Opera Workshop Ensemble

Welcome to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Opera Workshop Ensemble

Each semester, the Opera Workshop Ensemble offers performing opportunities for students interested in broadening their operatic and music theatre knowledge and experience. In the fall semester, the workshop, which meets as a class four hours a week, produces a scenes program or a one-act opera with piano. Full productions with orchestra in the spring semester alternate annually between musical theatre and opera in collaboration with the Theatre area. Recent productions include Pirates of Penzance, Cabaret, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, The Mother of Us All, The Magic Flute, A Little Night Music, The Merry Widow, and many others. Also a part of the Opera Workshop program is its outreach arm, Opera on Wheels. This touring ensemble travels to elementary schools throughout western Wisconsin, giving many children their first opera experience and teaching them about the fundamentals of opera.

Involvement in the Opera Workshop program is open to all UW-Eau Claire students by audition. For further information, please contact Opera Workshop director Dr. Mitra Sadeghpour (msadeghp@uwec.edu).

2007-2008 Opera Workshop Events

October 20, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
For ticket information contact the Chippewa Valley Symphony, 715/832-6366.

The Opera Workshop Ensemble will join the Chippewa Valley Symphony, Minnesota Opera guest artists, and conductor Nobuyoshi Yasuda for Act I of one of the most popular operas of all time! Join us for the party!

October 23, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Guest Artist Recital: Valerie Errante, soprano, and Jeffry Peterson, piano
Gantner Concert Hall
Free Admission.

November 12 & 13, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
Gantner Concert Hall
Free Admission.

The Opera Workshop Ensemble presents a full production of the tragedy of the doomed love story of the Trojan prince and the Queen of Carthage. Directed by Mitra Sadeghpour, Music Direction by Jessica Riley, Choreography by Toni Poll-Sorensen.

February 28-March 1 & March 5-8, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
March 2, 2008, 1:30 p.m.
The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
Gantner Concert Hall
For ticket information contact the University Service Center, 715/836-3727.

A Theatre Arts area mainstage production. Directed by Terry Allen, Music Direction by Mitra Sadeghpour, Choreography by Toni Poll-Sorensen.

Fridays in April and May
The Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart

Opera on Wheels, UW-Eau Claire's touring children's opera program, will present a version of The Magic Flute to fifteen elementary schools in Western Wisconsin. Directed by Jessica Riley.

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Contact Information:
Dr. Mitra Sadeghpour
Director of Opera and Musical Theatre
255 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-3711
Email: msadeghp@uwec.edu