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 ...

As Arizona Opera continues its groundbreaking initiative to introduce audiences to new or under-presented but nevertheless worthy works, it has selected Astor Piazzolla's tango opera, MARIA DE BUENOS ...

The recent hiring of Joseph Specter as Arizona Opera’s new general director isn’t the first time in this last year that Phoenix and Austin have shared organizational arts leaders. Last December, the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Joseph Specter is an opera singer turned leader of the ...

Passion, mysticism and a touch of the West West fire up Arizona Opera's stage this season. A love affair with the Southwest kicks off in October with the first major United States opera house premiere ...

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, ...

PHOENIX — The Arizona Opera will be presenting some of the genre’s newest selections at its New Works Festival, taking place from May 10-12. The event will be taking place at the Arizona Opera Center ...

The Arizona Opera Board of Directors has announced the appointment of its new President and General Director, Joseph Specter. Currently the General Director for Austin Opera, Specter successfully led ...

Scott Stallard remembers sitting in the Phoenix audience early last month and getting “goosies” the moment the curtain rose for Arizona Opera’s “Riders of the Purple Sage.” “It was stunning,” Stallard ...

PHOENIX – Opera usually conjures to mind images of a stage, a cast of performers, the sound of booming music and the feeling of a collective audience. So, what happens when those feelings and images ...

Marlu Allan and Scott Stallard of Payson have donated $1 million to Arizona Opera. The Phoenix-based opera company announced the gift on Thursday, April 20. Allan and Stallard are longtime supporters ...

Arizona Opera this week is unveiling a daring new programming model that puts the company’s focus squarely on modern works. Meanwhile, and not coincidentally, the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix ...