Undergraduate and graduate students at the College of Music present several major productions each year in the Eklund Opera Program. These include fully staged and costumed operas and musicals. Other performance opportunities for students include an annual student-directed opera scenes program as well as CU NOW, which showcases modern American operas, and the Opera Theater Singers, an outreach program which takes graduate students to area schools and other venues.
Personnel
Jennifer Bird
Chair, Voice and Opera
Leigh Holman
Director, Eklund Opera Program
Resident Stage Director
Nicholas Carthy
Opera Music Director
Jeremy Reger
Head Vocal Coach
Mutsumi Moteki
Vocal Coach
Ron Mueller
Technical Director
Tom Robbins
Costume Designer
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"West Side Story" By Leonard Bernstein
Oct. 26-28, 2018
Celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday with a production whose heartbreaking themes, brilliant music and vibrant characters forever changed American musical theatre. “West Side Story” transports Shakespeare’s tragic “Romeo and Juliet” to the streets of 1950s New York, where two star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of a bitter gang rivalry fight to keep their relationship alive.
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"Eugene Onegin" By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mar. 15-17, 2019
In 19th-century rural Russia, romance and tragedy unfold in the fates of two sisters. While Tatiana spends her time reading novels, Olga is courted by a neighbor who introduces a new visitor—Eugene Onegin—with whom Tatiana falls in love. What happens next reveals timeless themes of jealousy and heartbreak set to Tchaikovsky’s dramatic score.
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"The Turn of the Screw" By Benjamin Britten
Apr. 25-28, 2019
Benjamin Britten’s 20th-century English chamber opera—replete with both tonality and dissonance—is something of a horror story, based on Henry James’ disturbing novella of the same name. A young governess is terrorized by suspicious apparitions in a classic tale of the end of innocence, the struggle between good and evil … and supernatural realms.
