2023 -2024 Season

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Fall 2023 Performance Dates

La Bohème (Act II) on Choralcopia concert

Location: Gusman Concert Hall

Date: October 6, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Buchman, interim program director & stage director

Jennifer Grover, conductor

Featuring Frost Opera Theater students, with support from Frost Symphonic Choir


Night at the Next Whiskey Bar: a modern tapestry

Location: Clarke Recital Hall

Dates: November 15 and 16, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Buchman, interim program director & stage director
 

Student performers display their command of musical and theatrical talents in a carefully crafted dramatic narrative that brings together a wide range of excerpts from repertoire ranging from classic opera and operetta to modern opera and musical theater. The show tells the story of a single night in a whiskey bar through vignettes that are woven together to bring this modern tapestry to life

Spring 2024 Performance Dates

Street Scene

Music by Kurt Weill, Lyrics by Langston Hughes, based on a book by Elmer Rice

Location: Gusman Concert Hall

Dates: February 29, 2024 & March 2, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Buchman - interim program director & stage director

Frost Symphony Orchestra -Yun Xuan Cao, conductor

Featuring Frost Opera Theater students

 

Stained Glass (world premiere)

Music by Shawn Crouch, Libretto by Dana Kaufman

Jeffrey Buchman - interim program director & stage director

In collaboration with the Frost Chamber Series - Jeffrey Zeigler, director

Location: Hormel Innovation Stage at the Knight Center for Music Innovation

Date: March 26, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Featuring Frost Opera Theater students

This world-premiere opera uses the powerful ability of innovative technology, including video mapping and augmented reality, to tell the story of Mamah Borthwick, lover and partner of Frank Lloyd Wright, as she battled with the challenges of pursuing a meaningful life, and the tragedy that ultimately was to be her fate in Taliesin, the home Frank Lloyd Wright ironically built as a safe haven for them.