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2026/27 Season Book Selections:

A History of OperaAnxious PeoplePuss in BootsThe Importance of Being Earnest The Age of Innocence

 

Summer Book Club

A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker
Phoenix: August 18 | Arizona Opera Center

 

Scalia/Ginsburg: An Opera by Derrick Wang

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Phoenix: September 15 | Arizona Opera Center
Tucson: October 2 | Location TBD

 

El Gato con Botas

Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault
Phoenix: October 27 | Arizona Opera Center
Tucson: November 13 | Location TBD

 

The Pirates of Penzance

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Phoenix: January 19 | Arizona Opera Center
Tucson: February 5 | Location TBD

 

La Traviata

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Phoenix: February 23 | Arizona Opera Center
Tucson: March 12 | Location TBD

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Need another page-turner? 

Explore these recommendations from staff and Book Club members.

Scalia/Ginsburg: An Opera by Derrick Wang

  • Paired Reading: Scalia Speaks by Antonin Scalia & My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Listening to the Law by Amy Coney Barrett
  • Sisters in Law by Linda Hirshman
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

El Gato con Botas

  • The List of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
  • Starter Villain by John Scalzi 

The Pirates of Penzance

  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Gilbert & Sullivan Biographies 

La traviata

  • The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils
  • Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Thank you to our Book Club Partners!

 

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Arizona Opera’s NextGen programs are made possible, in part, thanks to generous support from: Ted Stephan Teaching Artist Endowment Fund, Drs. Herschel and Jill* Rosenzweig, The Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation, Molly Blank Fund, Jeannette Segel, SRP, Invest in Kids Charitable Gift Fund, The H.S. Lopez Family Foundation, APS, A gift in memory of Elsa Reichenbach, The Arizona Republic, Marlu Allan & Scott Stallard*, City of Peoria, First Western Trust, The Krumholz Foundation, Desert Diamond Casino, Jim Click Automotive, and a consortium of individual donors.