Opera on Tap - DC Metro
Thursday, November 20, 2025 7-9pm
All shows are free!
The Wonderland Ballroom
In Series: 2025-2026 Season
PASSION PLAYS
A FESTIVAL OF WORLD PREMIERES
This festival brings new music-theater works to life, each exploring different aspects of human passion, suffering, redemption, each with a unique musical landscape, and all featuring world class artists using music, drama, and meaning to spark transformation.
J.S.Bach's St. Matthew Passion
March 6, 7,and 8, 2026
Dupont Underground
Washington, DC
For Women Serving Time
March 20, 21, and 22, 2026
Dupont Underground
April 10, 11, and 12
Baltimore Theatre Project
Upcoming
The Music of David Sisco
Recording to be released in 2026
Elizabeth Mondragon
Mezzo-Soprano
"In Cecilia, it is Elizabeth Mondragon, playing Charito—Cecilia’s mother—in two brief scenes who brings the acting chops. She is despair personified..." - DCTheaterScene.com
(Zarzuela Cubana - The In Series)
INvision: The Logan Opera House without Walls
Chronicle of a Life and Love
Robert Schumann’s song-cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and reflections by essayist Shalom Auslander
Featuring the songs of Schoenberg, Debussy, Sisco, Grever and more
with pianist, Carla Hübner
Guest artist: Joe Haughton
The Pleiades Project 24 - Season 5
Nina by Giovanni Pergolesi; arr. Tamar Green
Elizabeth Mondragon and Frank Conlon
in a Friday Afternoon Cocktail Concert
"The star of the night, though, was without a doubt mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Mondragon. Her performance of Aaron Copland’s 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson was a triumph, as she glided her way through the iconic poetry with strength, nuance, and a powerful wit that many others would forgo. Her performance made the piece as charming as it is beautiful, a feat that adds so much dimension to poems that have the capability of growing stagnant in their sacredness." - DC Theater Scene.com (The ABC's of American Art Song - The In Series)
"Leading the cast (Dido and Aeneas) was mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Mondragon...she found the subtlety of the character and played it with an acuteness that made one watch her every move. Her suicide...was intriguing and heartbreaking..." - BlogCritics.org
"Elizabeth Mondragon was a captivating Carmen...never vamped or overacted. Like a cat stalking a bird, this Carmen came in for the kill. Mondragon’s love scenes...were sung with tenderness and her confrontation with Don Jose preceding her death was gut wrenching. This was a performance to treasure." - Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Carmen - Regina Opera)
"Elizabeth Mondragon’s even, warm, and shimmering mezzo stood out... Her “Habanera” put the show to a solid start, and her “Una voce poca fa” was clear and riveting. Mondragon’s rendition of “If I Loved You” was startlingly beautiful...this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is deceptively hard and Mondragon performed it effortlessly." - DCTheaterScene.com
Recital and Chamber Music
- Quae moerebat et dolebat from "Stabat Mater"2:53
- Eja mater fons amoris from Stabat Mater2:26
- Widow's Air from "Elijah"6:22
- Agnus Dei from "Petite Messe Solennelle"8:09
- Bereite dich Zion from Christmas Oratorio4:50
Opera
- Cuando está tan hondo from "El barquillero"6:08
- Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix from "Samson et Dalila"6:29
- Voi lo sapete from "Cavalleria Rusticana"3:46
- There were portions from "Massacre"13:20
- All that gold! from "Amahl and the Night Visitors"7:05
- A Birthday from "Passages"2:09
- Mahnung from "Brettl-Lieder"3:43
- Chanson d'Orkenise from "Banalités"1:25
- Breaking Night... from "Missed Connections"0:45
- In the Beginning from "Of Gods and Cats"2:47
- Heart, we will forget him from "Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson2:00
- Frederick Harding from "This Morning"2:23
Oratorio and Concert
Contact Elizabeth here for availability and scheduling information.
Booking info