Opera and Musicals
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. The full productions we have done, some of which we have repeated, are:
| 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 |
| Otto Nicolai | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Leroy Ostransky | The Melting of Molly |
| Thomas Pasatieri | La Divina The Women Signor Del |
| Edwin Penhorwood | Too Many Sopranos |
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Giovanni Pergolesi Cole Porter |
La Serva Padrona Anything Goes |
| Henry Purcell | Dido and Aenaes |
| Frederick Smetana | The Bartered Bride |
| Steve Sondheim | Into the Woods |
| Johann Strauss | Die Fledermaus |
| Kurt Weill | Down in the Valley Three Penny Opera |
| R. Vaughan Williams | Riders to the Sea |
