Butler Opera Center
Butler Opera Center
Verdi | Piave
La Traviata
OCT 18, 20, 25. 27
Song Re-imagined
The Shards of Love
Beethoven • Mussorgsky • Larsen • more...
Date To Be Announced
Hsu | Boyle
Audition Fever
Public premiere of an opera commission
and
Ravel | Colette
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
DEC 4 & 5
Corigliano | Hoffman
The Ghosts of Versailles
FEB 20, 22, 23
Mozart | Da Ponte
Le Nozze di Figaro
APR 17, 19, 25, 27
2023-2024
Twentieth Anniversary Season
Butler Opera Center
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa
Elio Bucky, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
Sung in Italian.
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Tamar Sanikidze, piano
Elio Bucky, director
Butler Opera Center students
Sergei Rachmaninov
Six romances, Op. 38
Manuel de Falla
Siete canciones populares Españolas
+ more...
& Opera Scenes
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Josíah Garza, composer
The world premiere of Garza's Maria will be performed alongside other opera scenes.
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Music by Tan Dun
Libretto by Tan Dun & Xu Ying
Minjeong Kim, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
New Music Ensemble
Sung in English.
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Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky after Alexander Pushkin
Garnett Bruce, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
Sung in Russian.
BOC In Action
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Follow Helen Sohyun Park, a second year DMA student in opera directing, as she directs Georges Bizet's "Carmen." Under the guidance of Butler Opera Center's outstanding faculty, students at the doctoral level have the opportunity to direct their own major productions, providing them with invaluable first-hand experience.
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We go behind the scenes to see how the Butler Opera Center's resident designer, Aaron Kubacak, creates costumes for shows. He designed all costumes for a recent production of "Elixir of Love," and will do the same for all of BOC's productions this season. Working closely with the show's director, Kubacak begins with research and drawings, then brings them to life.
Baritone Seunghee Lee at Butler Opera International
Mezzo-soprano Jill Morgan in the dressing room before a performance
Soprano Aarianna Longino during a masterclass with Maestro James Conlon
Soprano Chantal Freeman and Tenor Taiwon Kim in a coaching with Dr. Sanikidze
Soprano Yuxin Zhou in recital
Directing student Matthew Schulz behind the scenes during a performance