Zorro
2025-04-25 19:30, 2025-04-27 14:00, 2025-05-02 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The California Theatre, 345 S 1st St,, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
Opera San José presents the Northern California premiere of Héctor Armienta’s Zorro. The famed masked vigilante comes alive in this swashbuckling opera filled with romance, humor, and suspense. Set in the early 1800s in el pueblo de Los Angeles, still a colony of Spain, this thrilling new work follows the adventures of the Spanish nobleman who hides his true identity behind a black mask to become Zorro, the dashing defender of the poor and enslaved. With a lush score influenced by mariachi, flamenco, and corrido music, Zorro leaps into dashing sword fights and passionate romance while battling tyranny and corruption and defending California’s disenfranchised and indigenous peoples. Latino stage director David Radamés Toro makes his OSJ debut.

Zorro
2025-04-25 19:30, 2025-04-27 14:00, 2025-05-02 19:30, 2025-05-04 14:00

The Singers' Academy- Week of July 21-26, 2025
2025-07-21 - 2025-07-26 | Opera San José Headquarters, 2149 Paragon Drive, San Jose, CA, 95131, United States
This summer, The Singers’ Academy at Opera San José offers an immersive training experience designed for high school students ages 14 – 18 looking to refine their vocal technique and stage presence. Held in the Heiman Digital Studio at Opera San José, the program provides expert coaching, masterclasses, and performance opportunities led by esteemed industry professionals. Through hands-on training and mentorship, participants will develop their artistic expression in a supportive and inspiring environment.
This Academy is designed to give aspiring artists a springboard to the next level: whether that’s applying for colleges, auditioning professionally, snagging the lead in the next school production, or becoming the next YouTube sensation.
Please review the Participation and Liability Agreement before registering.

Così fan tutte
2025-09-14 14:00, 2025-09-19 19:30, 2025-09-21 14:00, 2025-09-26 19:30, 2025-09-28 14:00
Mozart’s comedy about the perils of attraction, fidelity, and compatibility returns to the California Theatre to open our 42nd season! When the cynical Don Alfonso wagers to two young lovers that their devoted girlfriends will cheat on them by the end of the day, they swaggeringly take him up on the offer. Who will come out on top, and what secrets of love will be revealed? With an all-star cast including Ricardo José Rivera as Guglielmo & Dale Travis as Don Alfonso, this is one show you do not want to miss! International tenor sensation Alek Shrader makes his OSJ directorial debut with Music Director Maestro Joseph Marcheso.

Madam Butterfly
2025-11-16 14:00, 2025-11-21 19:30, 2025-11-23 14:00, 2025-11-29 19:30, 2025-11-30 14:00
Puccini’s world-famous opera Madama Butterfly takes center stage this November. A dashing American officer marries a young geisha, and she gives up everything for love. Puccini’s soaring music follows her as she waits, dreaming of the day he’ll meet their child. But his return brings a devastating twist in this story of passion, betrayal, and heartbreak. César Delgado returns to Opera San José as the dashing yet unfaithful Pinkerton, with Emily Jensen making her Opera San José debut as the young Cio-cio San. Former Director in Residence Michelle Cuizon returns to OSJ to direct with Music Director Maestro Joseph Marcheso conducting.

Madama Butterfly
2025-11-16 14:00, 2025-11-21 19:30, 2025-11-23 14:00, 2025-11-29 19:30, 2025-11-30 14:00

Cavalleria Rusticana | Pagliacci
2026-02-15 14:00, 2026-02-20 19:30, 2026-02-22 14:00, 2026-02-27 19:30, 2026-03-01 14:00
Opera’s iconic double bill—Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci—brings timeless tales of love, jealousy, honor, infidelity, and murder to San José in February 2026. Filled with some of the most recognizable music of all time, including Cavalleria’s intermezzo and the haunting ‘Vesti la Giubba’ from Pagliacci, showcasing Italian Versimo at its best. Maria Natale makes a powerful return to Opera San José as the passionate Santuzza, joined by audience favorite Kidon Choi, who brings intensity and heart to the role of Tonio. Celebrated composer Alma Deutscher returns to conduct with Opera San José CEO and General Director Shawna Lucey directing this landmark production.

La Traviata
2026-04-19 14:00
Our season concludes with Verdi’s tragic love story, La Traviata. The scandalous love affair between the courtesan Violetta Valery and the young gentleman Alfredo Germont threatens to tear the fabric of the Parisian social order apart. Set during the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this glittering production brings us into the heart of French society and makes us a bystander to one of the greatest and saddest love stories of all time. Mikayla Sager, most recently seen as one of our Mimìs in La Bohème, returns as the lovestruck courtesan with Former Artist-in-Residence WooYoung Yoon as her young lover. Former Conductor in Residence Johannes Löhner returns to make his principal conducting debut for Opera San José with inaugural Director-in-Residence Tara Branham returning to direct.
