Opera Theatre
Established in 1997, GVSU Opera Theatre was founded to provide GVSU students who sing and act an opportunity to work with stage and music directors from the world of professional opera and theatre. Since 2014, the season has been expanded to include 2 main stage productions per academic year featuring classically based operatic works as well as traditional and new music theatre.
Students who are active in Opera Theatre throughout their undergraduate education have the opportunity to go to NYC to showcase for professional talent agents and casting directors as an opportunity to transition into the professional performance world after graduation. For more information about this opportunity, contact Dale Schriemer.
2022-2023 Opera Theatre Productions
A Minister's Wife
Based on the play Candida by George Bernard Shaw
Music by Joshua Schmidt, Lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, Book by Austin Pendleton
Directed by Dale Schriemer
October 28, 29 and November 4, 5 at 7:30 PM
October 30 and November 6 at 2:00 PM
Linn Maxwell Keller Black Box Theatre, Haas Center for Performing Arts
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss
February 17, 18, 24, and 25 at 7:30 PM
February 19 and 26 at 2:00 PM
Louis Armstrong Theatre, Haas Center for Performing Arts
Past Productions
Wonderful Town (2019), Photo by Samantha Brigham
Sweeney Todd (2017)
1997 Amahl and the Night Visitors
directed by Laura Salazar
1999 Into the Woods
directed by Ben Krywocz
2000 Saturn Returns (Trouble in Tahiti, Myths and Hymns)
directed by Ben Krywocz
2001 My Fair Lady
directed by Ben Krywocz
2002 The Bartered Bride
directed by Isabel Milenski
2003 Guys and Dolls
directed by Karen Babcock
2004 Street Scene
directed by Isabel Milenski
2005 The Secret Garden
directed by Karen Babcock
2006 Pirates of Penzance
directed by Isabel Milenski
2007 Ragtime
directed by Karen Babcock
2008 Candide
directed by Will Graham
2009 Into the Woods
directed by Karen Babcock
2010 The Boy who wouldn’t do his Homework (L’enfant et les Sortileges)
directed by Isabel Milenski
2011 The Light in the Piazza
directed by Dorothy Danner
2012 The Three Penny Opera
directed by Dorothy Danner
2013 Amahl and the Night Visitors
directed by Dale Schriemer
Urinetown
directed by Dorothy Danner
2014 The Magic Flute
directed by Karen Babcock
Company
directed by Karen Babcock
2015 Dido and Anneas
directed by Dale Schriemer
Godspell
directed by Christopher Chase Carter
2016 Gianni Schicchi
directed by Dale Schriemer
Sweeney Todd
directed by Christopher Chase Carter
2017 "A Kurt Weill Cabaret"
directed by Dale Schriemer
Oklahoma
directed by Christopher Chase Carter
2018 "Masquerade"
directed by Karen Libman
Wonderful Town
directed by Christopher Chase Carter
2019 Mother Goose and The Naughty Boy
directed by Dale Schriemer
2020 Working 2012
directed by Ericka Mac
2021 Songs for A New World
directed by Dale Schriemer
Side by Side by Sondheim
directed by Ericka Mac
Opera Theatre News
Photo by Kendra Stanley-Mills
GV Magazine Feature on OT Alum/Director, Chris Carter
This month's Grand Valley Magazine features a story on MTD Alum Christopher Chase Carter ('09, Dance), a Chicago-based director and choreographer who is putting his GVSU degree to good use.
Read more about his journey at the link:
https://www.gvsu.edu/gvmagazine/off-stage-presence.htm
For more information, please contact Dale Schriemer.