Lamont Opera Theatre

Tonight and tomorrow, our voice students will perform their final concerts of the school year. Join us for a potpourri of musical theatre and Spanish repertoire!

Both performances will be held in Hamilton Hall at 7:30pm. General admission is free.
Please refer to the link for more details and livestream link!
https://liberalarts.du.edu/node/37302

For our final impact project of the year, a few of our students volunteered to perform a small soirée for the residents at MorningStar: Assisted Living & Memory Care!

Thank you to our singers who made the evening magic and performed a beautiful concert. Also, a huge shout out to Dr. Teresa Crane for performing with us!!!

Join us Saturday, May 17th at 1:30pm for an incredible Masters Recital featuring Boleros, French chansons, German lieder, and romance!!

Soprano and student of Prof. Heidi Melton, Claudia de Lourdes, will be performing a variety of works by renowned western classical and Latin-American Composers such as Wolf, Strauss, Mozart, Rexach, Grever, and more!
She will be accompanied by the incredible Dr. Beth Nielsen, with guest musicians, Yudai Leonzon (violin), Antonio Bustillo (guitar), Andrew Ferdig and Matthew Sousa (percussion), and Jane Wee (Mezzo-soprano).

For more details & livestream, refer to the link below:
https://liberalarts.du.edu/node/37438
We hope to see you

Join us on Sunday, May 19th, at 4:30pm in Hamilton Recital Hall for an exciting Performance Certificate recital by Dr. Daniel McDonnalll, accompanied by Dr. Beth Nielsen! 🚀
You do not want to miss this!!!

In 1977 a team of scientists and engineers launched the most ambitious space odyssey of all time. It’s called Voyager. This mission was to explore the outer planets of our solar system for the first time, and then to leave the solar system to become the first object created by humanity to travel through interstellar space.
In Dr. McDonnall’s upcoming recital, “Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground: Music and the Voyager Spacecraft”, we will tell the story of Voyager using a series of lectures, videos, images taken by Voyager, and of course, music.

Today!!!!

Masters student, Megan Pryor will be performing her Graduate Recital alongside Dr. Beth Nielsen and John Griffin on Clarinet.

Please join us in Hamilton Recital Hall at 4:30pm or catch the livestream!
https://youtube.com/live/d5dUuEh7Vno?feature=share

“Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.” ✨

One last chance to catch Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” performed by our closing cast! So proud of everyone’s hard work and dedication to share this magical world with our audiences. Get your tickets now to see our 2:30pm (MST) matinee!

Purchase tickets here: https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/opera-theatre

Watch the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/-GY6O0lTPPA?si=B522aSft8Gsn3V5m

Bravi tutti to Thursday/Saturday cast!

You have one more chance to catch Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 2:30pm (MST) tomorrow! You do not want to miss another magical performance from our closing cast!

Get your tickets now!: https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/opera-theatre

Watch the livestream!: https://www.youtube.com/live/-GY6O0lTPPA?si=B522aSft8Gsn3V5m

“What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?” ✨🧝🏻‍♀️

TONIGHT, our opening cast will perform their final performance of Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. We are so proud and happy to see their hard work create a magical world for our audience! Get your tickets now to catch our 7:30pm (MST) show.

Set design by: Matthew S. Crane
Costume Design: Delcinea Lutes & Myrna Schulte
Wigs/Makeup by: Natacha Condór
Lighting by: Emily Maddox
Set construction by: Steven McDonald & DU student interns

Ticket info: https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/opera-theatre
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/HTAjTqR9iI0?si=4mxkWepSBCiGeran

“Hard handed men, that work in Athens here, which never labour’d in their minds till now” 🤓

There are only two performances left and I promise you, you do not want to miss what the Rustics are up to. We hope to see you tonight at 7:30pm or tomorrow for our matinee at 2:30pm (MST)!

Get your tickets here!: https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/opera-theatre

Today’s livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/HTAjTqR9iI0?si=xOf_dhvbyxmy8mSq

“Come, now a roundel and a fairy song” 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

I’m excited to introduce our fairy kingdom! Here are some highlights from dress rehearsals with our opening cast this past week.

Oberon, King of Shadows is played by Rex Man
Tytania, Fairy Queen is played by Megan Pryor and Aoife Shanley

Costume design by the incredible Delcinea Lutes and Myrna Schulte
Wigs/Makeup by Natacha Condor

Performance #2 is tonight at 7:30pm, get your tickets now!
https://www.du.edu/events/lamont-opera-theatre-presents-midsummer-nights-dream-0

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” 🤭

2 more days until opening night of Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”!
📸: Jane Wee

Get your tickets now:
liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/opera-theatre
Lamont School of Music, University of Denver

Just two days until the opening of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Benjamin Britten! Have you gotten your tickets yet?
liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/opera-theatre
Lamont Opera Theatre

“The course of true love never did run smooth…” ✨🧚🏻‍♀️💘

Dress rehearsals are finally here! Please join us April 25th-28th for magical performances of Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
For details and ticket info, refer to link below:
https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/performances-events/calendar

Pictures by: Jane Wee and Maya Muñoz

From staging rehearsals, to Load-ins and sitzprobes…. We are finally in tech week!!! All students and faculty involved have been working incredibly hard to bring Benjamin Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to life!

Get your tickets now!!!
https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/performances-events/calendar

Let the countdown begin!

The Lamont Opera Theatre Program and Lamont Symphony Orchestra are working incredibly hard to bring a Shakespeare’s adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten to Gates Concert Hall. Performances will be April 25th, 26th, and 27th at 7:30pm, and a final performance on April 28th at 2:30pm.

For more details & ticket purchases, please refer to the link below:
https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/performances-events/calendar

Today!!!

Voice faculty, Professors Heidi Melton and Sahar Nouri are performing a recital at 4:30pm in Hanmilton Recital Hall. The recital will feature works by Sibelius, Korngold, Debussy, and more!

Details & ticket info are linked below:
https://liberalarts.du.edu/node/37099

2nd yr. M.M. student, Aoife Shanley, has organized a benefit concert featuring our voice students and Dr. Beth Nielsen. The benefit concert is for Providence Network, a transitional housing organization in Denver that help men, women, and children overcome addiction, domestic violence, and homelessness.

This event will take place in St. Gabriel the Archangel Episcopal Church at 1:30pm. It will also be live-streamed on Facebook starting at 1:15pm!

Voice faculty, Heidi Melton and Sahar Nouri are performing a recital tomorrow evening at 4:30pm! Get your tickets now!!!

This Sunday, it's our first faculty recital of the quarter! Heidi Melton and Sahar Nouri perform works by Sibelius, Korngold, Debussy, and more.
Details & tickets: liberalarts.du.edu/node/37099

TONIGHT AT 7:30PM IN HAMILTON RECITAL HALL!!!
2nd yr. M.M. student, Benjamin Swain will be performing his Masters recital alongside Dr. Beth Nielsen! This recital will feature works by Hoiby, Schumann, Ravel, and Lisinski.

Program & Livestream can be found in link below:
https://liberalarts.du.edu/node/37365

See you there!

Congratulations to alum, Randy Ho!!

Join us tomorrow night for another recital!

Undergraduate Senior, Dana Portnoy, will perform her recital tomorrow night at 7:30pm in Hamilton Recital Hall w/ collaborative pianist, Dr. Cody Garrison.
Her recital is themed: Mercurial Music

Mercurial Music is about taking a night to read between the lines, and through the universal language of music, be able to tap into those places where conflicting emotions exist together in dissonant harmony. Feeling like bittersweetness and nostalgia. Desperately seeking vulnerable connection, but fearing the consequences of the truth. Believing someone close to you has your best interests in mind, yet doubting their intentions are pure. Wanting to share your life with someone despite people close to you disapproving. Sitting with these feelings and realizing none of us are alone in our struggles is crucial to a fulfilling life and finding inner peace. I hope to see you there!

For more info, refer to the link below:
https://liberalarts.du.edu/node/37235

You DO NOT want to miss this program tomorrow night at 7:30pm (MST)!
Join us for a wonderful night of exciting opera scenes and arias!!!

Tomorrow night!
Hope to see you there!!!

Our first performance of the new year is coming up!

Our student singers and vocal faculty have been working incredibly hard to put on a great performance of opera scenes! The production will feature works by Strauss, Massenet, Mozart, Korngold, and more!

We hope to see you on February 1st in Hamilton Recital Hall at 7:30pm (MST)!

This event will be live-streamed, please refer to the link below for further info.
https://liberalarts.du.edu/node/37119

This week! You don’t want to miss it!!!

The students of Lamont Opera Theatre give their first performance of the new year this Thursday! Works by Massenet, Offenbach, Gounod, Strauss, Korngold, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorák, Lehar, and more.
Details: bit.ly/4bqG6r5