Opera

PLU Opera offers two productions per academic year – a complete main stage opera with orchestra and an opera scenes program with piano in alternating semesters. Members participate in all facets of production, including set and costume design, staging and performance. The full productions are planned in a three-year cycle that includes early music, standard repertoire, and 20th/21st century.

Recent productions have included Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Handel’s Semele, Weill’s Street Scene, Britten’s Albert Herring, Handel’s Alcina, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, a world premiere production of Fiery Jade – Cai Yan by Gregory Youtz and Zhang Er, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Strauss, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, Handel’s Julius Caesar, Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.

PLU Opera also offers a Summer Opera Workshop every summer which is open to high school, college, and community singers in which students engage in acting and singing masterclasses. The workshop culminates in the performance of a full production with piano and a scenes performance.

Friday-Saturday, November 20-21, 2026 at 7:30pm

Location: Eastvold Auditorium, Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

PLU Opera presents An Evening of Opera Scenes from great operas and musicals. The program will explore famous scenes spanning romance, comedy, and high drama, and will feature some of the best young singers that PLU has to offer.

Barry Johnson directs.

Performances will be livestreamed via the following link: PLU | ARTS

Thursday-Saturday, January 28-30 at 7:30pm and Sunday, January 31, 2026 at 2pm

Location: Eastvold Auditorium, Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

PLU Opera presents Mozart’s beloved singspiel, The Magic Flute. Featuring some of the most famous and beloved music in all of operatic repertoire, comedy and adventure combine for a delightful and inspiring experience. Performed in English with full orchestra.

Barry Johnson, stage director and Jim Brown, conductor.

Performances will be livestreamed via the following link: PLU | ARTS

General Public $16 / Seniors (60+), Military, Alumni, PLU Faculty and Staff (limit 2) $12 / Immediate family of performs, 18 and under and under $8.
Tickets can be purchased online via the link below.