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).

2008-2009 Opera Workshop Events

November 17, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Mayhem with Mozart
Gantner Concert Hall
Free Admission

Join the Opera Workshop Ensemble for an evening that turns Mozart on his ear! Scenes from Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Abduction from the Seraglio and other Mozart operas will be presented in a variety of original updated stagings.

February 26-28, March 5-7, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
March 8, 2009, 1:30 p.m.
Albert Herring
by Benjamin Britten
Gantner Concert Hall
For ticket information contact the University Service Center, 715/836-3727.

Laugh your way through the story of young British lad Albert Herring as he gets crowned the King of the May and breaks the apron strings all in one week! Our mainstage production of Britten’s hilarious comic opera will accompanied by Nobuyoshi Yasuda and the University Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

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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