Mill City Summer Opera dramas for the summer arts audience in the Twin Cities every year since, with productions of Gioacchino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" in 2013; Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" in 2014; Gaetano Donizetti's "La fille du régiment" in 2015; Stephen Sondheim's "" in 2016; and Ástor Piazzolla's "María de Buenos Aires" in 2017. In addition, the organization has offered alternative educational and contemporary programming, including opera scenes featuring emerging artists in the opera field and fusion programming. Mill City Summer Opera Mill City Summer Opera is a non-profit performing arts organization that produces live opera in Minneapolis. It produces one opera per
Opera Pacific in the Festival of Opera." The first productions included such traditional repertory as "Madame Butterfly", "The Marriage of Figaro", and "The Barber of Seville"; "I Pagliacci" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" were presented as a double billing during the 1965 season. In the early 1980s members of the "Opera Leaque", along with other opera aficionados throughout Orange County, combined to form the core audience for the anticipated opening of the Orange County Performing Arts Center in neighboring Costa Mesa, at which time Opera Pacific was incorporated. Opera Pacific has been host to many of opera's greatest living legends, including