OU Opera

OU Opera is excited to announce our 2026-27 season! Join us in December for a Christmas-themed Die Fledermaus set in 1940s Hollywood with a brand new English script written especially for this production! And then in March, you don't want to miss the modern world staged premiere and US premiere of Il re pastore, written in 1756 by Maria Teresa Agnesi! The cast lists are up, and we are thrilled to bring you another exciting season!

Our opera scenes concert is tonight!!

Our final pair of opera scenes are by modern day composers, Luisa Matthynssens and Mason Bates, who explore different methods of incorporating the theme of ‘technology’ into their works. We are also incredibly excited to have Luisa with us in the audience tonight!🤩🤩🤩

🗓️TODAY April 28th, 2026
📍Pitman Recital Hall

Our next pair of scenes were written in the 19th/20th century!

Join us tomorrow night for performances of Ethel Smyth’s Fête Galante and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Scroll to learn more about these fantastic composers!

🗓️ TOMORROW April 28th, 2026
📍Pitman Recital Hall

Next up, we have some scenes from the Romantic Era!

We’ll be performing scenes written by Pauline Viardot and Jules Massenet from settings of the well-loved fairy-tale, Cinderella! Scroll to learn a bit more about how each composer’s respective opera compares to the other 👉

Two Sides of the Glass Ceiling opens this Tuesday at 7:30 PM, so mark your calendars. 🤩🤩

Our second set of scenes were written in the 18th Century. Our students will be performing 2 scenes from opera settjngs of Metastasio’s Il re pastore. Mozart’s rendition is more widely known, but we will also be performing a scene from Maria Teresa Agnesi’s work, which has never been performed in the U.S.! 😮🎶 Scroll to learn a bit more about Agnesi👉

Come see our scenes program this Tuesday at 7:30 PM!

Our spring opera scenes program, Two Sides of the Glass Ceiling, is next Tuesday, April 28th!

Our first pair of scenes are both from the Baroque period, contrasting operas written by Francesca Caccini and George Frederic Handel 🎶
Scroll to read more about these composers 🤩

🗓️7:30 PM, April 28th
📍Pitman Recital Hall
🎟️Free!

Come out to Gothic Hall today and buy a dirty soda to support our OU SNOA chapter!

Scroll to see some fun, opera-themed flavor combos you could try ☺️

Support the OU SNOA Chapter!

Join us this Monday in the Catlett Lounge to purchase dirty sodas themed after some of your favorite operas! We hope to see you there 😎🥤

OU Opera Presents: TWO SIDES OF THE GLASS CEILING, Opera Scenes by Woman and Men through the Ages

Join us on April 28th as our talented OU music students showcase a series of opera scenes written by men and women from the 1600s all the way to the present-day. We are incredibly excited for the opportunity to perform some underrepresented works by women composers, like Caccini, Agnesi, Viardot, Smyth, and Matthynssens, in parallel to some more well-known composers like Handel, Mozart, Massenet, Leoncavallo, and Bates. 🎶🤩

OKCity Opera and OU Opera present a night of drinking and opera singing!!!🎶🍸

Come see some local opera singers perform at ONE Bar, in the Noun Hotel, this Friday at 8PM! Check out the link below to buy tickets or get your tickets at the door 🎟️😎

Link to Tickets: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/okcityopera/the-face-on-the-barroom-floor-drinking-songs?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcAREz1dleHRuA2FlbQMxMDAAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTY3MDY3MzQzMzUyNDI3AAGn1CIKaDeK1JQ8vcnjfAG9Q67yl0iVt3aL_t7nq4KDNtZTRiJAmrjEgqAA9Fo_aem_8CfG_NMXa2u4Nfssi5XzNA