Mill City Summer Opera is a non-profit performing arts organization, that produces live opera in the non-traditional venue of the Ruins Courtyard of the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company's inaugural production was the two-act Italian opera, Pagliacci, composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo produced in July 2012.
The company has continued to produce opera for the underserved summer arts audience in the Twin Cities every year since, with productions of Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Puccini's Tosca, and alternative educational and contemporary programing, including opera scene featuring emerging artists in the opera field and fusion programing, such as the 2014 concert Guns n' Rosencavilier.
The Summer 2015 production will be announced in March 2015.