Opera

Portland State University Opera is nationally renowned for its innovative and fully staged productions, successful alumni, and an extraordinary faculty who teach from decades of career experience as successful singers. Alumni from this program have been Grammy Award Winners, National winners for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and singers with international careers including houses like Covent Garden, the Salzburg State Theater, the Frankfurt opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Opera.

Performance Opportunities

We are the only college in the Northwest to present two fully staged operas per year, plus an opera scenes workshop to an enthusiastic and robust community of opera lovers. Our productions are designed, built, and directed by distinguished artists in the profession of opera, allowing our students the same professional mentoring as the top conservatories throughout the nation. 

During fall term, the Chamber Opera production focuses on contemporary works, often from up-and-coming composers. The Spring Opera is a fully staged production, with a history of positive critical reviews and sell-out crowds to an enthusiastic and robust community of opera lovers.