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The 2022/23 Season Performances:
Ariadne auf Naxos
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Time: 7 PM
Location: Herberger Theater Center
Rating: PG
Language: Performed in German with English and Spanish supertitles
Length: 2 hours and 36 minutes, including 1 intermission
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Arizona Opera is delighted to at last present this Strauss masterpiece, which comes to the stage after its planned performances in Spring 2020, which were delayed due to the pandemic. Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera within an opera - a satirical farce that combines sublime music with hilarious antics.
Tosca
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Time: 7 PM
Location: Symphony Hall, Phoenix
Rating: PG-13 (for sensitive material, including violence and death)
Language: Performed in Italian with English and Spanish supertitles
Length: 2 hours, 34 minutes with two intermissions: one 25-minute intermission and one 20-minute intermission
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A political thriller, set in Rome in June 1800, Tosca tells a story of passionate, yet tender love, jealousy, betrayal, lust, and self-sacrifice. Tosca’s action takes place over a span of less than 24 hours during the Napoleonic wars and amidst great political unrest, making it one of the most dramatic thrill rides in opera.
The Sound of Music
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Time: 7 PM
Location: Symphony Hall, Phoenix
Rating: PG
Language: Performed in English with English and Spanish supertitles
Length: 2 hours and 54 minutes, including one intermission
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Fall in love all over again with this timeless classic! A wonderful opportunity to bring the entire family to Arizona Opera and experience familiar favorites and beloved characters. This treasured musical is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, and set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938. The Sound of Music tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun.
The Magic Flute
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Time: 7 PM
Location: Symphony Hall, Phoenix
Rating: PG
Language: Performed in German with English and Spanish supertitles
Length: 2 hours and 30 minutes
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Mozart’s beloved classic, The Magic Flute, is a fairytale of darkness and light, which explores the journey in search of truth and reason, love and enlightenment.
As the action unfolds, Tamino, a prince lost in a foreign land, is pursued by a terrifying monster. He is rescued by three mysterious ladies, who kill the monster and give Tamino a picture of Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, with whom he falls instantly in love. They tell him that Pamina has been captured by the powerful and evil Sarastro, and Tamino vows to rescue her.