2024 Season
Our fourteenth season offer baroque masterpieces featuring an impressive roster of internationally renowned performers in their Haymarket debuts, as well as the returns of critically acclaimed and award-winning favorites.
The season opens with an unknown curiosity–Maria Margherita Grimani’s La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista–in its first known performance anywhere since the 18th century. The season continues with two of George Frideric Handel’s finest works: in June, his concert spectacle La Resurrezione, and in September, the Chicago premiere of Handel’s emotionally intense opera Tamerlano, celebrating the 300th anniversary of its 1724 premiere.
March 22, 2024
Oratorio by Maria Margherita Grimani
Haymarket resurrects this dramatically macabre oratorio by forgotten female composer Maria Margherita Grimani in its modern-day premiere
April 25, 2024
The Early Opera Cabaret--a delicious buffet of music, cocktails, conversation, and dinner!
June 14, 2024
Oratorio by George Frideric Handel
Vocal fireworks combine with religious fervor in a heroic showdown between Heaven and Hell
September 29 - October 1, 2023
Opera by George Frideric Handel
Bravery and self-sacrifice prevail in the face of tyranny as two powerful emperors clash in a tapestry of devotion, deception, and desire