#OperaConnects: Building bridges for World Opera Day 2026

This year, World Opera Day is built around a simple idea: opera builds bridges. Casts, creative teams, and co-productions routinely span continents; singers build careers that move between countries and cultures. Opera Connects puts that reality in the centre, inviting companies, artists, and audiences everywhere to show how opera crosses borders, languages, and cultures — on social media and on stage.

Get involved whoever you are!

Here are few ideas to get involved

Opera Companies

Plan an open rehearsal, a guided tour, a panel discussion or a joint event with a partner company !
25 October is also an opportunity to make the case for opera's cultural and economic value. We encourgage you to reach out directly to your policy makers and use our communcations kit with adaptable letter templates and press releases as well as sharable vignettes.
On 25 October, share the campaign vignettes, spotlight an international co-production or collaboration, and post using #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects

Artists

Think of a moment your career crossed borders — a role or project abroad, a language learned, a partnership formed — and prepare to share it.
Post that story, join a company's open rehearsal or talk, or give a shout-out to an international colleague or mentor - use #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects

Opera professionals

Pick a moment from your own work — a set built with an international team, a choir with foreign colleagues — worth telling.
Share a behind-the-scenes glimpse of your craft and how it connects across borders — from stage management to costume, lighting to administration - don’t forget to use #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects

Opera lovers & audiences

Think of your own bridge story — a trip built around an opera abroad, a livestream that introduced you to a company on another continent, an aria that connected you to a culture you'd never otherwise have encountered.
Share it, tagged as part of #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects, and bring along someone who's never experienced opera before.

Young & emerging artists

Reflect on how training, competitions, or young artist programmes have already taken you across borders.
Share your journey and story, or take part in an open rehearsal or masterclass - don’t forget to use #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects

Partner organisations

Explore a joint event, shared broadcast, or cross-promotion with an opera company for the day.
Co-host or cross-post, showing audiences how opera connects with other art forms and institutions - use #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects

Educators & community groups

Plan a listening session, school visit, or community choir activity built around an international opera story.
Share how it went, and use it as a first introduction to opera for those taking part - use #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects

Media & opera influencers

Line up a piece, post, or feature on an international collaboration, artist, or co-production.
Publish it alongside the campaign vignettes to help the story travel further, using #WorldOperaDay & #OperaConnects

Join In on 25 October

Whatever shape your participation takes — a social post, an open rehearsal, a joint event with a partners — it all adds up to the same message: opera is a universal language, and this is the day the whole opera world proves it together.