In recent years, the concert hall has affirmed itself as a major frontier of operatic innovation. From expanding the capacities of multimedia in performance to pushing the boundaries of gender through vocal expression, concert halls today are challenging all established conventions of opera and keeping pace with societal change.

To support this evolution, Wise Music Group is pleased to present a selection of essential operas from the past 100 years, well-suited to a concert or semi-staged format. These works celebrate literary classics and influential historical figures; participate in discourses of race, gender, and sexuality; and explore the ways in which we find hope and connection even in the darkest of times.

Explore Operas in Concert

Art’s Afterlives | Feminist Essays | Casting Off Chains: Abolition and the Civil War | The Americas: Latine Culture and History | East Asian Love Stories | Positively Medieval: Stories of the Middle Ages and Renaissance | Classics of English Fiction | The 19th Century: Great Wars and Colonial Sorrows | Upheavals of the 20th Century | The Weight of Motherhood