Buy Tickets For the 21-22
Re-Season
As we move towards and through the 21-22 Re-Season, togetherness has so much more meaning and impact.
Shifting how we view the pieces originally planned for 2020-21 is exactly what makes opera interesting. We can tell different stories because our context has changed, and our shared experience and world view has shifted. We’ve been reframing great operas that way for hundreds of years. It’s why we exist and will continue to thrill audiences with exciting interpretations of beloved stories.
Let’s reconvene as the magic replaces the ghost light on stage, and we take our places, once again. Recommit to opera and to the Florentine with us, as we step into the lights and joyfully lift our voices for you. We can’t wait to see you in the seats.
| Image | Show Date | Name | Description | Series | Button |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | October 8 & 10, 2021 | Rigoletto | If you love catchy tunes like “La donna e mobile”, chorus and melodrama, this is for you. Artistic Advisor Francesco Milioto (Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera) debuts at the Florentine in this traditional production with a modern touch. Victor Hugo’s play inspired this early Verdi masterpiece. | Mainstage | Details |
 | November 19 & 20, 2021 | Quartet X 2 | Showcasing our Baumgartner Studio Artists and some of Milwaukee’s top chamber music talent, this program explores intimate repertoire for voice and strings. From the plaintive sound of a single voice intertwined with a violin to the richness of all eight performers together, this experience will make your heart thrum with music from many eras and geography. | Florentine Presents | Details |
 | December 10 & 11 & 14, 2021 | Carols and Classics | Join us for a joyful and reflective celebration of the season through timeless Christmas music from around the world! | Florentine Presents | Details |
 | January 20, 2022 | Rowan Pierce (Bridgerton) | While actress Siena Rosso is seen on-screen, meet the operatic voice behind the scenes featured on the smash Netflix hit, Bridgerton! Rising British soprano Rowan Pierce has a string of successes that includes awards from HRH the Prince of Wales and performances at the Edinburgh Festival, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and as part of the BBC Proms. Join us for a program of this young rising star’s choosing, and hear the voice that thrilled the characters in our new guilty pleasure. | Spotlight | Details |
 | February 11 & 13, 2022 | Zarzuela! Luisa Fernanda | Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, with operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. Considered one of the top zarzuelas ever written, the romantic Luisa Fernanda has been performed more than 10,000 times worldwide. | Mainstage | Details |
 | March 11 & 13 & 18 & 20, 2022 | French Double Bill | Made for adults, and kid-friendly, this Florentine double premier is a beautiful retelling of Cinderella, followed by a mischievous child’s magical world coming to life. If you love the films Amelie and Beauty and the Beast, this sparkly short, sophisticated and quirky pairing will delight. | Mainstage | Details |
 | April 8 & 9, 2022 | Descent Into Madness | Melancholy, histeria, insanity, depression, blinding rage or euphoria - every era of opera from Early Modern to Bel Canto/Romantic and today has explored and expressed psyches pushed to the edge. Whether Don Quixote or Adina, composers gave voice to these moments of madness. The Baumgartner Studio Artists explore these extremes in song. | Florentine Presents | Details |
 | April 20, 2022 | Vivica Genaux & Jory Vinikour | Performing Baroque gems on harpsichord, “Vinikour makes a concert an experience, in the very best sense of the word. His playing excites the ear.” Conducting The Coronation of Poppea in 2019 for the Florentine, he delighted the audience with his musicality. Vinikour and internationally recognized Genaux blaze their way through virtuosic and beloved Baroque repertoire. | Spotlight | Details |
 | May 6 & 8, 2022 | Bronzeville La Boheme | Experience one of the most beloved romances ever written, now set in 1940s post-war Bronzeville. Luxuriate in the lush movie music as a team of all-stars tell this double love story and bromance in a fresh way. Enjoy stage art created by 2019 Nohl Fellowship winner Ras ‘Ammar Nsoroma. Bronzeville expert and dramaturg Sheri Williams Pannell who helps us explore this thriving-again city within our city, and the artists and citizens who built it. | Mainstage | Details |
Mainstage: Rigoletto
If you love catchy tunes like “La donna e mobile”, chorus and melodrama, this is for you. Artistic Advisor Francesco Milioto (Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera) debuts at the Florentine in this traditional production with a modern touch. Victor Hugo’s play inspired this early Verdi masterpiece.
October 8 & 10, 2021
FLORENTINE PRESENTS: Quartet x 2
Showcasing our Baumgartner Studio Artists and some of Milwaukee’s top chamber music talent, this program explores intimate repertoire for voice and strings. From the plaintive sound of a single voice intertwined with a violin to the richness of all eight performers together, this experience will make your heart thrum with music from many eras and geography.
November 19, 2021 - Wayne + Kristine Lueders Opera Center
November 20, 2021 - Wayne + Kristine Lueders Opera Center
FLORENTINE PRESENTS: Carols & Classics
Join us for a joyful and reflective celebration of the season through timeless Christmas music from around the world!
December 10, 2021 - Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Performing Arts
December 11, 2021 - Wayne + Kristine Lueders Opera Center
December 14, 2021 - St. Paul’s Church
Spotlight: Rowan Pierce (Bridgerton)
While actress Siena Rosso is seen on-screen, meet the operatic voice behind the scenes featured on the smash Netflix hit, Bridgerton! Rising British soprano Rowan Pierce has a string of successes that includes awards from HRH the Prince of Wales and performances at the Edinburgh Festival, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and as part of the BBC Proms. Join us for a program of this young rising star’s choosing, and hear the voice that thrilled the characters in our new guilty pleasure.
January 20, 2022
MAINSTAGE: Zarzuela! Luisa Fernanda
Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, with operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. Considered one of the top zarzuelas ever written, the romantic Luisa Fernanda has been performed more than 10,000 times worldwide.
February 11 & 13, 2022
MAINSTAGE: French Double Bill
Made for adults, and kid-friendly, this Florentine double premier is a beautiful retelling of Cinderella, followed by a mischievous child’s magical world coming to life. If you love the films Amelie and Beauty and the Beast, this sparkly short, sophisticated and quirky pairing will delight.
March 11, 13, 18 & 20 2022
Florentine Presents: Descent into Madness
Melancholy, histeria, insanity, depression, blinding rage or euphoria - every era of opera from Early Modern to Bel Canto/Romantic and today has explored and expressed psyches pushed to the edge. Whether Don Quixote or Adina, composers gave voice to these moments of madness. The Baumgartner Studio Artists explore these extremes in song.
April 8, 2022 - Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Performing Arts
April 9, 2022 - Wayne + Kristine Lueders Opera Center
Spotlight: Vivica Genaux & Jory Vinikour
Performing Baroque gems on harpsichord, “Vinikour makes a concert an experience, in the very best sense of the word. His playing excites the ear.” Conducting The Coronation of Poppea in 2019 for the Florentine, he delighted the audience with his musicality. Vinikour and internationally recognized Genaux blaze their way through virtuosic and beloved Baroque repertoire.
April 20, 2022
MainStage: Bronzeville La Boheme
Experience one of the most beloved romances ever written, now set in 1940s post-war Bronzeville. Luxuriate in the lush movie music as a team of all-stars tell this double love story and bromance in a fresh way. Enjoy stage art created by 2019 Nohl Fellowship winner Ras ‘Ammar Nsoroma. Bronzeville expert and dramaturg Sheri Williams Pannell who helps us explore this thriving-again city within our city, and the artists and citizens who built it.
May 6 & 8, 2022