Harry Silverstein, Director
Always a venue for exceptional talent, DePaul Opera Theatre produces three full-length operas each year. Repertoire has included Carmen, La Bohème, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Candide and the U.S. premiere of an opera by Philip Glass. In years past, musical theater productions have been produced, directed, conducted, and performed annually by students with faculty supervision. Productions have included Into the Woods, The Fantasticks, Sweeney Todd, and Little Women. The DePaul Opera Theatre performs in the new Sasha and Eugene Jarvis Opera Hall, one of the few wholly redesigned and dedicated vocal rehearsal and performance space for recitals, concerts and opera productions on a college campus.
Graduates of DePaul Opera Theatre are currently performing with such opera companies as the Metropolitan, Chicago Lyric, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Houston, Dallas, and Santa Fe. The opera program is led by Harry Silverstein, who has directed at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, and English National Operas and for companies in Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and The Netherlands.
Membership in DePaul Opera Theatre is open to all DePaul students, subject to audition.