Opera San Jose’s 26-27 Season!
You Could Win a Pair of Premium Tickets to Three 2026-2027 Opera San Jose Productions: Fiddler on the Roof, Dr. Atomic, Carmen
Opera San José’s 43rd season proves great opera is always capable of surprising us. Experience the aching beauty and humanity of Fiddler on the Roof. Enter the tense, apocalyptic world of John Adams’ Dr. Atomic. Then surrender to the irresistible melodies, passion, and tragedy of Carmen. Three bold productions bring world-class singers and unforgettable storytelling to San Jose’s historic California Theatre.
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Fiddler on the Roof November 15 - November 29, 2026 California Theatre - San Jose, CA
Tradition meets revolution in Opera San Jose’s new production of Fiddler on the Roof. In a vibrant Jewish shtetl on the eve of upheaval, Tevye, the enduring dairyman, grapples with his daughters’ dreams of love while clinging to the customs that provide his world’s structural integrity. In one of America’s most diverse immigrant hubs, this story of heritage, adaptation, and belonging is deeply personal, a reflection of San Jose’s own balancing act between honoring the past and stepping bravely into the future.
Doctor Atomic February 14 - February 28, 2027 California Theatre - San Jose, CA
The gripping intensity of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic arrives in an all-new production at the California Theatre, led by visionary General Director Shawna Lucey. Chronicling the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the Manhattan Project, this opera dramatizes the highstakes days when J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team confronted the ethical weight of unleashing unprecedented destructive power. Haunting choruses and pulsating rhythms capture the tension between scientific breakthrough and human conscience. In the heart of Silicon Valley, where ideas become forces that shape the globe, this landmark work lands not only as history, but as a reflection of our own innovation and its enduring consequence.
Carmen April 18 - May 2, 2027 California Theatre - San Jose, CA
The most celebrated tale of passion, jealousy, and fatal attraction, set against the sultry backdrop of Seville: Bizet’s Carmen. In this high-stakes collision of autonomy and obsession, the bold, free-spirited Carmen refuses to be possessed, drawing the soldier Don Jose into a dangerous world of defiance that ends in a seismic reckoning of the heart. From the defiant “Habanera” to the triumphant “Toreador Song,” this production pulses with an intensity and sensuality that persists until the final, bitter moments.