2024 - 2025
Our 30th Anniversary Season

In a monumental season, Opera Lafayette asks, “who owns culture?”, co-presents the most important opera never heard, and celebrates a visionary.
Join us for our best season yet…

WINTER 2025

The most important opera never heard.
The first complete opera by a Black American has been hidden in a single, handwritten manuscript for over 130 years. Experience the world-premiere of this four-act French grand opera on themes from
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves.

Spring 2025

Celebrating a visionary.
Maestro Brown has built Opera Lafayette into a major cultural force, celebrated from the American shores all the way to the theatre at Versailles. This concert will focus on the music, the musicians, and the composers that Ryan Brown has championed and elevated during his 30-year tenure as Artistic Director.

previous performances this season:

Fall 2024

Who owns culture?
This groundbreaking program seeks to examine the question of “who owns culture?” through a two-part music and dance exploration.