Opera & Musical Theater

The School of Music at Puget Sound vocal graduates have pursued successful careers that have taken them to opera houses both domestically and abroad, and to the concert hall stage, in addition to summer stock productions, and to traveling companies. 

Since 1974, 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 every third year. Some of the repertoire has included:

  • Semour Barab
    The Toyshop
    A Game of Chance
  • Samuel Barber
    A Hand of Bridge
  • Aaron Copland
    The Tender Land
  • John Gay
    The Beggers Opera
  • Gilbert and Sullivan
    Trial by Jury
    The Mikado
    Patience
    The Pirates of Penzance
  • Gustav Holst
    The Wandering Scholar
  • Engelbert Humperdink
    Hansel and Gretel
  • John Kander
    Cabaret
  • Gerald Kechley
    The Golden Lion
  • Frank Loesser
    Guys and Dolls
  • Henri Mancini
    Victor Victoria
  • Gian Carlo Menotti
    The Old Maid and the Thief
    The Face on the Barroom Floor
  • Douglas Moore
    Gallantry
  • W.A. Mozart
    Act II Finale, Marriage of Figaro
    The Finta Giardiniera
    Cosi fan tutte
    The Magic Flute
  • Otto Nicolai
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Leroy Ostransky
    The Melting of Molly
  • Thomas Pasatieri
    La Divina
    The Women
    Signor Deluso
  • Edwin Penhorwood
    Too Many Sopranos!
  • Giovanni Pergolesi
    La Serva Padrona
  • Cole Porter
    Anything Goes
    Kiss Me, Kate
  • Henry Purcell
    Dido and Aenaes
  • Frederick Smetana
    The Bartered Bride
  • Stephen Sondheim
    Into the Woods
  • Johann Strauss
    Die Fledermaus
  • Kurt Weill
    Down in the Valley
    Three Penny Opera
  • R. Vaughan Williams
    Riders to the Sea