Opera and Musical Theatre
The WSU Opera Workshop presents performances of opera and musical theatre, providing singers and actors with the opportunity to perform exciting repertoire while developing singing, acting and stage movement skills. After auditions, those singers whose voices are developed enough to perform in the production will be cast in scenes or full roles, according to their individual abilities.
Each fall the ensemble presents a production of operatic scenes and/or one-act operas. For Mom’s Weekend in the spring, a full production is presented, rotating between opera and musical theatre, accompanied by the WSU Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2002 the ensemble added a now annual summer musical theatre production to its offerings on campus. Auditions for the fall are held the week before classes begin while auditions for the spring and summer productions are held in the previous semester’s closed week before finals.
If you visit the WSU campus, please feel free to stop by one of our rehearsals. The class meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:10 – 5:00 p.m. in Kimbrough 115 or on the Bryan Hall Theatre stage.
Past Productions Include:
| 2023 | Once Upon a Mattress by Mary Rodgers |
| 2022 | The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan |
| 2021 | Keep Moving On! Songs by Stephen Sondheim |
| 2020 | The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon (cancelled due to COVID) |
| 2019 | A…My Name is Still Alice by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai | |
| 2018 | Nunsense II: The Second Coming by Dan Goggin Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim |
| 2017 | First Date by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks |
| 2016 | Life is a Cabaret: Songs of Kander and Ebb The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar |
| 2015 | Edges by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul The Addams Family by Andrew Lippa |
| 2014 | Beguiled Again by Rodgers and Hart Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss |
| 2013 | Song By Song By Sondheim Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| 2012 | I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan |
| 2011 | Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits by Gerard Alessandrini Company by Stephen Sondheim |
| 2010 | Shout! The Mod Musical by George, Lowenstein, and Morris Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach |
| 2009 | Gershwin Revue Jane Eyre by Paul Gordon and John Caird |
| 2008 | Baby by David Shire Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert |
| 2007 | Nunsensations! by Dan Goggin Godspell by Stephen Schwartz |
| 2006 | Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti |
| 2005 | You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman |
| 2004 | High Society by Cole Porter Carmen by Georges Bizet |
| 2003 | Lucky Stiff by Stephen Flaherty Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim |
| 2002 | She Loves Me by Jerry Bock Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss |
| 2001 | Company by Stephen Sondheim The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon |
| 2000 | The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 1998 | Susannah by Carlisle Floyd |
