Friday, April 19, 2024 | Steelhouse Omaha
Carol and David Domina, Chairs

Featuring the World Premiere of

Don’t Look Back

Curated and performed by

GRAMMY® Award-winning countertenor

Anthony Roth Costanzo

5:30 PM | Cocktails
7:00 PM | Dinner
8:15 PM | Performance
9:00 PM | Dessert

Thank you to all who, through their support, made the 2024 Opera Omaha Gala a tremendous evening.
The 2024 Gala was one of the most successful Opera Omaha galas in recent history.

For information on future events, contact
Joe Prickett, Director of Development
jprickett@operaomaha.org | 402.346.7372 x201

GRAMMY Award-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will premiere his new work, Don’t Look Back, at Opera Omaha’s annual Gala on April 19, 2024 at Steelhouse Omaha.

Don’t Look Back is a multidisciplinary experience conceived, curated and performed by Anthony Roth Costanzo in collaboration with Opera Omaha, the Morgan Library & Museum, and Harvard University.

Featuring the music of Mozart, Gluck, and Handel, the performance breathes fresh life into the Morgan’s vast collection of original music manuscripts and first editions and allows Costanzo to perform, quite literally, within these artifacts. Film director and photographer Pix Talarico gives audiences an unprecedented new vantage point to interact with these precious objects, colliding past with present.

The work is part of Costanzo’s MYTHS festival, a series of performances and events that explore the idea of myth in personal, societal and historical contexts. MYTHS is presented in association with the Metropolitan Opera, where Costanzo will perform Orfeo ed Euridice beginning May 16, 2024. MYTHS is partially funded with support from the Mellon Foundation.

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He was recently awarded a GRAMMY, an Honorary Doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, a visiting fellowship from Oxford University, and the History Makers Award from the New York Historical Society, and in the spring will be a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard. This season, he returns to the Metropolitan Opera after starring in Akhnaten, in another title role as Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, the Santa Fe Opera for a World Premiere, and to the Teatro Real; makes his Paris Opera debut, gives solo recitals at the Kennedy Center and Boston’s Jordan Hall, makes his debut at the Wigmore Hall in London, and appears in Carnegie Hall with the Met Chamber Orchestra. As a producer, he has created projects for Opera Philadelphia, The New York Philharmonic, The BBC Proms, WQXR, and St. Ann’s Warehouse among others. His debut album, ARC was nominated for a GRAMMY, and his live show and second album Only an Octave Apart with cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond received numerous “Best of 2021” accolades, ranging from TIME Magazine to The New York Times and Washington Post. Costanzo was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in a Merchant Ivory film and graduated with honors from Princeton University, where he has returned to teach, and Manhattan School of Music, where he is on the board of trustees along with being on the board of National Black Theater.