Vocal Arts

Undergraduate Vocal Ensembles

Graduate Vocal Ensembles

MSM Opera Theatre

2016–17
La clemenza di Tito, W. A. Mozart
Der Zigeunerbaron, Johann Strauss

2015–16
The Dangerous Liaisons, Conrad Susa
Persée et Andromède, Jacques Ibert and L’enfant et les sortilèges, Maurice Ravel

2014–15
Macbeth, Ernest Bloch
Die Zauberflöte, W.A. Mozart

2013–14
The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson
Orlando Paladino, Franz Joseph Haydn

2012–13
Thais, Jules Massenet
Aufsteig Und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Kurt Weill

2011–12
Cosi fan tutte, W. A. Mozart
The Ghost of Versailles, John Corigliano

2010–11
Summer and Smoke, Lee Hoiby
El amor brujo and La vida breve, Manuel De Falla

2009–10
Pénélope, Gabriel Fauré
Le nozze di Figaro, W. A. Mozart

2008–09
Later the Same Evening, John Musto
Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss

2007–08
Street Scene, Kurt Weill
Griffelkin, Lukas Foss

2006–07
L’Italiana in Londra, Domenico Cimarosa
Lord Byron’s Love Letter, Raffaelo de Banfield, and The Village Singer, Stephen Paulus

2005–06
Cendrillon, Jules Massenet
A Dinner Engagement, Lennox Berkeley and Riders to the Sea, Ralph Vaughan Williams

2004–05
Zemire und Azor (Beauty and the Beast), Louis Spohr
A Month in the Country, Lee Hoiby

2003–04
Mirandolina, Bohuslav Martinu
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Benjamin Britten

2002–03
Béatrice et Bénédict, Hector Berlioz
The Seagull, Thomas Pasatieri

2001–02
Der Wildschütz, Albert Lortzing
Amelia Goes to the Ball, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Roman Fever, Robert Ward

2000–01
The Rape of Lucretia, Benjamin Britten
The House of Seven Gables, Scott Eyerly

 

Students accepted into the Opera Theatre also have the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive outreach training program, including Discover Opera! and an abridged classic opera, Amato’s Opera-in-Brief.

Other important elements of the opera program are the Opera Workshop and Opera Lab, which provide appropriate venues for singers to develop stagecraft and dramatic interpretation as well as gain additional performance experience.

Kate Aldrich (Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Colón)
Liam Bonner (Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, English National Opera)
J’nai Bridges (Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera)
Andrea Carroll (Houston Grand Opera, Wiener Staatsoper)
Anthony Roth Costanzo (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, English National Opera)
Lauren Flanigan (Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, La Scala)
Susan Graham (Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Paris Opera)
Soloman Howard (Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera)
Lauren Jelencovich (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis)
Sol Jin (Metropolitan Opera)
Brandon Jovanovich (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Oper Berlin)
Kathleen Kim (Metropolitan Opera)
Catherine Malfitano (Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Paris Opera; Voice Faculty, MSM)
Johanna Meier (Metropolitan Opera, Bayreuth)
Laquita Mitchell (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Comique)
Simon O’Neill (Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala),
Kyle Pfortmiller (Metropolitan Opera)
Amy Shoremount-Obra (Metropolitan Opera)
Krysty Swann (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago)
Dawn Upshaw (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Salzburg Festival)
Yunpeng Wang (Metropolitan Opera)
Matthew Worth (Dallas Opera, Atlanta Opera)
Dolora Zajick (Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago)

View the MSM Opera Theatre discography, professionally produced and released on Albany Records, here.