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Opera Program The
Flora L. Thornton Opera Program at Pepperdine offers a many-faceted
approach to the development of the young singing actor. Performance
opportunities each year in fully-staged productions of opera and
musical theatre, summer study abroad and exposure to top
professionals in the field are hallmarks of the program.
Faculty members have extensive experience in many of the world’s
leading opera houses. Recent opera productions, designed or
supervised by an award-winning resident professional staff, have
included Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Abduction from the Seraglio
and Così fan tutte, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Humperdinck's
Hänsel and Gretel. One unique aspect of the program is the close
cooperation of the Music and Theatre departments. All productions in
both areas are cast by open audition.
Recent graduates are already making their way at some of the
nation's finest young artist programs, graduate schools and
conservatories, including the Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera,
Seattle Opera, Yale Graduate Opera Program, New England Conservatory,
Peabody Institute, Northwestern University, Rice University, UCLA and
USC. Since there is no graduate music program at Pepperdine,
Pepperdine graduates can enter graduate programs with lots of
on-stage experience behind them!
Summer Opera Institute
Students have the opportunity to study opera
abroad in the summers at one of the University's campuses in
Heidelberg or Florence. Every other year the Summer Opera Program
provides students the opportunity for intensive study of operatic
repertoire and acting techniques. Initiated in the summer of 1998,
the Summer Opera Program brings students in contact with artists from
the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, European opera houses
and the Broadway Musical Theater. The summer program alternates among
the Pepperdine campuses in Malibu, Heidelberg and Florence.
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