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Discover the 2024-25 Season

Since our founding in 1973, in a city where storefront theaters and global icons thrive side by side, Chicago Opera Theater has grown from a grassroots, community-based company to a national leader in an increasingly vibrant, diverse, and forward-looking art form.

Meet our new General Director...

Meet our new General Director...

We believe opera is a living art form.

Chicago  Opera Theater is a company laser-focused on living its values of:

  • expanding the tradition of opera as a living art form and supporting artists who are defining the future of opera;

  • deepening appreciation for the breadth and depth of operatic storytelling by producing works from throughout history that are new to Chicago audiences;

  • increasing access to opera for audiences of all ages;

  • and following through on commitments to equity and access – behind the scenes, on the stage, and in the audience.