2025 Festival Season

The Opera Festival of Chicago returns with a season of celebration in its fifth season, May 9 – June 29, 2025 at venues across the greater Chicagoland area.

The 2025 Festival, our fifth season, is going to be a season of celebration here at the Opera Festival of Chicago. This organization began forging its path in the opera world in 2021 with the mission of presenting Italian opera masterworks that rarely-if ever grace the stage in the United States. These fully staged productions feature star-studded casts and have included several US and Chicago premiers. This season, which is based on a powerful theme, “Love is a Triangle,” continues the tradition with two Italian masterworks and several concerts.


-Sasha Gerritson, General Director

Pagliacci

The season concludes with one of the pillars of Italian opera and one of the most passionate dramas of all times, Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

Cast: Michelle Allie Drever | Jonathan Burton | Franco Pomponi | Jerek Fernández | Jonathan Wilson

7:30PM, Friday, June 27, 2025
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
9501 Skokie Blvd,
Skokie, IL 60077
Pagliacci

The season concludes with one of the pillars of Italian opera and one of the most passionate dramas of all times, Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

Cast: Michelle Allie Drever | Jonathan Burton | Franco Pomponi | Jerek Fernández | Jonathan Wilson

2:00PM, Sunday, June 29, 2025
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
9501 Skokie Blvd,
Skokie, IL 60077

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