UALR Opera Theatre offers training and performance opportunities in musical theater, in two separate courses:

Opera Workshop – a skill-based class in which students study stage movement, acting for opera, stage combat, audition techniques, scene study, improvisation and much more. This class is open to all voice students without audition or prerequisite.

Opera Performance – a chance for students to perform one of the great works of the lyric stage. There are two productions a year, in the fall and the spring. Students are cast through an open audition process in the semester preceding the production. During the 2007-8 academic year UALR Opera Theatre will be presenting

Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea with orchestra (November 9 & 11, 2007)

Johann Strauss, Jr's Die Fledermaus (The Bat) with orchestra (May 2 & 4, 2008)

Associate Professor Edward Crafts directs the UALR Opera Theatre. If you are interested in more information or are interested in volunteer or performing opportunities, please contact Mr. Crafts at (501) 569-3033 or email ejcrafts@ualr.edu.