Enjoy innovative, award-winning opera performances.
Our renowned Opera Theatre program performs one mainstage production each year and a series of opera scenes throughout the academic year. Explore the current season’s performances below.
2025-2026 Opera Performances
Mainstage Opera
A Nearer Mother
Music by Evan Mack Libretto by Joshua McGuire
The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret
Music by Leanna Kirchoff Libretto by Leanna Kirchoff, based on Overtones by Alice Gerstenberg
Thursday, March 5 – Saturday, March 7, 2026 • 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 8, 2026 • 3 p.m.
Stansbury Theater
Director: Copeland Woodruff
Music Director and Conductor: Kristin Roach
Buy tickets for Mainstage Opera performances!
Tickets can be purchased via the Lawrence University Box Office. Tickets for opera performances go on sale two weeks prior to the first performance.
Fall Opera Scenes
Thursday, November 20, 2025 • 7:30 p.m.
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Free admission
Director: Copeland Woodruff
Music Director: Kristin Roach
Spring Opera Scenes
Thursday, May 21, 2026 • 7:30 p.m.
Stansbury Theater
Free admission
Director: Copeland Woodruff
Music Director: Kristin Roach
