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Senior Emma Commisso writes about how MTD students can make the field of opera even more exciting through collaboration.

Commentary: Opera is an exciting art form for all performers

By Emma Commisso • January 24, 2024
Opera challenges its performers to constantly connect to the music and discover what each measure means to their character. Performers of many different skill sets are up for this challenge and could revitalize the opera industry. 
Senior Monica Ramich plays the maid, Laetitia, in “The Old Maid and the Thief.” Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti wrote the show in 1939 for radio.

IC Theatre Arts performs two one-act operas

By Olivia Riggio, Life & Culture Editor • February 28, 2019

A wealthy woman and her maid take in a handsome beggar and go to absurd and hilarious lengths to compete for his love. A fraudulent medium abuses her mute foster son and eventually slips into insanity...

Performers form a human centipede during rehearsals for “Semele,” MainStage Theatre’s first show of the semester, directed by R.B. Schlather.

Ithaca College takes on opera in “Semele”

By Alexandria Kemp, Contributing Writer • February 17, 2016
Ithaca College's School of Music and MainStage Theatre will be presenting the first show of the semester, "Semele," a baroque opera by G.F. Handel.
Students in the Opera Workshop course rehearse for their first show on Nov. 19. A semesterlong course, the performance will feature pieces from American composers.

Students to perform new American operas

By Allison Falk, Contributing Writer • November 17, 2015
Students in the Opera Workshop course will be putting on a show featuring American works from new American composers that have not yet been performed or recorded.
Zach James, general director of Opera Ithaca, and Megan Nielson play Bluebeard and Judith, respectively, in Opera Ithaca's production of "Bluebeard's Castle." The show was Opera Ithaca's first production and ran Oct. 18–19.

New professional group revives opera in Ithaca area

By Cristina Saltos, Contributing Writer • October 22, 2014
Fifteen years after the Ithaca Opera closed its doors, a new group, Opera Ithaca, is filling the opera void in the area.
Seniors Eric Flyte, Shelley Attadgie and junior Rachel Ozols play King Ouf, Laoula and Lazuli, respectively, in the Main Stage Theater production of "L'etoile." In the opera, Laoula and Lazuli are lovers.

Quirky French operetta hits Main Stage Theater

By Alyvia Covert, Contributing Writer • February 19, 2014
The Ithaca College Main Stage Theater production of "L'etoile" comically explores the topics of love and faith.
Theater department and School of Music stage opera performances

Theater department and School of Music stage opera performances

By Jackie Eisenberg and Anikah Shaokat, Accent Editor and Contributing Writer • February 21, 2013
Ithaca College theater department collaborates with the School of Music to perform two one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini.
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