25 | 26 Season
Oct 17, 2025, 7:30pm
Ear Taxi Festival
Ear Taxi Festival, Anchor Performance
The Ear Taxi Festival 2025, themed "The Composer’s Voice," is a landmark event showcasing contemporary concert music across Chicagoland.May 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 2026
Here Be Sirens
by Kate Soper
Here Be Sirens, Kate Soper’s groundbreaking opera, reimagines the myth of the Sirens to explore the archetypes society assigns to women—and how those roles are used to divide rather than empower.
May 31, 2026, 7pm-11pm
Operapalooza II
America's only rock festival featuring opera-fusion projects
It returns! Chicago, home of the (in)famous music festival Lollapalooza, lifts up America's first festival featuring four opera-fusion projects in one unforgettable evening.Recently this Season
Sep 21, 21, 21, 2025
Chicago LIVE! & Season Launch Party
Join us for our season launch party!Sep 17, 21, 2025
Op*erratic
Improv. Opera. Nuff said.
Take six cups of opera singers and mix them with three tablespoons each of recitative, arias, and chorus. Season with audience suggestions as desired. Allow to marinate for twelve weeks. Bake for seventy minutes and serve hot. Feeds forty.Selections from Past Seasons
community |
Sounds of Pride |
opera |
Hindsight |
community |
Sounds of Pride |
opera |
Fizz & Ginger |
opera |
A Christmas Carol |
fundraiser |
Sing, Sip, and Support |
concert |
Chicago Currents Livestream Event |
opera |
Chicago Currents |
community |
Sounds of Pride |
opera |
Come Home |
opera |
La Jetée |
opera |
Two Remain |
concert |
Songs From Letters |
opera |
The Widow's Will |
community |
Sounds of Pride |
opera |
A City of Works |
opera |
Corsair |
opera |
Woyzeck |
opera |
Love Wounds |
concert |
The Rosina Project |
opera |
The Long Christmas Dinner |
concert |
The Rossini Project |
opera |
The Great God Pan |
opera |
As One |
opera |
Lucrezia |
opera |
Song from the Uproar |
opera |
In the Penal Colony |
opera |
The Turn of the Screw |
recital |
Far Off Light |
Supported by The CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture, the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Chicago Fringe Opera is member of Opera America, the nation's advocacy organization for the art form of opera.
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