WCO Guild Travels
Travel the World with the Washington Concert Opera Guild
The Guild organizes trips to outstanding opera performances outside the D.C. area. These trips include informative tours that provide insights into the local art, food, and culture, behind-the-scenes experiences or meet-the-singers opportunities, and often visits to artists’ studios. Planning for opera companies to visit never stops!
What a busy travel season it has been! Our final trip for the 25-26 season is right around the corner as we’ll be visiting Saint Louis June 17-21, 2026. Included performances are The Pirates of Penzance, The Light in the Piazza, A Streetcar Named Desire, ending with Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. And of particular note! Patricia Racette’s first production as Stage Director after becoming artistic director at the Opera Theater of St. Louis. She is a past WCO principal singer in the role of Jenufa.
Our first trip for the 2026–2027 season was just announced! Travel with us to Chicago October 27–31, 2026, to experience two operas with Lyric Opera of Chicago, including Omar and Don Giovanni, as well as Brahms’ Requiem at Chicago Symphony Center with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Other past trips have included visits to Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, San Francisco Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. The Guild has thoroughly enjoyed traveling to Pesaro, Italy where they were in attendance at the Teatro Rossini and to Zurich, Switzerland where they supported beloved tenor Lawrence Brownlee in his concert performance of La sonnambula with South African soprano Pretty Yende.
