Victory Hall Opera is now in its 4th Season of bringing cutting-edge, thrilling opera to Charlottesville.  Led by opera singers Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Artistic Director) and Brenda Patterson (Director of Music), and co-founded by Charlottesvillian opera director Maggie Bell, VHO presents a new model for what an opera company can be: not an institution, but a troupe: of 12 exceptional, high-caliber singers, advancing the art form together.

VHO presents contemporary productions of "chamber opera" and song in intimate, alternative venues, offering an up-close experience of the human instrument.
With groundbreaking cross-genre collaborations, every performance we give has to meet our three-fold test: it must be "disarming, exquisite, sincere".

And our name? "Victory Halls" were built all over the world after WWI as community theaters, and to encourage touring musicians to perform concerts in regional towns. Victory Hall Opera harkens back to this spirit and seeks to bring the best the opera world has to offer back home to Charlottesville, VA.