For centuries, the joy and comedy that clowns bring their audiences have often been fused with the dark underbelly of human emotions - despair, revenge, and rage. Ruggero Leoncavallo's operatic masterpiece Pagliacci does just that and is still widely performed thanks to its timeless, story-telling score. Experience its majesty during Minnesota Opera's latest production at the Ordway Music Theater!

Elizabethan England comes to town this spring, care of the Minnesota Opera as they stage Verdi's final masterpiece. Comic, romantic, and full of delightful hijinks, join scene stealer of three of Shakespeare's plays, Sir John Falstaff - Played by Craig Colclough under the baton of conductor Christopher Franklin - setting out to woo two different women, with the exact same plan for each!