Schwob Opera Theatre at Columbus State University

Schwob Opera Theatre at Columbus State University Schwob Opera Theatre is a performing ensemble at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University.

This ensemble performs full operatic works, opera outreach, and a variety of concert programs.

Join us for an exciting opera and musical theater scenes program today at 6:00pm in the River Center for the Performing ...
11/16/2025

Join us for an exciting opera and musical theater scenes program today at 6:00pm in the River Center for the Performing Arts Studio Theater! There is something for eveyrone to enjoy with the thrill of soaring voices, comedy, drama, and all the fun that live theater has to offer!

Join us this week as we welcome Michael Sumuel back to the stage of Legacy Hall!
09/08/2025

Join us this week as we welcome Michael Sumuel back to the stage of Legacy Hall!

Check out these exciting features about our upcoming operas at the Springer Opera House this weekend!
04/10/2025

Check out these exciting features about our upcoming operas at the Springer Opera House this weekend!

Schwob Opera Theatre at Columbus State University and the Schwob Opera Orchestra will present Suor Angelica and The Medi...
04/03/2025

Schwob Opera Theatre at Columbus State University and the Schwob Opera Orchestra will present Suor Angelica and The Medium at the historic state theater of Georgia, The Springer Opera House, on April 12 & 13, 2025. Join us for this incredible double bill of opera! Tickets are now available!

The 2025 Schwob Opera Theater spring season will be a double bill of exciting lyric dramas, Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini and The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti. These two iconic operas will be performed in collaboration with the Schwob Opera Orchestra led by Professor Paul Hostetter. Performances

04/03/2025
Congratulations to Rebecca Manseau, 2nd year MM in Voice Performance, on her selection as a semi-finalist for the Cascai...
02/21/2025

Congratulations to Rebecca Manseau, 2nd year MM in Voice Performance, on her selection as a semi-finalist for the Cascais Opera Competition in Portugal! The Cascais Ópera International Vocal Competition announced 44 candidates, hailing from 19 countries, chosen from a record 340 entries and totaling 49 countries. From April 23 to 30, Cascais will be the epicenter of operatic singing, welcoming candidates for a week of qualifying exams, masterclasses and a semi-finalists’ concert promoting the training and visibility of the participants. The competition culminates in the live Grand Final, on May 4, at 5 PM, in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Grand Auditorium, where the 8 finalists will perform some of the most iconic opera arias accompanied by the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Antonio Pirolli.

Congratulations to current opera graduate student, Rebecca Manseau, on her performance at the Banská Bystrica Štátna Ope...
01/07/2025

Congratulations to current opera graduate student, Rebecca Manseau, on her performance at the Banská Bystrica Štátna Opera in the Czech Republic. She performed arias from Rusalka, Carmen, and Don Giovanni in concert with the State Opera Orchestra as one of the award winners of the International Singing Competition of Gabriela Beňačková! Rebecca will perform the role of Suor Angelica in our upcoming production this spring! Brava!
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Congrats to our all involved in our production of Hansel and Gretel! Our production has been named the 2nd Place Award W...
11/09/2024

Congrats to our all involved in our production of Hansel and Gretel! Our production has been named the 2nd Place Award Winner by the American Prize!

Happy World Opera Day!
10/26/2024

Happy World Opera Day!

Join us next week for this exciting performance!
10/25/2024

Join us next week for this exciting performance!

Congrats to our SSOM students, Rebecca Manseau (1st year MM Voice Performance) and Rachel Ward (Senior BM Performance), ...
07/01/2024

Congrats to our SSOM students, Rebecca Manseau (1st year MM Voice Performance) and Rachel Ward (Senior BM Performance), on their beautiful performances in the masterclass at FIO-Italia in Urbania, Italy! They sang for Ernesto Palacio, the current Intendant of the Rossini Opera Festival!

ABOUT: During Palacio's singing career, his repertoire included about 80 works and over 100 oratorios, masses, and other vocal compositions. He recorded 40 titles and has performed in major opera houses, including La Scala, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma Opera House, San Carlo (Naples), Teatro Regio (Turin), Teatro Comunale (Bologna), Arena (Verona), La Fenice, Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Covent Garden, Liceu, Colon, Zurich Opera House, and the Bayerischer Staatsoper).

After closing his singing career, Palacio discovered numerous prominent artists of the new bel canto generation and is considered one of the leading international experts on Rossinian vocality. He has been the Intendant of the Rossini Opera Festival since 2017.

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Schwob Opera Theatre at CSU

Schwob Opera Theatre is a performing ensemble at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. This ensemble performs full operatic works and programs of scenes from the standard literature, a touring children’s opera production, workshops of new/contemporary operas, and musical theatre. Schwob Opera Theatre is under the direction of Dr. Joshua May. We perform major operatic productions with orchestra in Bill Heard Hall, Studio Theatre, and Legacy Hall in the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. As part of our artistic training, undergraduate and graduate students work with faculty and guest artists on the development of their stagecraft through acting, dance/movement, stage combat, and stage makeup for the singing actor. Annual productions of opera, operetta, or musical theater provide a culminating experience for the young artists in our program. Recent productions from our opera seasons include Speed Dating Tonight! (Ching), Cendrillon by (Viardot), La finta giardiniera (Mozart), Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), and Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti). If you are interested to find out more about this ensemble, please contact Dr. Joshua May at [email protected].

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