Opera

Here, you’ll find content about theatrical pieces that tell their stories entirely through music. Consider starting with the Segal Center’s video of Contemporary Opera NYC: Talks with Artists and Producers or Kamala Sanakram’s essay about creating an opera on Zoom.

The Latest

Video

Voicing Innocence

Trauma, Memory, and Contemporary Opera in the Work of Kaija Saariaho

Tuesday 7 April 2026

New York City

Video

A Conversation with Paul Pinto

TORCHES: 30+ Years of Downtown Performance

Monday 2 February 2026

New York City

Essay

Fascism, Phantoms, and the Future

by Jordan Schildcrout

22 September 2025

La MaMa

Video

Bum Phillips All-American Opera at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

Sunday 16 March 2014

New York, NY, United States

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York presented a performance of Bum Phillips All-American Opera by Monk Parrots livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 March at 11:30 a.m. PDT/ 1:30 p.m. CDT/ 2:30 p.m. EDT/ 18:30 GMT. In Twitter, use #howlround.

Allison

Vanouse

Essay

Poetic Drama, Guerilla Opera

30 July 2013

Allison Vanousewrites about the premiere production of Adam Roberts' Giver of Light, an opera based on the life of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi.

event poster for VOICING INNOCENCE: Trauma, Memory, and Contemporary Opera in the Work of Kaija Saariaho.

Segal

Center

Video

Voicing Innocence

Trauma, Memory, and Contemporary Opera in the Work of Kaija Saariaho

Tuesday 7 April 2026

New York City

A conversation with librettist and dramaturg Aleksi Barrière about the upcoming 2026 Metropolitan Opera United States premiere of Innocence, the final opera by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, Barrière's mother.