Performances
What Our Students Say
24th SEASON
HARLEM OPERA THEATER
2025
FOUNDED IN 2001 – WE PRESENT CONCERTS, RECITALS, CLASSICAL MUSIC, MASTER CLASSES,
IN SCHOOL CONCERTS & VOCAL COMPETITIONS. NEW INITIATIVES AND COLLABORATIONS,
(LIVE AND VIRTUAL), WITH OTHER ARTS ORGANIZATIONS.
FEBRUARY 2025
Tribute to Samuel Coleridge Taylor
MARCH 2025
A Tribute to Mary McLeod Bethune
APRIL 2025
Tribute to Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
MAY 2025
Tribute to Malcolm X
JUNE 2025
Black Music Month Concert
DECEMBER 2025
Concert and Holiday Community Sing
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In keeping with our mission, we bring live affordable classical music to Harlem and communities where opera is seldom heard. Our singers have gone on to major opera houses. With your support we will continue to offer affordable music to the community. Please help to bring “Opera to Harlem” with your donation.
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and future generations of the arts!
It is an institution empowering African-American artists and introducing the wonders of music to younger generations. If you want to learn more, the following are the types of concerts and events we primarily organize:
“Salute to Black History Month”
concert in February celebrates spirituals involving composers like the Father of the Spiritual Arrangement, Harry T. Burleigh, Hall Johnson, and Margaret Bonds, and classical composers including Gaetano Donizetti, Scott Joplin, and Giuseppe Verdi.
“Community Holiday Sing”
event in December -Masterclasses for artists and community focus group sessions with the organization’s stakeholders
“Opera for Beginners”
music literacy project in NYC private and public schools and after-school programs like the Northside Center Harlem Opera Theater is a reputable and trusted not-for-profit organization in the country.
Currently, we organize shows and help artists in the Harlem neighborhood in NYC, New York. Aside from public concerts, we also have a YouTube channel, making it easier for patrons to enjoy our performances anytime. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please reach us by email at harlemoperatheater@gmail.com. Contact Harlem Opera Theater now!Founded in 2001 under the leadership of Dr. Gregory Hopkins, Artistic Director, as a non-profit corporation, the concert season includes a Salute to Black History Month in February, celebrating Spirituals by African American composers such as Harry T. Burleigh, Father of the Spiritual Arrangement, Hall Johnson and Margaret Bonds; also, selections from operas of classical composers, Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti and Scott Joplin. We present concerts, recitals and new initiatives; we collaborate with other organizations to present new artists throughout the year and host a Community Holiday Sing in December. We have hosted a master class for artists and a community focus group session with Harlem stakeholders. We develop the audience and potential artists of the future as we present “Opera for Beginners”, a music literacy project to enrich the lives of children through in-school performances in the NYC Public Schools; charter schools and after school programs, such as the Northside Center. Harlem Opera Theater has presented approximately 150 classical singers in concert to a combined audience of over 15,000 patrons of the arts.
What Students Say
Harlem Opera Theater presented Opera for Beginners on the virtual stage followed by a conversation with the artists and students at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). A student survey provided the following testimonials.