Visitation Park
A neighborhood in St. Louis
Visitation Park is a small St. Louis neighborhood bounded by Maple Avenue, Delmar Boulevard, Union Boulevard, and Belt Avenue. Its live-music footprint is narrow but distinctive, anchored by a single venue of real standing. Union Avenue Opera is an opera company based in St. Louis, founded by Scott Schoonover, the music director of Union Avenue Christian Church, which serves as the company's performance home here in Visitation Park. The company has been presenting affordable original-language opera since 1995, in an intimate setting with projected English supertitles, making it accessible to first-timers and longtime opera fans alike. The 2026 festival season runs July through August, with productions including Bock's Fiddler on the Roof, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, and Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila. Professional singers from beyond St. Louis audition for the company, with audition cities extending to Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. For anyone seeking live music in Visitation Park, Union Avenue Opera is the destination, and it is a serious one.
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- Union Avenue Opera733 Union Blvd, St. Louis
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