Since 1985, BOU has performed favorites from the operatic canon, world premieres, boundary-bending concerts, and nearly everything in between! Explore our legacy of opera in Western New York.

2024-2025 Season

Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) at Buffalo State University
Opera on Tap at Resurgence Brewing Company
Joshua’s Boots (Hailstork) at First Shiloh Baptist Church

2023-2024 Season

La Bohème (Puccini) at Buffalo State University
Speed Dating Tonight! (Ching) at Resurgence Brewing Company
Three Decembers (Heggie) at Shea’s Smith Theater

2022-2023 Season

Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) at Buffalo State University
The Medium (Menotti) at Buffalo State University
The Telephone (Menotti) at Buffalo State University

2021-2022 Season

Carmen (Bizet) at Buffalo State University
Spotlight on Black Composers at Buffalo State University

2020-2021 (Virtual) Season

Susannah (Floyd) televised on WNED-TV
On Stage with BOU televised on WNED-TV
presented in partnership with Buffalo Toronto Public Media

Previous Seasons

2019 Season
L’elisir d’Amore (Donizetti)at Buffalo State University
La Cenerentola (Rossini) at Buffalo State University
2018 Season
Salute to Leonard Bernstein at Shea’s 710 Theater
Silent Night (Puts) at Buffalo State University
2017 Season
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)at Buffalo State University
The Magic Flute (Mozart) at Buffalo State University
2016 Season
The Fall of Stag Lee (Nettles)at Buffalo State University (world premiere)
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) at Buffalo State University
2015 Season
Così fan Tutte (Mozart)at UB Center for the Arts
Salute to Duke Ellington at Shea’s 710 Theater (with George Caldwell Quintet)
2014 Season
Blue Monday (Gershwin)at Shea’s 710 Theater
The Fall of Stag Lee (Nettles) at Shea’s 710 Theater
The Impresario and Other Favorites (Mozart) at Shea’s 710 Theater
2013 Season
An Afternoon of Sacred Jazz at St. Pauls’ Lutheran Church & Orchard Park Presbyterian Church
Viva Verdi! at Buffalo State University
2012 Season
Faust (Gounod) at Buffalo State University
Celebrating Diversity: Songs of African-American Composers at Westminster Presbyterian Church and Niagara Arts and Cultural Center
2011 Season
An Afternoon of Love Songs at Niagara Arts and Cultural Center
A Tribute to William Grant Still at UB Center for the Arts
Sacred Jazz at Niagara Arts and Cultural Center
2008 Season
Sacred Jazz at Westminster Presbyterian Church
2007 Season
The Merry Widow (Lehar) at Buffalo State University
God’s Trombones (James Weldon Johnson) at Westminster Presbyterian Church
2006 Season
Totally Mozart at The Church
2005 Season
The Genius of Cole Porter at Buffalo State University
2004 Season
Cosi fan Tutte at Buffalo State College
2003 Season
An evening of Bernstein at the Riviera Theater
La Traviata (Verdi) at Buffalo State College
2000 Season
Tosca (Puccini) at Buffalo State University
La Traviata (Verdi) at Buffalo State College
Sacred Jazz at Westminster Presbyterian Church
1991
Susannah (Floyd) at Lancaster Opera House
An Evening of Mozart at Lancaster Opera House
1992
A Rossini Experiment: Scenes from the Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola at Lancaster Opera House
1993
Faust (Gounod) at Buffalo State University
Scenes from Porgy and Bess and Other Songs (Gershwin) at Lancaster Opera House
1994
Don Giovanni (Mozart) at Lancaster Opera House
Duke Ellington with the Al Tinney Trio at Lancaster Opera House
1996
La Bohème (Puccini) at Lancaster Opera House
1997
A Schubertiad for the 200th anniversary of his birth at the Historical Society
Lieder and Liebeslieder (Brahms) marking the 100th anniversary of his death at Parkside Lutheran Church
1999
A Century Salute to Duke Ellington at the Riviera Theatre
Susannah (Carlisle Floyd) at the Riviera Theatre)
Ellington and Gershwin at the Kenan Center
A Century of Broadway at Pfeifer Theatre
1989
Salute to Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes at the Historical Society
1988
Excerpts from Porgy and Bess for OperaBuffs boat trip
1987
Così fan tutte (Mozart) at Buffalo Seminary
1986
Carmen (Bizet) at Buffalo Seminary
1985
The Impresario and scenes from the Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) at Buffalo State College