Relive the groundbreaking operatic experience that was O17, Opera Philadelphia’s inaugural season-opening festival. From September 14-25, 2017, the city became a stage as over 260 artists came together for 31 performances in 12 days at six venues—including three world premieres!

Significant support for Opera Philadelphia’s festival O has been provided by the William Penn Foundation, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Neubauer Family Foundation, Mrs. Sandra K. Baldino, Judy and Peter Leone, Barbara Augusta Teichert, Donald and Gay Kimelman, and Caroline J. MacKenzie Kennedy.

O17 has received additional support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, OPERA America’s Building Audiences grant program and an OPERA America Innovation Grant, both supported by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation,The Presser Foundation, The Barra Foundation, PNC Arts Alive, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,The Independence Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts , Ady L. Djerassi, M.D. and Robert Golub, M.D., the Mazzotti/Kelly Fund-BBH of the Philadelphia Foundation, Constance and Michael Cone, and the Allen R. and Judith Brick Freedman Venture Fund for New Opera.