Kick off Opera Omaha’s new season with a free concert at Turner Park! Grab your lawn-chairs and blankets and find a spot on the green before the concert begins at 7 p.m. Before then, there will be a Kids Zone starting at 5:30 p.m.

Opera Outdoors will feature live performances by special guests Meghan Kasanders, Taylor Raven, Edward Graves, Hayden Samuel Smith, and the Opera Omaha Chorus, comprised of local artists. Opera Outdoors will be conducted by Opera Omaha’s Head of Music, Josh Quinn and directed by Kayley Karis Smith with lighting by Aaron Craig, and will be hosted by KVNO personalities Gabriel Escalera and Alison Jay.

Before the concert begins groups from Ollie Webb Center Inc. Art of Imagination, the Gotta Be Me Heartlight Choir, and the Intercultural Senior Center will perform as opening acts beginning at 7:00 PM.

The opera program will include selections composed by opera greats Rossini, Bernstein, Puccini as well as others and features many familiar and new songs from the opera canon.

If there is rain the concert will be moved to the following day, September 6.