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OPERA San Antonio Announces Citywide Military Community Production of The Falling and the Rising
November 11, 2026
SAN ANTONIO, TX (November 11, 2026) — On Veterans Day, OPERA San Antonio (OSA) announces The Falling and the Rising, an 80-minute American chamber opera by composer Zach Redler and librettist Jerre Dye, to be presented February 2–7, 2027, through a citywide Community Impact Series created with and for San Antonio’s military community. Co-commissioned in 2016 in partnership with the U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus, The Falling and the Rising was developed through extensive interviews with active-duty service members, veterans, military families, and communities connected to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and other military installations. The opera follows Soldier, an unnamed female service member who is critically injured by a roadside IED and placed in a medically induced coma. Through a dreamlike series of encounters with fellow service members, she moves toward recovery, clarity, family, and the possibility of coming home.
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Opera San Antonio's 'Cinderella,' a comedic delight and 'a beautiful story of forgiveness'
October 15, 2026
Opera San Antonio opens their season this week with a bright and cheerful production of Gioachino Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” a story that would be more familiar to English-speaking audiences as “Cinderella.”
Unlike the Disney movie, there are no singing mice, no glass slipper, and no Fairy Godmother, but the basic plot is the same, about a young woman forced to work as a chamber maid in her own home by her wretched stepsisters.
Ultimately, the opera is “a beautiful story of forgiveness,” according to Francesco Milioto, Music Director of Opera San Antonio.
Rossini’s “Cinderella” also breaks the stereotype of unhappy endings in opera.
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Daniela Mack to Headline Opera San Antonio’s La Cenerentola’
September 17, 2026
Set for Oct. 15 and 17, 2026 at the H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, the production originated at Lyric Opera of Kansas City and is inspired by the visual style of filmmaker Wes Anderson. The opera will be presented in collaboration with the Orchestra San Antonio and stars mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack stars as Angelina, tenor Victor Robertson as Prince Ramiro, and baritone Will Liverman as Dandini. Other cast members include bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi as Don Magnifico, Katherine Henly as Clorinda, Lauryn Nelson as Tisbe, and Stefan Egerstrom as Alidoro.
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At OSA we showcase masterpieces of the operatic repertoire with world-class productions at the Tobin Center along with an experimental second stage series that more deeply explores the art form in venues across the great city of San Antonio.
OPERA San Antonio’s mission is to produce opera of uncompromising artistic quality and to enrich our community through educational outreach and social engagement. The company is committed to preserving and sharing opera as an art form that is relevant, inspirational, and accessible to residents and visitors of all ages and backgrounds. The civic premise of OPERA San Antonio is that the community needs, and the citizens deserve, access to the major performing arts.
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