For centuries, the joy and comedy that clowns bring their audiences have often been fused with the dark underbelly of human emotions - despair, revenge, and rage. Ruggero Leoncavallo's operatic masterpiece Pagliacci does just that and is still widely performed thanks to its timeless, story-telling score. Experience its majesty during Utah Opera's latest production, featuring the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Colaneri, with lyrics projected in English.

Puccini's moving masterpiece of lost love and betrayal, Madama Butterfly, heads to Salt Lake City with a stunning new production by a team made up of all Japanese and Japanese American creative talent, reframing the classic story in a way that blends fantasy and reality. The opera takes you to Nagasaki, where a young Japanese woman must navigate a heart-wrenching and life-altering relationship with an American Naval Officer who misleads her affections.