Portrait of Wei Wu

Off to the Opera (and On to the Grammys)

Wei Wu came to the U.S. from China in 2007. Now he's got a Grammy.

Mark Campbell

Opera Librettist Mark Campbell

March 1, 2016

It’s a rare thing to be a full-time librettist today. Mark Campbell (Thtr’75) would like to make it less so.

Members of the cast of Così fan tutte

See You at the Met

March 1, 2015

Ambition. Amor. Seduction. Betrayal. For CU’s opera singers, it’s all in a semester’s work. For some, it’ll be a life.

miller at opera

Fullbacking an Aria

Dec. 1, 2009

Former football player pursues opera career.

cynthia lawrence

Singer Soars to New Heights

June 1, 2009

The last time Cynthia Lawrence sang with world-renowned operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti, he gave her a one-eyed glance to see where she was going to land before she plunged backward off a wall in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca.