Become a PORTopera Supporter!
There are several ways to help PORTopera in its mission of creating full productions of grand opera for Maine audiences. Financial support is primary and represents about 30% of PORTopera's total income.
Individual Support
Our patrons include many hundreds from Maine and elsewhere. We also invite the help of private foundations. You are invited to participate in our current campaign — and many thanks!
For your convenience, we now accept online donations through our secure donation page.
Volunteer support is always a need, too.
Corporate Support
A large number of Greater Portland businesses have underwritten PORTopera productions.
They include those listed at right to name but a few. 
If your company has interest in joining this group, please contact us.
Shop PORTopera!
Purchases through the PORTopera store help fund our programs and operas. Items currently include Cucina del Bel Canto (the first official PORTopera cookbook), a sterling silver pendant, and a beautiful opera themed silk scarf.
Madama Butterfly
If you recall the second act of Madama Butterfly, the beautiful Cio-Cio San has waited three long years for her American husband, Lieutenant Pinkerton, to return. Unlike her, you have less than a year to wait for PORTopera’s Madama Butterfly in a breathtaking production: fully staged with stars of the opera world in the leads, chorus, an orchestra of over 50 musicians, stunning scenery and sumptuous costumes.
An unforgettable experience—a world-class production of Madama Butterfly reflects Portland’s sophistication and artistic heart.
PORTopera Emerges as National Opera Presence
A column covering PORTopera’s emergence as a national opera presence will appear in the Portland Press Herald during the week in the Maine Voices section on the editorial page. The column, written by PORTopera co-founder Jack Riddle, will point out the many benefits afforded to the Maine arts community by the presence of a nationally acclaimed opera company.
Review: Maine soprano delights in La Fille du Regiment
"PORTopera has done it again -- presented a well-known opera that is staged, directed and sung at the highest professional level. In the case of Thursday night's performance of Donizetti's 'La Fille du Regiment' at Merrill Auditorium, it was also thoroughly enjoyable and engaging."
