UNA Voice, Opera & Musical Theatre

a bittersweet time of year, but joy and pride are the overwhelming feelings for our most recent graduates from the UNA Voice Area. congratulations to (BM in Vocal Performance & Musical Theatre Certificate), (BS in Education, Choral Music P-12), and (BS in Music)! we will miss your amazing contributions to , and your leadership in the Voice Area, but we cannot wait to watch you thrive and create and make the world a better place. roar lions!!! 🦁 🎓🦁🎓

tonight! 7:30 pm in the recital hall: presents her senior recital!!! the program features a wonderful mix of classical repertoire in Italian, French, and German as well as musical theatre repertoire ranging from Cole Porter to Anais Mitchell! open to the public and admission is free!

the UNA Voice Area showed up for AlaNATS Student Auditions at the university of south alabama in mobile this weekend! eight students auditioned in classical, musical theatre, and BIPOC composer categories. everyone sang beautifully with some singers placing in their categories: Cevahni McNeill: Fifth Place in musical theatre, Lucy Cottingham: Third Place in musical theatre, and Giselle O’Shea Fuqua: Third Place in musical theatre, Second Place in classical, and First Place in BIPOC composer categories !!! 🦁🦁🦁

the UNA Voice Area is thrilled to welcome Dr. Carol Anderson this week for a Master Class and Musicale! Dr. Anderson is the newly appointed Assistant Professor in Vocal Diction, Coaching, Literature, and Collaboration at the University of Utah, and she has over two decades of experience in opera and coaching with companies like Santa Fe Opera and Utah Opera. both events are Wednesday, February 18; please join us!

another semester ends . . . congratulations to .lt3 and for graduating yesterday! it was a beautiful day to celebrate: Natalie Thrasher received her Bachelor’s of Music degree in Vocal Performance, and Laci New received her Bachelor’s of Science in Education degree in Choral Music P-12. roar lions! 🦁🦁🦁

you have another opportunity to hear some more spectacular singing from the UNA Voice Area: Friday, November 21 @ 5:30 pm in the Music Building Recital Hall! this recital has everything from Vivaldi to Ives to Jason Robert Brown . . . and the premiere of a new original song by !!! admission is free; we’ll see you there!

you are invited to a 🌜dreamy 🌜senior recital Thursday night @ 7:30 pm in the Music Building Recital Hall . . . daydreams, night dreams, lucid dreams, bizarre dreams: you’ll hear it all from familiar composers including Debussy and Haydn to lesser-known composers including Grothe and Beydts. admission is free; please join us!

tonight! 7:30 pm! norton auditorium! G O’Shea Fuqua presents her senior recital in partial fulfillment of the BM in Vocal Performance. admission is free. you won’t want to miss this recital!

Attention northern and central Alabama high school students preparing Trumbauer auditions: it isn't too late to register for the free Trumbauer audition workshop at UNA this Saturday. We'll have music and theatre faculty leading group sessions focusing on acting, improv, and vocal exercises plus mock auditions and maybe even the opportunity to perform in master class settings. Complete the online form using the tinyurl to register! 🎭🎭🎵🎭🎵

We are so excited to welcome another guest artist this semester: Philip McCown, tenor, who will teach a master class featuring UNA Voice Area Students. The master class is free and open to the public: we look forward to some great singing from UNA students and great teaching from Mr. McCown!