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Student’s production calls out ‘Don Giovanni’s’ #MeToo problem

February 9, 2022

This version will highlight and comment on how the opera’s premise perpetuates violence against women and rape culture more broadly.

Two UW opera performances win national awards

January 12, 2017

UW-Madison’s University Opera is on a roll. Both shows from last year, Transformations and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, have won awards in the National Opera Association’s (NOA) Opera Production Competition for 2015-2016.

Farlow celebrates 10 years with campus opera

February 11, 2009

When other 11-year-olds were out doing whatever 11-year-olds did in 1960, Bill Farlow could be found in the library in El Paso, Texas, head buried in an opera score, following along to the music as he listened to the recording. “I had watched old opera movies on television, and El Paso had a fine symphony and opera. I started learning about opera 50 years ago and it took,” says Farlow.