2025
NOVA Center for the Performing Arts and
Rimrock Opera present

OperaFest


Saturday March 22, 2025
at Hilands Golf Club
714 Poly Drive, Billings, Montana

NOVA Center for the Performing Arts and Rimrock Opera Foundation will host OperaFest at the Hilands Golf Club, 714 Poly Drive, Billings, Montana Saturday March 22, 2025, beginning at 6PM with hors d'oeuvres and no-host cocktails, followed by a gourmet dinner with select wines. OperaFest is a delightful evening with live opera entertainment, fine dining, and upscale live and silent auctions.

OperaFest live auction items include an African photo safari for two, and an appearance in a Rimrock Opera - NOVA production, a private gourmet dinner for eight by a local prominent chef, and a wine and hors d’oeuvre party for 20 with NOVA performance tickets. There will also be large variety of silent auction baskets and gift cards to purchase. Attire is as formal as the guest wishes.

NOVA is a 501(c)3 non-profit entity. Proceeds from a wide selection of silent and live auction items benefit its mission to enhance the performing arts culture of the greater Billings region through education, development and performance.

For reservations or information about OperaFest, contact:
NOVA Center for the Performing Arts
(406) 591-9535 or email us at producer@novabillings.org.

Checks can be mailed to NOVA Center for the Performing Arts, PO Box 11, Billings MT 59103 Advance reservations are $100, or $110 at the door. To reserve your place or for more information on OperaFest, call 406-591-9535 or visit www.novaabillings.org
The cast of the upcoming opera “Hansel and Gretel” written by Composer Engelbert Humperdinck, will be performing at OperaFest throughout the evening. OperaFest is a unique opportunity to meet and hear professional singers and musicians in an intimate setting.


Hansel and Gretel

March 14, 15, 16, 21, & 23, 2025


The opera “Hansel and Gretel” will be performed at NOVA on March 14, 15, 16, 21 & 23, 2025. "Hansel and Gretel" is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The libretto was written in German by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale of the same name. Our production is sung in an English translation.

Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's wife tells him to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves. The woodcutter opposes the plan, but his wife repeats her demands until he reluctantly agrees.