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2024-2025 Season: 50th Anniversary
  • Opera in the Park
  • The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
  • 50th Anniversary Legacy Opera Gala​
  • West Side Story (Bernstein)

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2023-2024 Season
  • Opera in the Park
  • Carmen (Bizet)
  • Charlie Parker's Yardbird (Daniel Schnyder)
                  * Indiana Premiere 
  • A Little Night Music ​(Sondheim) ​

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2022-2023 Season
  • Opera in the Park
  • Tosca (Puccini)
  • Gallantry and Veteran Journeys (Douglas Moore and Dr. Kenneth B. Wells)​
  • The Magic Flute (Mozart)

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​2021-2022 Season
  • Opera in the Park
  • Don Giovanni (Mozart)
  • Brundibar & Vedem (Hans Krasa and Lori Laitman)​
             * World Premiere Double Bill * First female composer to be featured on mainstage
  • Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

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​2020-2021 Season
  • Opera in the Park
  • Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
             *Opera at the Zoo Debut

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​2019-2020 Season
  • Opera in the Park
  • The Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
  • Don Giovanni (Mozart) - on-demand dress rehearsal

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​2018-2019 Season
  • ​Opera in the Park
                      *Garfield Park Debut
  • La Bohème (Puccini)
  • Indianapolis Opera ​Chorus in Concert
  • Camelot (Lerner & Loewe)

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​2017-2018 Season
  • ​La Traviata 
               *a co-production with the Evansville Philharmonic (Verdi)
  • Indianapolis Opera ​Chorus in Concert
  • ​South Pacific (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

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​2016-2017 Season
  • Happy Birthday Wanda June 
​            *World Premiere (Richard Auldon Clark)
  • Barber of Seville (Rossini)
  • Man of La Mancha (Mitch Leigh)

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​2015-2016 Season
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Michael Nyman)
  • Opera's Rising Stars 
                *With Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra
  • Mansfield Park (Dove/Middleton)
  • Crescendo (Indianapolis Opera)

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​2013-2014 Season
  • The Threepenny Opera (Weill/Brecht)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
  • La Fanciulla del West (Puccini) 

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​2012-2013 Season
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
  • Akhnaten (Glass)
  • The Flying Dutchman (Wagner) 

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​2011-2012 Season
  • Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
  • Bon Appetit (Hoiby)
  • A Water Bird Talk (Argento)
  • Opera Goes to the Movies (Various Artists)
  • Faust (Gounod)

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​2010-2011 Season
  • The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)
  • La Tragedie de Carmen (Brook)
  • La Traviata (Verdi)

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​2009-2010 Season
  • Ariadne Auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
  • La Bohème (Puccini)

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​2008-2009 Season
  • Il Trovatore (Verdi)
  • Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
  • The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
  • Das Rheingold (Wagner)

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​2007-2008 Season
  • The Magic Flute (Mozart)
  • Tosca (Puccini)
  • The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)

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​2006-2007 Season
  • Carmen (Bizet)
  • The Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti)
  • Falstaff (Verdi)

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​2005-2006 Season
  • The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
  • The Merry Widow (Lehár)
  • The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
  • Turandot (Puccini)

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​2004-2005 Season
  • The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
  • Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
  • The Crucible (Ward)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)

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​2003-2004 Season
  • Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
  • The Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
  • Così fan tutte (Mozart)
  • Rigoletto (Verdi)

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​2002-2003 Season
  • La Traviata (Verdi)
  • Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
  • Werther (Massenet)
  • La Bohème (Puccini) 

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​2001-2002 Season
  • Aïda (Verdi)
  • Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
  • Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
  • Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns

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​2000-2001 Season
  • Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
  • The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore)
  • Don Giovanni (Mozart)
  • Il Trovatore (Verdi)

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​1999-2000 Season
  • Tosca (Puccini)
  • Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
  • Susannah (Floyd)
  • Faust (Gounod)

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​1998-1999 Season
  • The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
  • The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
  • Gianni Schicchi/Buoso’s Ghost (Puccini/Ching)
  • Macbeth (Verdi)

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​1997-1998 Season
  • The Magic Flute (Mozart)
  • The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky)
  • La Cenerentola (Rossini)
  • Carmen (Bizet)

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​1996-1997 Season
  • Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
  • Otello (Verdi)

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​1995-1996 Season
  • La Traviata (Verdi)
  • Così fan tutte (Mozart)
  • Madama Butterfly (Puccini)

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​1994-1995 Season
  • Rigoletto (Verdi)
  • The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
  • La Bohème (Puccini)

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​1993-1994 Season
  • Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns)
  • Tosca (Puccini)
  • The Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
  • The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore)

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​1992-1993 Season
  • Il Trovatore (Verdi)
  • The Merry Widow (Lehár)
  • Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
  • The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

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​1991-1992 Season
  • Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
  • Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
  • Così fan tutte (Mozart)

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​1990-1991 Season
  • The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
  • Don Giovanni (Mozart)
  • Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck)
  • Faust (Gounod)

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​1989-1990 Season
  • The Magic Flute (Mozart)
  • Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
  • Don Carlo (Verdi)
  • Man of La Mancha (Leigh)

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​1988-1999 Season
  • La Traviata (Verdi)
  • Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck)
  • The Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti)

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​1987-1988 Season
  • Rigoletto (Verdi)
  • The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
  • The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)

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​1986-1987 Season
  • Carmen (Bizet)
  • Tosca (Puccini)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)​ ​

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​1985-1986 Season
  • La Bohème (Puccini)
  • Concert Grande
  • Falstaff (Verdi)

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​1984-1985 Season
  • Aïda (Verdi)
  • The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
  • The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)

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​1983-1984
  • Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
  • Otello (Verdi)
  • Faust (Gounod)

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​1982-1983 Season
  • Il Trovatore (Verdi)
  • The Magic Flute (Mozart)
  • The Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
  • H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert & Sullivan)

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​1981-1982 Season
  • Madama Butterfly (Puccini)

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​1980-1981 Season
  • Aïda (Verdi)
  • The Barber of Seville (Rossini)​

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​1979-1980 Season
  • La Bohème (Puccini)
  • Carmen (Bizet)
  • Rigoletto (Verdi)
  • Candide (Bernstein)

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​1978-1979 Season
  • Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
  • La Traviata (Verdi)
  • The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
  • Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz)

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​1977-1998 Season
  • The Telephone (Menotti)
  • The Impresario (Mozart)

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​1976-1977 Season
  • The Wise Woman (Orff)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
  • Carmen (Bizet)

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​1975-1976 Season
  • The Telephone (Menotti)
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster (Moore)

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