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Fall 2025 Opera Trends in the United States
Fall is opera season and what better way to bring your audience into the dramatic world of opera by using an opera talk with a performance or perhaps a complete opera performance? Top trending operas around the United States include Puccini’s La Bohème, Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Here are quick reasons to try these opera talks this autumn.
HAPPENING: METROPOLITAN OPERA, NY (OPENING OCTOBER 21)
SELLING POINTS: This opera is the most popular love story about the ups and downs of relationships. The storyline is very relatable.
keywords: love, loss, money, Paris
HAPPENING: SAN FRANCISCO OPERA, CA (OPENING SEPTEMBER 5)
SELLING POINTS: A father must grapple with the same evil he tries to protect his daughter from by isolating her. The question of manhood related to duty or licentious behavior is a central theme.
keywords: lust, loss, manhood, murder
PORGY AND BESS BY GEORGE GERSHWIN
HAPPENING: HOUSTON GRAND OPERA, TX (OPENING OCTOBER 24)
SELLING POINTS: In the 1930s, George & Ira Gershwin created a controversial opera that captures black life in the Jim Crow South. Porgy and Bess and its history captures the question of diversity in opera on and off stage.
keywords: love, religion, murder, drugs, South Carolina
HAPPENING: METROPOLITAN OPERA, NY (OPENING SEPTEMBER 24)
SELLING POINTS: The classic story of Don Juan and is many affairs is a selling point that draw people into the storyline. The repercussions of his lustful and arrogant behavior makes a great opera for Halloween.
keywords: lust, ghost, hell, revenge, Spain
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