For the third year in a row, Arizona Opera has successfully met the challenge of raising a lot of money in a little time. First it was the Million Dollar May — back-to-back campaigns in 2013 and '14 ...

Arizona Opera’s costume shop manager Kathleen Trott designed the costumes using period photographs of frontier people and classic Hollywood Westerns as guideposts. Since August, Trott and her staff, ...

If you don’t picture cowboy hats and boots when you hear the word opera, you’ve never seen Riders of the Purple Sage. It’s the first opera completely developed in Arizona, and it premiered on Saturday ...

High class meets high convenience as two of our favorite spots for arts and culture in downtown Phoenix join forces. This fall, FilmBar and Arizona Opera are teaming up to bring movie-goers and ...

The character of Zorro – the nobleman-turned-vigilante who has captivated audiences for over a century – finds new life in Héctor Armienta’s operatic reimagining. Since Johnston McCulley first ...

With their productions, Arizona Opera seeks to present classic and modern operatic works. During the 2025-2026 season, they will be giving audiences a taste of different styles of opera. The company ...

In its 41-year history, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice has not been presented by Arizona Opera—until now. Orfeo ed Euridice is an Italian opera “based on the classic myth of a Greek ...

The 2025/26 Season will mark Arizona Opera’s return to a traditional “fall-to-spring” programming schedule and will open with the eagerly anticipated company premiere of Héctor Armienta’s Zorro.

PHOENIX — The Arizona Opera has named Brian DeMaris as its new president and general director. DeMaris has previously collaborated with the Arizona Opera, conducting the recent performance of "The ...

Environmental leaders will discuss what they hope to see come out of the State Legislature's session. Arizona Opera is working to expand and diversify audiences statewide through its NextGen ...

Prop 409, Difference between ER and urgent care, New productions for Arizona Opera 2025. Valleywise Health will ask voters to invest $898 million to build a new, 200-bed behavioral health hospital, An ...