Program Overview
Opera Theater
Opera Theater program courses focus on various acting technique, musical style, linguistic accuracy, performance readiness, and audition skills. The faculty and coaches provide training in role study, movement and dance, staging, musicianship, directing, and diction and language skills. Each semester’s coursework culminates in a performance of scenes from the standard 18th- through 20th-century repertory and selected contemporary works.

Opera at the 'Sco featured an opera theater production of “Strawberry Fields’’ in which an elderly woman with dementia mistakes a bench in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields for her seat at the opera.
Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
Program Facts
- Program Type: Program
- Division: Vocal Studies
Program Director
Jonathon Field,Associate Professor of Opera Theater
Contact
- Cindy Shairba, Administrative Assistant
- (440) 775-8198
- Cindy.Shairba@oberlin.edu
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Opera Theater Faculty
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Thomas Bandy
Associate Professor of Vocal Accompanying
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Jonathon Field
Associate Professor of Opera Theater
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Christopher Mirto
Assistant Professor of Opera Theater
Opera Theater News
Like Only Oberlin Can
March 30, 2021
Conservatory students reflect on a remarkable fall semester—and stay vigilant through the spring.
Oberlin Vocalists Rise to the Top
January 15, 2021
First-year students secure top prizes in national and regional competitions.
Rhiannon Giddens '00 to Appear on Oberlin Stage Left
December 7, 2020
December 10 performance with Francesco Turrisi also features Giddens in conversation.