Dayton Performing Arts Alliance Announces 2025-26 Season

The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has announced its 2025-26 season.Opera The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen” led by an all-female team composed of Chelsea Gallo, a rising star within the conducting world, Irene Rodriguez, an award-winning Flamenco dancer and choreographer, and Dayton Opera’s Artistic Director Kathleen Clawson as stage director.Performance Dates: Nov.

1-2, 2025A double will be presented featuring Shawn E. Okpebholo’s “The Cook-Off” and Lee Hoiby’s “Bon Appétit!” Performance Dates: Feb. 6-7, 2026John Holiday takes the stage, backed by the full Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.



Performance Date: April 25, 2026The season concludes with Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” In Concert.Performance Dates: May 15–16, 2026Masterworks The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dayton Philharmonic Chamber Chorus unite for Handel’s “Messiah.”Performance Date: Dec.

16, 2025Pianist Awadagin Pratt joins the DPO to perform two concertos written especially for him, both inspired by T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.

The program concludes with Mozart’s Requiem.Performance Dates: May 1-2, 2026The post Dayton Performing Arts Alliance Announces 2025-26 Season appeared first on OperaWire..