Jonathan Bryan jumps into the title role of Mozart's masterpiece with Rapides Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Joshua Zona. 

An immersive opera experience at the Millennium Event Center. ​Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci begins—but you’re inside the world and under the tent. The audience moves within the opera. You're not watching Canio—you can see the sweat on his brow as he spirals into madness. You’re just feet from Nedda and Silvio as they plot their escape in hushed tones. When the performance within the opera begins, you are part of the jeering, laughing crowd—until the laughter stops. This production of Pagliacci marks a bold new chapter in Piedmont Opera’s 49-year history—blending classical opera with site-specific performance to create an event that’s immersive, intimate, and unforgettable. It’s not just a night at the opera. It’s a living opera in a living space

In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by Jenny Melville and Mark Grimmer of 59 Studio.

Dance back in time to the American wild west with Oklahoma!–a classic, feel-good musical that follows the blossoming love story between farm girl Laurey and charming cowboy Curly as they navigate rival suitors and the challenges of frontier life. With unforgettable songs like “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “People Will Say We’re in Love,” the lively “Kansas City,” and of course “Oklahoma!”, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic captures the heartwarming spirit of a community on the brink of change.

Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, the lyrical masterpiece Show Boat explores the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi, in Chicago and on Broadway.

In this immersive pairing, Southern Gothic composer Carlisle Floyd’s great song cycle, Pilgrimage – originally recorded by New Orleans Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle and the New Orleans Symphony – is interwoven with the history of New Orleans jazz, with 8 concerts across 7 venues weaving Floyd’s centennial masterwork with the luminaries of NOLA’s contemporary jazz, funk and contemporary classical scenes, nodding to the city’s annual famed 9 Churches Pilgrimage in alternating concerts from the French Quarter to the Bywater. Bring your own beliefs or none and come walk a mile or two in our musical shoes, and discover how deep the culture of New Orleans music really goes.

A staged performance of Schubert’s masterwork song cycle with a focus on homelessness, isolation, and mental health in partnership with Healthcare for the Homeless, featuring baritone Jonathan Bryan and pianist Lyndsi Maus.

A staged performance of Schubert’s masterwork song cycle with a focus on homelessness, isolation, and mental health in partnership with Healthcare for the Homeless, featuring baritone Jonathan Bryan and pianist Lyndsi Maus.

It’s a long hot summer in Philadelphia, and the Continental Congress is an exhausted, annoyed, and quarrelsome collection of men. John Adams, the passionate crusader, races against time: if the tenets of independence can’t be articulated, General Washington’s painfully outnumbered army will have no ideal for which to fight. But the cantankerous Adams is struggling to assert his arguments and this large group of strong-minded individuals isn’t coming together. They might have a chance if Thomas Jefferson would write a declaration. Under these conditions, how will America ever achieve Independence?

The pirates are celebrating young Frederic’s coming-of-age…but he doesn’t want to be a pirate! Instead, he wants the beautiful maiden Mabel’s hand in marriage and to exterminate his prior piratical patriots. The Pirates of Penzance is a comical farce and classical operetta at its finest.

Prepare for a night of elegance, laughter, and unforgettable music as Inland Northwest Opera brings Johann Strauss II’s beloved operetta, Die Fledermaus, to life on stage September 2026.

Coeur d’Alene native, Madison Leonard, now a Metropolitan Opera artist with international acclaim, returns to her hometown to sing the role of Adele. She will join a cast of artists with nation-wide opera credentials: Shea Owens, Michelle Lange, Johnathan Bryan, Corey Trahan, Andre Chiang, Cody Laun, Tanya Roberts, Nathan Savant, and Laura Beckel Thoreson.

Silent Night is the powerful, true account of the spontaneous Christmas truce between French, British, and German soldiers during World War I. Based on the film “Joyeux Noël,” the story takes place on Christmas Eve, the opposing forces lay down their weapons, come together around a makeshift tree to sing carols, and play soccer matches. The soldiers’ peaceful actions are reprimanded by their commanders, but cast a lasting light on the goodness of humanity in the face of war.