Opera Workshop

Voice student Karen Dunstan in Vinkensport (Photo: Steve Korn).
Voice student Karen Dunstan in Vinkensport (Photo: Steve Korn).
UW Music 2017 Opera: Dido and Aeneas
Opera Workshop
UW Music 2017 Opera: Dido and Aeneas
Orphée et Eurydice UW School of Music
Opera Workshop
Turn of the Screw opera scene
UW voice students in scenes from Turn of the Screw (Photo: Steve Korn).

Opera Workshop participants receive instruction in theater, movement and dramatic arts. Contact voice instructor Carrie Shaw for audition information and add codes. 

Recent Productions

  • Winter 2025: Excerpts, Turn of the Screw; Hansel and Gretel
  • Winter 2024: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Les arts florissants (with UW Chamber Singers)
  • Winter 2023: Haydn, Philemon und Baucis
  • Spring 2022: David T. Little: Vinkensport
  • Winter 2020: American Portraits: Scenes and Arias from American Operas
  • Spring 2019: Auditions Project - Performance Arias
  • Spring 2019: Philip Glass: Hydrogen Jukebox
  • Winter 2019: Works in Process - American Portraits in Songs and Scenes
  • Autumn 2018: Italian Scenes and Arias
  • Spring 2018: Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortilèges
  • Winter 2018: Scenes from Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortilèges
  • Spring 2017: With professional opera company Pacific MusicWorks, a student cast production of Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
  • Winter 2017: Mozart Scenes
  • Spring 2016: With professional opera company Pacific MusicWorks, a student cast production of Gluck: Orphée
  • Winter 2016: With the UW's Orpheus Ensemble, staged scenes from Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto.
  • Winter 2016: Scenes from Macbeth, Suor Angelica, and The Merry Widow.
  • Spring 2015: With professional opera company Pacific MusicWorks, a student cast prodution of Mozart: The Magic Flute
  • Spring 2014: With professional opera company Pacific MusicWorks, a student cast production of Handel: Semele
  • Winter 2014: With the UW Symphony, a concert version of Puccini: Gianni Schicchi.
  • Winter 2013: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor, plus scenes from the opera repertoire
  • Autumn  2012: Johann Strauss, Die Fledermaus
  • Winter 2012: Benjamin Britten, Albert Herring
  • Autumn  2011: Gian Carlo Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
  • Autumn 2010: Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel

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