Now, in its 7th year, Northern Lights Festival Opera is established as one of the cornerstones of the Northern Lights Music Festival, along with its chamber music, solo performance and orchestral offerings.  What began as an effort to involve the community in a wildly successful production of Britten's Noyes Fludde in 2007, led to annual mainstage productions of Carmina Burana, Gianni Schicchi, Hansel and Gretel and Pagliacci.  Music Director Gavriel Heine of St. Petersburg, Russia's Mariinsky Theatre, has led the productions since 2011 and returns this season to launch a new production of Puccini's La boheme.

An international cast and choristers from the region, together with participants of NLMF in the orchestra, will perform La boheme in Aurora, Ely and Chisholm, establishing NLMF Opera in  three cities of the Iron Range. 

 

MEET THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM OF LA BOHÈME

2012 Production of Pagliacci featuring Russian tenor Yevgeny Shapovalov.