The School of Music at Puget Sound actively trains and develops students interested in opera, operetta, and musicals. Our graduates have pursued successful careers that have taken them to major opera houses domestically and abroad, to summer stock productions, and to traveling companies.
Since 1974, forty performances of operas and musicals have been produced, either within the School of Music or, in the case of musicals, in collaboration with the Department of Theatre Arts. We also produce an annual scenes recital featuring excerpts from operas, operettas, and musicals.
In 2012, the School of Music's Opera & Musical Theater was granted the American Prize for Best Collegiate Production, for W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. Watch this award winning production on YouTube: Act I | Act II
The full productions we have done, some of which we have repeated, are:
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Semour Barab Samuel Barber Aaron Copland The Tender Land John Gay Gilbert and Sullivan Gustav Holst Engelbert Humperdink John Kander Gerald Kechley Frank Loesser Henri Mancini Gian Carlo Menotti Douglas Moore W.A. Mozart |
Otto Nicolai Leroy Ostransky Thomas Pasatieri Edwin Penhorwood Giovanni Pergolesi Cole Porter Henry Purcell Gioacchino Rossini Le Comte Ory Sater and Sheik Frederick Smetana Stephen Sondheim Johann Strauss Kurt Weill R. Vaughan Williams Jonathan Larson Rent |