Opera Workshop

Voice student Catie Shelley performs in the 2007 production of The Telephone by G. Menotti.  (Pearce photo)

The Department of Music's Opera Workshop maintains a long tradition of excellence in opera education while providing a unique opportunity for voice majors to study and perform masterpieces from the operatic literature in fully mounted productions. Operas are produced annually utilizing the talents of distinguished faculty, alumni, students and community artists.

Recent productions have included Dido and Aeneas, Comedy on the Bridge, The Face on the Barroom Floor, Gianni Schicchi, Orpheus in the Underworld, Act II of Die Fledermaus, The Telephone, A Hand of Bridge, The Old Maid and the Thief, A Dinner Engagement, La Serva Padrona, The King and The Wise Woman, Ten Belles Without a Ring, The Impresario, The Medium, La Voix Humaine, Riders to the Sea, Street Scene, Albert Herring, Eugene Onegin, Suor Angelica, The Tender Land, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Trouble in Tahiti, Rigoletto, Il Tabarro, L'Heure Espagnole, and Dialogues des Carmelites.

Guest director for the 2011-12 season is Brent Krysa, and the production will be Sweeney Todd.  See our Music Calendar for details.

More Opera Workshop photos:

• 2008
• 2007
• 2006 
• 2005
• 2003 
• 2002