Portland Opera

Portland Opera also produces a separate subscription series of touring Broadway musicals, which also take place at the Keller Auditorium.

The next General Director post was the Austrian conductor Herbert Weiskopf, who died of a heart attack in March 1970 after conducting a performance of Lucia di Lammermoor.

[3] In September 2021, the company announced the appointment of Damien Geter as its interim music director, with immediate effect.

In October 2014, the company announced changes in the format of its productions, by presenting some productions in the Keller Auditorium and others as a part of a summer festival format, with three operas produced in the Newmark Theatre.

[6] As part of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Portland Opera Association received $1 million in federally backed small business loan from First Republic Bank as part of the Paycheck Protection Program.