UTRGV Opera Theatre

05/01/2024

Come join UTRGV Opera Theatre this Sunday for a delightful repast of opera scenes! The menu will feature a selection of Mozart operas, including scenes from Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, with a dessert offering from Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Tickets are available at https://www.showpass.com/utrgv-opera-theater-performance-edinburg/

If you can't catch the show on Sunday, there will be another performance on Monday evening at 7:00!
Performances are at the UTRGV Performing Arts Complex in Edinburg on Sunday, May 5 (3:00pm) and also Monday, May 6 (7:00pm). We hope to see you there!

Music for the Stage: Mostly Mozart with an Ounce of Operetta! Join the UTRGV Opera Theater for a delightful repast of opera scenes! The menu will feature a selection of Mozart operas, including scenes from Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, with a ...

04/11/2024

It’s opening night here at the UTRGV Opera Theatre! We are thrilled to share these stories with you, and hope you’ll join us tonight at 7pm, or Sunday at 3pm!

You may purchase tickets in advance or at the door:
https://www.showpass.com/utrgv-opera-theater-performance-brownsville/

Toi toi toi to our singing artists!

Photos by Dr. Daniel Hunter-Holly 📸

04/07/2024

We LOVE working with composers at the UTRGV Opera Theatre! This past week, the students in our production of APRIL had the pleasure of working with the composer, Monica Pearce!

Monica Pearce is a Canadian composer specializing in opera, chamber music and everything toy-piano-related. She was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada, began her professional career in Toronto, and is currently based in Brownsville, Texas. Pearce’s work has been performed and commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, International Contemporary Ensemble, New Music Detroit, Array Ensemble, Talisker Players, Essential Opera, Bicycle Opera Project, TorQ Percussion Quartet, junctQín keyboard collective, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Ryan Scott, SHHH!! Ensemble, among others. Her operas have been performed across Canada and the United States, and her toy piano works are frequently played internationally.
For more information, please visit www.monicapearce.com

You can watch APRIL by Monica Pearce in our production INTIMATE ENTANGLEMENTS: A NIGHT OF ONE-ACTS, this Thursday, April 11 at 7:00pm, and next Sunday, April 14 at 3:00pm!

Photos taken by the fabulous Dr. Daniel Hunter-Holly.

03/31/2024

UTRGV Opera Theatre Presents:

Intimate Entanglements: A Night of One-Acts

We will present four one-act operas, including the US premiere of Monica Pearce’s APRIL and the Texas premiere of TJ Rubin and Laura Barati’s THIRST.

Join us Thursday, April 11 at 7:00pm, or Sunday, April 14 at 3:00pm!

11/24/2022

11/04/2022

HUGE congratulations to Louisa Muller, stage director on this fantastic production at Houston Grand Opera!!

Louisa has been a great friend to UTRGV Opera Theater, leading several master classes in Brownsville back in 2013 as well as teaching a class live from Vienna in Fall 2020, during the pandemic! We are always honored to learn from her!!

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Tonight's the night! Louisa Muller, stage director, brings her new and highly anticipated production of Dame Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers to Houston Grand Opera! Along with set and costume designer Christopher Oram and lighting designer Marcus Doshi, she brings Cornwall and its sea-faring residents to the Wortham Theater Center in the first production of this groundbreaking work by a major American Opera company. Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers leads a fantastic cast in this not-to-be missed run.

https://www.houstongrandopera.org/events-tickets/2022-23-season/the-wreckers/

📷: Shot By Bishop

11/04/2022

UTRGV Opera Theater’s “Portraits” pastiche is being developed!! 😉 Here is a sneak peak at some of the famous opera characters that will be featured in the show - and there are more to come!

The shows are November 19 & 20!

More information here: http://UTIX.me/l1kq3fdd3k1