Opera that inspires in Arlington, Texas.

Opera Arlington was created in 2022 to educate, inspire, challenge, amaze, nurture, and empower artists and audiences by presenting quality opera performances that foster a more interculturally-conscious and compassionate community in Arlington and the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Meet our team!

By supporting the arts through Opera Arlington, you're helping more music come to life in our community, and empowering emerging musicians through paid performance opportunities. Opera Arlington is a community-driven organization that is primarily crowd-funded. Join hands with us to ignite a passion for the arts and culturally enrich our community in Arlington and DFW. Make a gift today and become a part of the Opera Arlington family.

Your donation is tax deductible to the extent permitted by the law. Opera Arlington is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Join the movement to touch audiences and empower musicians in our city.

Your gift will educate, inspire, challenge, amaze, nurture, and empower both artists and audiences in our city through fully-staged opera productions, recitals, and concerts this year. Raised funds will cover production costs, artist fees, and operations to make this season possible. Here's what we’re dreaming up for this season—will you help bring it to life?

A November production of Humperdinck’s beloved fairytale opera, Hansel & Gretel, will kick off the holiday season with whimsy and delight.
A June production of Bizet‘s monumental Carmen, with orchestra, represents Opera Arlington’s largest project yet—a fitting match for what many hold to be the most legendary opera of all time.
Concerts, recitals, and festival appearances highlighting the talents of world-class musicians based in Arlington, DFW, and beyond—including free community offerings.

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A Note from the Founder

Dear Opera Arlington family,

I want to take a moment and thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your support of Opera Arlington. I believe that live opera—story-telling in music and art—is a bold act of community and humanity; that art has the power to change attitudes and lives; that music can sing to the most secret places of our hearts; and that this work can help our community become a more beautiful and compassionate place. It is a privilege to celebrate works, new and old, that are an outpouring of the human spirit from cultures and languages across the world.

Together, we have built and engaged a thriving music community in Arlington in our first two seasons. Your support continues to foster and celebrate emerging musicians, propelling them to sustainable and successful careers in an industry that too often treats singers as replaceable. Thank you for being a part of that vision.

I will leave you with the beautiful words of an aria, When I Sing, composed by Jamey Guzman to text by Ken Takata in 2021:

When I sing, I paint with time, a breath and flow, organic, alive,
When I sing, the past is near, the present dear,
A single note suspends in between silence and the rest.
When I sing, ancient countries reconvene,
Sing out through the page across time and space,
Quand je chante, cuando canto, when I sing.

When I sing... I cannot recall what I was before.
A golden moment of forgetting... before the world rushes in,
The moment of surrender,
As I’m held within the orchestral wave, the sundering,
A breath, a rest, a shuddering.
What man are you who could compare
To what I hear, to what I feel
When I sing?

With humble thanks,

Bree Nichols, D.M.A.

Founder & Artistic Director

Raise the Curtain! Opera Arlington’s 2025–26 Season

Help raise the curtain on Opera Arlington to ignite the arts in our city. Our mission? To craft thrilling performances and galvanize the careers of emerging musicians in Arlington and DFW, Texas.

Team Members