We are pleased to present to you a LIVE performance of opera scenes from various Broadway Musicals including Oklahoma, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Women, and more!

Patience is a pointed satire of the Aesthetic Movement, which flourished in mid-19th century England and United States. “Art for Art’s Sake” was its followers' motto. More than 135 years since its premiere, today’s audiences will still relate to the comedy as a brilliant send-up of any fad or movement be it Goth, Beatniks, Flower Children, or Pokemon

This double bill production featured the hilarious Impresario by Mozart followed by Ravel’s touching L’enfant et les sortilèges set during World War I.

Mozart's 1786 masterwork, The Marriage of Figaro, casts a revolutionary eye on privilege and rank. Based on a banned play by French author Beaumarchais, it describes Count Almaviva's efforts to revive the hated "doit du Seigneur," or the right of a nobleman to sleep wtih his servantgirls before they marry...

NDSU Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta HMS Pinafore on Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. Both performances are at Festival Concert Hall located in NDSU’s Reineke Fine Arts Center, 12th Avenue North and Bolley Drive...

In August 1959, Britten decided to compose a full-evening opera for the reopening of the refurbished Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh in June 1960. As this left no time for a libretto to be prepared anew, he chose to adapt with Peter Pears Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, though as he admitted at the time, he had always admired the original play and was excited by the various levels of action between the different groups of characters...

Chaos ensues in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi after an extremely wealthy man dies and the family searches frantically for the will.  After realizing he left his possessions to the local monastery, the family encourages Gianni Schicchi to impersonate the dead man long enough to change the will.  In the end, Schicchi agrees, but with consequences the greedy family had not foreseen...