Performance
Worthington Family Foundation Opera Theatre Season
Each season, the MSU Opera Theatre presents two fully staged and costumed productions with the MSU Symphony Orchestra. Students fill two complete casts for each production, and performances are held in the historic Fairchild Theatre. The theatre is a beautifully renovated space featuring technically advanced acoustics in a small venue setting. With no bad seat in the house, opera-goers enjoy perfect sound and close proximity within air-conditioned comfort, while students in the cast and orchestra gain a professional performance experience.
The MSU Opera Theatre is supported by the Worthington Family Foundation.
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2023–2024 Season Performances
FALL: Sondheim’s A Little Night Music
11/15 Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.
11/17 Friday, 7:00 p.m.
11/18 Saturday, 7:00 p.m.
11/19 Sunday, 3:00 p.m.
Fairchild Theatre, MSU Auditorium $$$
More than a love triangle, the Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music is more like a love pentagon! Hilarious and heartbreaking, this work with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim is about a lusciously tangled web spun by an actress, her two lovers, and their wives. With captivating music featuring Send in the Clowns—one of the most recorded songs of all time—this production is witty, engaging, and ultimately a celebration of love.
Octavio Más-Arocas, conductor; stage director: Melanie Helton; set designer Ranae Selmeyer.
A Celebration of the Beautiful Voice
1/20 Saturday, 3:00 p.m.
Fairchild Theatre, MSU Auditorium $$$
In this gala event, vocalists pour their hearts into arias and scenes from classic and modern operas. Featured performers are senior and graduate student voices from the MSU Vocal Arts area.
SPRING: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
3/20 Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.
3/22 Friday, 7:00 p.m.
3/23 Saturday, 7:00 p.m.
3/24 Sunday, 3:00 p.m.
Fairchild Theatre, MSU Auditorium $$$
From the unparalleled mind of Mozart comes this opera considered by many to be one of the greatest of all time. Based on the escapades of libertine Don Juan, Don Giovanni follows the antics of an arrogant and sexually promiscuous nobleman who commits murder and dupes nearly every character in the cast. A brilliant mix of comedy, melodrama, and the supernatural that has left audiences breathless since its debut in 1787.
Generously sponsored by James and Susan Bonfiglio, and Susan Davis.
