Access to opera can sometimes feel out of reach, especially for audience members with diverse abilities and accommodation needs. Cincinnati Opera strives to change that with its second annual Access Night at the Opera, on Saturday, June 15, with its season-opening production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Amid Cincinnati's diverse cultural landscape, Cincinnati Opera Young Professionals (COYP) is turning heads with its dynamic approach to arts engagement.
Soprano Kathryn Lewek and tenor Zach Borichevsky are not only international opera stars; they're married in real life and starring in Cincinnati Opera's 2026 production of Richard Strauss's Salome. Get to know these artists and their approach to pursuing opera careers alongside partnership and parenting.
The journey of an opera from ideation to production is rarely, if ever, linear. In the case of Salome, Richard Strauss’s electrifying tragedy, the story that began with an unnamed character in the Bible—referred to only as “the daughter of Herodias”—passed through many hands before arriving as a fully-formed opera.
