Tina Tammaro’s artwork will be on display at Music Hall’s Founders Room during Cincinnati Opera’s 2025 Summer Festival. Inspired by the emotion and drama of opera, her intuitive, layered paintings explore themes like power, identity, and connection. Each piece invites viewers to look deeper, revealing new meaning with every glance—much like an aria told on canvas.

Fiddler on the Roof brought beloved Yiddish stories to Broadway, celebrating Jewish culture while exploring universal themes of tradition and change. Its heartfelt music and timeless struggles keep audiences connected across generations and cultures. Decades later, it remains a powerful story of identity, resilience, and belonging.

Puccini’s Tosca tells a familiar story of love, jealousy, and villainy set against political oppression. But beyond tragedy, it reveals a heroine who fights for agency in a brutal world. Its timeless themes and powerful music keep audiences coming back—finding new meaning in a story we think we know.

Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto is a powerful opera built on contrasts—between light-hearted melodies and dark moral truths, personal loyalty and systemic cruelty, and justice and futility. At its center is Rigoletto, a jester trapped in moral compromise, whose attempt to shield his daughter ends in heartbreak. This enduring opera invites audiences to wrestle with uncomfortable truths beneath its beautiful music. Read more about Rigoletto here.