Now in our 20th Season, Connecticut Lyric Opera is the only full-season professional opera company in CT. From the standards such as La Boheme, La Traviata, Carmen and Le Nozze di Figaro, to lesser performed but no less wonderful operas like Otello, Eugene Onegin, Faust and Susannah, CLO’s Artistic Director Adrian Sylveen creates “moments of opera magic” with every new production.
Since the company’s founding, productions have been performed in New London and in New Britain, with additional Waterbury and Middletown performances beginning in 2009, and Hartford performances beginning in 2014. Our performance history in descending order:
2022-2023 Season (Season 19)
May 2023 – Don Giovanni, W. A. Mozart
Nov. 2022 – Tosca, G. Puccini
2021-2022 Season (Season 18)
May 2022 – Giulio Cesare, G. Handel
Mar. 2022 – La Liberazione di Ruggiero, F. Caccini
Jan. 2022 – Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II
Nov. 2021 – La Boheme, G. Puccini
2020-2021 Season (COVID)
2019-2020 Season (Season 17)
Oct. 2019 – The Emperor of Atlantis, V. Ullman
Nov. 2019 – Carmen, G. Bizet
2018-2019 Season (Season 16)
May 2019 – Don Carlo, G. Verdi
Mar. 2019 – The Emperor of Atlantis, V. Ullman
Nov. 2018 – Carmen, G. Bizet
2017-2018 Season (Season 15)
Aug. 2018 – Giulio Cesare, G. F. Handel
May 2018 – Aida, G. Verdi
Apr. 2018 – The Emperor of Atlantis, V. Ullman
(Performed in Israel with Israel Chamber Orchestra)
Nov. 2017 – Le Nozze di Figaro, W. A. Mozart
2016-2017 Season (Season 14)
Aug. 2017 – Dido and Aeneas, H. Purcell
May 2017 – Tosca, G. Puccini
Nov. 2016 – Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky
2015-2016 Season (Season 13)
May 2016 – Rigoletto, G. Puccini
Feb. 2016 – Faust, C. Gounod
Nov. 2015 – Le Nozze di Figaro, W. A. Mozart
2014-2015 Season (Season 12)
May 2015 – La Boheme, G. Puccini
Feb. – Mar. 2015 – Il barbiere di Siviglia, G. Rossini
Nov. – Dec. 2014 – Der Rosenkavalier, R. Strauss
2013-2014 Season (Season 11)
May 2014 – Madama Butterfly, G. Puccini
Jan. – Feb. 2014 – Der Kaiser von Atlantis, V. Ullmann
Nov. 2013 – Der fliegende Holländer, R. Wagner
2012-2013 Season (Season 10)
May 2013 – Don Giovanni, W. A. Mozart
April 2013 – Requiem, G. Verdi
Feb. 2013 – Maria de Buenos Aires, A. Piazzola
Oct. – Nov. 2012 – Carmen, G. Bizet
2011-2012 Season (Season 9)
May 2012 – Otello, G. Verdi
Mar. 2012 – Cosi fan Tutte, W. A. Mozart
Nov. 2011 – Les Contes d’Hoffmann, J. Offenbach
2010-2011 Season (Season 8)
May, 2011 – Tosca, G. Puccini
Dec. 2010 – New Year’s Concerts
Nov. 2010 – Die Zauberflöte, W. A. Mozart
2009-2010 Season (Season 7)
Apr. – May 2010 – I Pagliacci, R. Leoncavallo and Gianni Schicchi, G. Puccini
Jan. 2010 – New Year’s Concert
Nov. – Dec. 2009 – L’Elisir d’Amore, G. Donezetti
2008-2009 Season (Season 6)
Apr. 2009 – La Traviata, G. Verdi
Nov. 2008 – Eugene Onegin, P. I. Tchaikovsky
Oct. 2008 – Coffee Cantata, J. S. Bach
2007-2008 Season (Season 5)
Apr. 2008 – Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II
Feb. 2008 – Dido & Aeneas, H. Purcell
Nov. 2007 – La Boheme, G. Puccini
Oct. 2007 – Hansel & Gretel, E. Humperdinck
2006-2007 Season (Season 4)
Apr. 2007 – Romeo et Juliette, Ch. Gounod
Feb. 2007 – Requiem, Faure and Exsultate Jubilate, W. A. Mozart
Nov. 2006 – Le Nozze di Figaro, W. A. Mozart
Sept. 2006 – The Magic Flute, W. A. Mozart
2005-2006 Season (Season 3)
Apr. 2006 – Don Giovanni, W. A. Mozart
Feb. 2006 – An Evening of Bach Cantatas, J. S. Bach
Nov. 2005 – Rigoletto, G. Verdi
Sept. 2005 – The Magic Flute, W. A. Mozart
2004 – 2005 Season (Season 2)
May 2005 – The Merry Widow, F. Lehar
Feb. 2005 – Faust, Ch. Gounod
Oct. 2004 – Two Nations, One Love at Carnegie Hall
2003 – 2004 Season (Season 1)
Jul. 2004 – Il Barbiere di Siviglia, G. Rossini
Apr. 2004 – Carmen, G. Bizet
Jan. 2004 – Inaugural Concert
Other performances include a piano accompanied Susannah by Carlisle Floyd in July 2007, and two years of Chamber Music Mystic festival – the first year (Aug. 2006) as the presenting organization, the next (Aug. 2007) jointly with Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.