2025 repertoire*

*subject to change pending available talent

the aria extravaganza concert

Each season we showcase our singers with a concert of their very best arias. It’s a great way for our company to get acquainted and for our audiences to catch each rising star on the ground floor, the better to marvel at their exponential growth throughout the summer!

Every singer is featured in up to two solo selections.

the mai frances doles memorial opera in concert

Each season Spotlight faculty, students, and guest artists come together to perform a major work and raise money for our scholarship program, ensuring affordable quality training for the stars of tomorrow. Past repertoire includes Verdi’s Aida and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, which was presented with orchestra for the first time in Spotlight history. In 2025, we are excited to present Puccini’s epic Tosca!

TOURING CHILDREN’S oPERA

Our popular children’s operas tour the region, visiting libraries, art galleries, museums, hospitals, church schools, and organizations like Community Renewals’ Friendship Houses. In 2025, we present The Hiding Tree, a Micronesian folk tale about the bravery and love of a young girl who outwits a monster to save her sister. Bookings for the Summer 2025 tour will begin soon! Stay tuned for details on how to bring a delightful performance to your neighborhood.

la traviata

The dazzling young courtesan Violetta Valery is the toast of Paris —- but her pale beauty hides a devastating secret, and even the ardent love of Alfredo Germont cannot save her. Filled with timeless favorites from Verdi’s brilliant score, including the famous Brindisi and “Sempre libera,” Violetta’s bravura toast to a carefree life of gaeity, Germont’s fatherly plea “Di provenza”, and so much more. Sung in Italian with supertitles.

cavalleria rusticana

In a small Sicilian village, honor is everything, and when honor is lost — or stolen — there’s always a price to pay. When Santuzza’s lover, Turiddu, abandons her for a married woman, she desperately tries to win him back. But if she can’t have his love, she will at least have satisfaction. Mascagni’s masterful score once beat Puccini in a competition, and it’s no wonder, with the famous Intermezzo, the heartbreaking “Voi che sapete, o mamma,” the cheerful Brindisi “Viva il vino spumigante,” and Turiddu’s desperate farewell, “Mamma, quel vino è generoso.” Sung in Italian with supertitles.