www.operaphila.org/ Opera Philadelphia’s 2024-2025 Season begins in September with the highly anticipated American Premiere of The Listeners, the newest opera from the Philadelphia-born, Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek. Winter brings the company premiere of The Anonymous Lover, a 1780 opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who is widely regarded as the first Black classical composer known to history and was the subject of the spring 2023 film Chevalier. The season closes in spring with a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni directed by Alison Moritz, set to premiere this summer at Cincinnati Opera.