Enjoy innovative, award-winning opera performances.

Our renowned Opera Theatre program performs one main-stage production each year and a series of opera scenes throughout the academic year. Explore the current season's performances below.

2023-2024 Opera Performances

Fall Opera Scenes

Featuring scenes by Mozart, Sondheim, Argento, Sankaram, Britten, Lerner/Lowe, and Humperdinck

Tuesday, November 14th at 7:30pm - Lawrence Memorial Chapel

Director: Copeland Woodruff
Music Director: Kristin Roach

 

Students singing during opera performance

Mainstage Opera,
featuring two one-act operas:

Cendrillon - Music/Libretto by Pauline Viardot
Alice Tierney - Music by Melissa Dunphy, Libretto by Jacqueline Goldfinger

Thursday, February 29-Sunday, March 3, 2024 - Stansbury Theater

Director: Copeland Woodruff
Music Director and Conductor: Kristin Roach

 

 

 

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Tickets can be purchased via the Lawrence University Box Office. Tickets for opera performances go on sale two weeks prior to the first performance.

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Spring Opera Scenes

Thursday, May 16th, 2024 at 7:30pm - Stansbury Theater

Director: Copeland Woodruff
Music Director: Kristin Roach

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