UNLV Opera

That's it for our 2023-24 season. We'll see you in the fall! (📸: Richard Brusky)

Highlights from our opera scenes program To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (📷: Medel Aquino)

Check out our 2024-25 season announcement...

Save the date (May 3) for the final UNLV Opera event of the season, a scenes program featuring excerpts from The Fairy Queen, Hansel & Gretel, Iolanthe, and La sonnambula. https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-sleep-perchance-dream

Don't miss today's closing matinee at 2 pm! https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-1

It's opening night for Le Comte Ory, tonight at 7:30 pm. Don't miss the high notes and high jinks of Rossini's comedic opera! Tickets: https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

Get your tickets for Rossini's Le Comte Ory, playing March 8-9! https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0 (📸: Larry Henley, Director of UNLV Alumni Affairs)

Tomorrow is opening night! Learn more about Le Comte Ory in this feature including interviews with Christian Shelton (The Count) and Ana Elisa Portes (Isolier).

UNLV Opera presents 'Le Comte Ory' featuring its own TikTok star - UNLV Scarlet and Gray UNLV’s award-winning opera is preparing to stage “Le Comte Ory,” a medieval-themed play featuring UNLV’s TikTok star Christian Shelton in the leading role. The play, which is set during medieval times and narrates the stories of Count Ory, is directed by Linda Lister, director of Opera Theat...

In Le Comte Ory, the Count (Christian Shelton) disguises himself as a nun, evoking an operatic mashup of Sister Act and Some Like it Hot. https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0 (📸: Medel Aquino)

The Tutor (Chase Orlando Gutierrez) joins the Count in antics and disguises in Le Comte Ory https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0 (📸: Medel Aquino)

Opening this Friday March 8: Rossini's comedy Le Comte Ory. Tickets: https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0 (📸: Medel Aquino)

Wondering what Le Comte Ory is about? This collage by assistant director Olivia Yokers explores the themes of Rossini’s operatic romp.

Le Comte Ory opens next week!

Award-winning UNLV Opera presents Rossini’s 'Le Comte Ory' March 8-9 This UNLV Opera production of Le Comte Ory is a collaboration with the UNLV Department of Theatre/Nevada Conservatory Theatre.

Danielle Noletto and Ana Rangel Ortiz alternate as the peasant girl Alice in Le Comte Ory. Get your tickets for next week's performances: https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

Opening night is two weeks away! Get you tickets for Rossini's Le Comte Ory: https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

Yile Huang and Valeria Ore play the part of Ragonde, lady in waiting to the Countess, in Le Comte Ory. https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

Chase Orlando Gutierrez portrays the Count's tutor in Le Comte Ory, playing March 8-9 https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

Dongmin Byeon and Aaron Oberlander play the Count's sidekick Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

One month until opening night!🤩

Ana Elisa Portes and Courtney Schwalbe sing the role of Isolier, page to the Count in Rossini's Le Comte Ory. https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

XInyu Pan-Herrington and Alonna Younger-Naughton play the Countess Adèle in Le Comte Ory March 8-9
https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

Collin Salmon and Christian Shelton star as the Count in Rossini's Le Comte Ory, playing March 8-9 in the Judy Bayley Theatre. https://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-opera-theater-le-comte-ory-0

Some images from our fall opera scenes program Fight or Flight. (📸: Brynn Limbengco)

Congratulations to the singing actors of UNLV Opera on their 2nd place finish in the graduate division of the National Opera Association's Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition. Go Rebels!