Opera Girl! The Curtain Rises

is a Japanese manga series written and Illustrated by Kumiko Saiki. The series ended with its 14th chapter when the magazine Jump Kai ceased publication in 2014, but still resulted in 2 tankōbon volumes as of October 17, 2014. It was later re-released as in a single tankōbon volume by Hakusensha in March 2019. In 2015, the manga was picked by Shueisha's subsidiary Hakusensha and continued in Melody under the title of. The sequel manga resulted in 11 tankōbon volumes as of July 5, 2021. It was adapted into an anime by studio Pine Jam and aired from July 4, 2021 to September 26, 2021 for 13 episodes.

Plot
Watanabe Sarasa has always dreamed of being an otokoyaku, an actress who plays male roles in an all-female theater troupe. Narata Ai also has a dream: the disgraced former idol wants to live in a world full of women and not have to deal with men at all. When they both get into a competitive all-girls theater school, the stage is set for Ai and Sarasa to enter the limelight and take their first step toward stardom.

Official

 * Official anime website (in Japanese)