 10:00am
*Standard Price Single Tickets & Pick Your Price Pre-Sale for 26/27 Opera Pass holders
August 4 at 10:00am
*Pick Your Price tix to Mitridate, re di Ponto and Suddenly Last Summer
November 23 at 10:00am
*Pick Your Price tix to Let ’Em Eat Cake, Aida, and Sitcom
Explore the music and influences of Davóne Tines’ The Black Clown at this engaging talk with Opera Philadelphia’s Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Lily Kass.
🗓️ Saturday, May 9
🕰️ 1:00pm
📍The Athenæum
🎟️FREE and open to all
❌ Tickets to performance are not included
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Philadelphia Premiere An adaptation of the Langston Hughes poem by the same name Co-created by Davóne Tines, Michael Schachter, and Zack Winokur Presented in Partnership with ArKtype Original music by Michael Schachter Directed by Zack Winokur Choreographed by Chanel DaSilva Performed in English
Creator and opera revolutionary Davóne Tines - @alsoanoperasinger - brings Langston Hughes’ poem “The Black Clown” to musical life in a vaudevillian rendering of this masterpiece. Fusing gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals into a searing night of theatrical brilliance, The Black Clown embodies the evolving, divided soul of Black America and animates a Black man’s resilience against a legacy of oppression. The Black Clown has been hailed as “pure poetry” by The Boston Globe, and The New York Times lauds “this rich, seamless production melds the past and present of African-American history into an electrifyingly ambivalent whole.” Tines makes his Opera Philadelphia debut alongside an ensemble of 12 performers in this genre-bending, visually arresting piece, juxtaposing dazzling cathartic performances with Hughes’ enduring work.
All tickets are Pick Your Price, starting at $11. Any amount above $11 helps support other operagoers and the work we present on stage.
@operaphila has partnered with @artreachphilly and Nicole Sardella to provide Audio Description for this production on May 17.
