Opera Workshop I
Laboratory course devoted to the development of acting and movement skills for opera/operetta. Students will develop improved skills in movement and acting. Students will learn how to prepare an operatic role. Students will showcase their work as singing actors via public performance in opera scenes.
Opera Workshop II
Laboratory course devoted to the performance of operatic excerpts and short operas. Students will develop improved skills in movement and acting as well as a polished audition package. Students will showcase their work as singing actors via public performance in opera scenes and/or a chamber opera production.
Opera Production
Production course with involvement as a performer or production assistant in an opera/operetta production. Students showcase their work as singing actors via public performance in this large-scale operatic production with orchestra.
Production History includes:
- 2022-23 Roman Fever/The Stronger, The Turn of the Screw
- 2021-2022 Body of Art (world premiere), La canterina/Der Schauspieldirektor
- 2020-2021 Royal Flush (collegiate premiere)
- 2019-20: Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus in the Underworld.
- 2018-19: State of Grace (world premiere), No Guarantees (workshop), Dialogues of the Carmelites
- 2017-18: Die Fledermaus, Don Giovanni
- 2016-17: Orfeo ed Euridice/Les malheurs d'Orphée, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 2015-16: Trial by Jury/The Beautiful Bridegroom, La bohème
- 2014-15: Little Red Riding Hood, L'enfant et les sortilèges, Le nozze di Figaro
- 2013-14: Suor Angelica/Sancta Susanna, Ariadne auf Naxos
- 2012-13: The Fairy Queen, L'elisir d'amore
- 2011-12: La canterina/The Impresario, Carmen
- 2010-11: Madama Butterfly
- 2009-10: Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute
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For more information on the opera program, please contact Dr. Linda Lister, Director of Opera at linda.lister@unlv.edu.
Here is a partial listing of opera companies where alumni of UNLV Opera have performed:
Opera Companies
Metropolitan Opera
New York City Opera
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Welsh National Opera
Opéra National de Paris
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Oper Frankfurt
Opera Leipzig
Oper Dortmund
Oper Köln
Stadttheater Bern
Seattle Opera
Hawaii Opera Theatre
Opera Orlando
Opera San Jose
Florida Grand Opera
Sarasota Opera
Opera Saratoga
Austin Opera
Chautauqua Opera
Opera Idaho
Minnesota Opera
Opera Tampa
Opera Colorado
Virginia Opera
Michigan Opera Theatre
New Orleans Opera
Utah Opera
San Diego Opera
Opera Las Vegas
Vegas City Opera
Palm Beach Opera
San Francisco Opera
Houston Grand Opera
Volksoper Wien
UNLV Opera Theater Awards
- 1st place, 2015 NOA Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, Graduate Opera Division
- 1st place, 2015 NOA Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, Musical Theatre Division
- 2nd place, 2016 NOA Opera Production Competition, Division 1
- 2nd place, 2017 NOA Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, Musical Theatre Division