70th Anniversary Celebration! – Overton Park Shell, Memphis

About this event

This concert marks the 70th anniversary of Opera Memphis, founded in 1956. Presented as a free outdoor event at the historic Overton Park Shell (celebrating its 90th year in 2026), it is part of the Orion Financial Free Concert Series. Framed as a celebratory retrospective of Opera Memphis's history, the evening honors seven decades of opera in Memphis with vocal selections spanning love, jealousy, murder, revenge, and virtuosic high notes. The Shell's picnic-friendly, community-focused setting reflects Opera Memphis's civic mission and outreach, which the company says reaches more than 40,000 people per season through productions and programs like 30 Days of Opera and Sing2Me.