Opera on the Menu
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Awe-peratic Dinner Theater in Albuquerque, NM curating fine dining experiences converging with opera
17/05/2025
Have you heard? Opera on the Menu is BACK! With an exciting collaboration alongside The St. James Tearoom
Join us for Regal Voices: An Opera Celebration of Royalty, an immersive evening of music honoring the grandeur, passion, and drama of royalty through opera and musical theater.
Tickets are going fast so don’t wait! Visit our website - opera on the menu dot com - to reserve your table.
Featuring iconic arias, duets, and choruses drawn from operas and stage works inspired by royal figures, performed by Darci Balkcom Jenna Kuchar Lore Hazard and Karah Ingraham with Natalia Ross on piano.
These works will be brought to life as performers move among the audience for a dynamic and engaging experience.
Guests will be seated at private tables with their own party, creating an intimate and comfortable setting for this royal celebration.
A full afternoon tea from our “Royal Celebration” menu will be served during the performance, accompanied by a specially crafted royal toast, a refined beverage to be enjoyed alongside the music and storytelling.
We could not have done this without you!!
Lore Hazard
Javier Ortiz
Natasha Stojanovska
Kelia Ingraham
Darci Balkcom
Hope Willenbrink-Marchesi
Santiago Alfonzo Meza
Quiara Cortez
Mila’s Mesa
Felix Wallace
Ben Webb
Claudia Terrazas Zamora
Hannah Stephens
Rebecca Brunette
Nadine Adisho, Soprano
Karah Ingraham
Amanda Derr-Porter
Nick Laemmer
Allen Adair
Luz Guillen
08/12/2024
Best of City Winners 2024 🥇 2nd year in a row 😭
We are so grateful to have been voted Best Theater Troupe in Albuquerque The Magazine by our amazing community.
If you haven’t already, please go to our website - opera on the menu dot com - and subscribe to our email list to get updates about our 2025 season!
It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our beloved chef, Jamila Savoy.
Chef Mila was an essential part of the early success of Opera on the Menu, offering us flexible prices and true collaboration in support of our shared mission as artists.
Chef Mila and her team did amazing work at our dinners, providing guests, artists and waitstaff with delicious, nourishing, and memorable dining experiences.
We were always in awe of the amazing speed, agility and professionalism of Chef Mila and her team. We referred to them as “food fairies” because they would come, swiftly and sweetly, offer a magical meal, and then be gone in the blink of an eye.
We are feeling this huge loss at Opera on the Menu, and we know our future shows won’t be the same without her.
If you wish to support Chef Mila’s family at this time you can visit the GoFundMe page - https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-jamila-help-for-memorial-costs-and-yasmine
What a ride it has been! 🚂🎶🎭🥂
We are so grateful for the amazing shows we did for our Opera on the Rails series with Sky Railway this summer 🙏🏽🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏾
Thank you to all the train staff and our artists who made this possible - Bailey Barnes Jenna Kuchar Natasha Stojanovska Javier Ortiz Hannah Stephens Darci Balkcom Nick Laemmer Rebecca Brunette Nadine Adisho, Soprano Santiago Alfonzo Meza Lore Hazard and Felix Wallace for 📸
It’s not Love and Betrayal without Puccini ❤️💔❤️🩹
Join us for our FINAL Opera on the Rails of 2024 with Sky Railway this Saturday August 24 for the hot price of $99!
Enjoy this clip of soprano Jenna Kuchar and pianist Natasha Stojanovska rehearsing Si, mi chiamano Mimí from Puccini’s La Boheme
🎟️tickets - OperaOnTheMenu.com/tickets 🎟️
Tenor realness - on a train!
See Lore Hazard sing Che gelida from Puccini’s La Bohéme on our FINAL Opera on the Rails experience with Sky Railway 🚂🎶 along with the fabulous Natasha Stojanovska on the piano
Saturday August 24
Don’t miss out on this unique and unforgettable journey through the New Mexico desert while you enjoy some of opera’s best moments of love and betrayal.
Your ticket includes
a seat in a historic train car 💺
a complimentary champagne welcome as the adventure begins 🥂
a handheld charcuterie box 🧀
And an immersive opera experience 🎭 🎶
With the rest of our wonderful artistic team Nadine Adisho, Soprano Santiago Alfonzo Meza Bailey Barnes Jenna Kuchar
Get your tickets now!
🎟️ OperaOnTheMenu.com/tickets 🎟️
Opera on the Menu needs your help! 🙏🏻
ONE DAY LEFT to support your fav artists and musicians with Albuquerque The Magazine Best of the City 🏅
We won the award for Best New Business Idea 2023 and it gave our little opera company a HUGE boost.
It is FREE to vote and takes 2 minutes.
ANYONE can vote (no need to be NM resident)
🗳️ abqthemag.com/events/best-of-the-city/
Please vote for Opera on the Menu for:
“Best Theater Troupe” under LOCAL FUN
“Best Category We Left Out” at the BOTTOM - Type “Opera on the Menu - Dinner Theater”
PLEASE support us with a bit of your time and help our music business grow 🙏🏻♥️
Thank you for supporting our mission of collaborating with local chefs, musicians, businesses and organizations, and showcasing composers that have been historically underrepresented, to make our community feel like they are a part of something greater than themselves.
Watch Faust and the Devil pursue Marguerite with scenes from Gounod’s Faust on our Train Ride to Purgatory TOMORROW! Friday July 26
Enjoy this clip of Bailey Barnes singing the Jewel Aria and Santiago Alfonzo Meza singing Avant de quitter ces lieux with Natasha Stoyanovska on piano.
We are so enjoying this wild ride with Sky Railway ♥️🙌
Tickets still available 🎟️ OperaOnTheMenu.com/tickets
We are getting stoked for our upcoming Train to Purgatory July 26!
Tickets 🎟️ OperaOnTheMenu.com/tickets
Its a literal balancing act 😂
The challenge of singing on a moving train is one we are happy to take on! 🎶🚂
Tickets still available for our next Opera on the Rails show with Sky Railway 🎟️
July 26 we will be offering our Train to Purgatory show where we explore the depths of hell, death and morality with music from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Gounod’s Faust, and more!
🎟️ Tickets at OperaOnTheMenu.com/tickets