Opera Company of Middlebury

10/25/2025

We've been creating magic on stage for 23 seasons. In celebration of World Opera Day, check out some special moments from OCM productions through the years!

Carmen - 2004
The Barber of Seville - 2009
Eugene Onegin - 2013
Dido & Aeneas - 2015
A Streetcar Named Desire - 2018
Maid of Orleans - 2021
Fidelio - 2023
La Fille du Régiment - 2024
La Bohème - 2025
Bernstein Festival - 2025

10/25/2025

It's World Opera Day! After 23 seasons, we're thinking about all the people who have graced our stage as cast, orchestra, staff, and crew members, and everyone who has been touched by the beauty of opera through our OCM community. Thank you for being part of this journey.

✨ Take a look at some of our cast photos through the years! From Carmen in 2004 to this fall's Bernstein Festival, we're so lucky to have this community! ✨

Bernstein Festival - 2025
La Fille du Régiment - 2024
Fidelio - 2023
Maid of Orleans - 2021
A Streetcar Named Desire - 2018
Dido & Aeneas - 2015
Eugene Onegin - 2013
The Barber of Seville - 2009
Carmen - 2004

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10/24/2025

Join OCM Artistic Director Doug Anderson for his 4-week Hollywood Musicals class! Starting Oct 27 at Town Hall Theater, Doug explores the magic behind classic film musicals.

The Hollywood Musical 🎥🎞️🎬

Mondays October 27th - November 24th
7pm
Town Hall Theater’s Rothrock Historic Stage

Join Director in Residence Douglas Anderson as he takes you through the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Part class and part film festival, each session will begin with a lecture about the studios, directors, and stars who defined each era.

A screening of a key film will follow, shown as it was meant to be seen - on the big screen in THT’s historic Rothrock Mainstage!

October 27th - The Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

November 3rd - Top Hat (1935)

November 17th - Showboat (1936)

November 24th Singin In The Rain (1952)

Register at the link in our bio!

10/24/2025

Calling all Young Artists! ⏰ The deadline for applications to Opera Company of Middlebury's 2026 Young Artist Program is midnight TONIGHT!

Gain invaluable experience through individualized coaching, master classes, and performances in the ensemble of our mainstage production of La Traviata, plus your own fully staged production!

Program dates: May 18 – June 14, 2026 in Middlebury, VT

Check out our website for more information: https://www.ocmvermont.org/yap

10/23/2025

After stage managing and producing over 30 OCM productions, Executive Producer Mary Longey knows a thing or two about opera. Her favorite? OCM's production of Eugene Onegin in 2013. Check out this video from our production!

"After spending over 20 years stage managing and producing over 30 productions for OCM, my favorite opera experience has got to be Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN in 2013, because it was in Russian, starred my favorite OCM soprano Suzanne Kantorski, and (besides being simply one of the most beautiful opera scores), I loved the look of our production - the costumes, the set, all of the details of props and furniture and dancing that made it incredible to watch every night. Tatiana's letter aria is one of the longest in opera, but I still love listening to it over and over! I saw the Bolshoi production of the opera at the Metropolitan Opera when I was studying Russian in College, and I never forgot it. So I was very happy when Doug Anderson decided that OCM could produce it in 2012." - Mary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=s7kcfENLF_di8VI4&v=B_Kv-4tTods&feature=youtu.be

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Emmanuel Plasson: ConductorDirector: Douglas AndersonThe Opera Company of Middlebury (2013)

10/23/2025

Met in HD starts this weekend! Get your tickets now!
And don't miss the pre-show talk given by OCM Board Member Dr. Danielle Simon at 12:15pm.

Town Hall Theater Presents
The MET: Live in HD

Watch the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025/2026 season live in HD right here in Middlebury, Vermont!

Starting with Bellini’s La Sonnambula on Saturday October 25th at 1pm in the Anderson Studio. (This is an encore screening but all 7 others will be live streamed.)

Soprano Nadine Sierra plays Amina, who sleepwalks her way into the audiences hearts in a tale of love lost and found.

In his new production Rolando Villazón retains the opera original setting of the Swiss Alps, but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind.

Tickets at the link in our bio!

10/22/2025

Three days until World Opera Day! OCM Music Director Filippo Ciabatti is all about Verdi—especially Falstaff. But the moment he says you can't miss? Leontyne Price's legendary farewell performance as Aida at the Met in 1985. Watch it and understand why it's an unbelievable moment in opera history.

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Metropolitan OperaJames LevineJanuary 3, 1985

10/21/2025

Next up: OCM Chorus Master Nathaniel Lew shares his unforgettable first encounter with Britten's Peter Grimes!

"One opera that I fell in love with instantly at a young age is Britten's Peter Grimes. I knew only a few of Britten's works when, in my sophomore year of college, a roommate brought back Britten's 1958 recording of Peter Grimes and put it on our stereo. I was entranced, rendered literally immobile for the entire recording. By the end, as the chorus returned singing the music that began Act One, unmoved and unchanged by the tragedy that they have precipitated, I was crying (or almost). That chance encounter sparked a life-long passion for Britten's operas. To this day, not only Peter Grimes, but also Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Death in Venice remain some of my most cherished operatic touchstones, and my most memorable theatrical memories. Here's a clip of the terrifying mob scene. - Nat

is this Saturday! Share your favorite opera moments and tag us!

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More from Benjamin Britten's masterpiece. I love how she whips the entire borough into a frenzy.

10/20/2025

This Saturday is World Opera Day! All week, we're celebrating by sharing our staff's favorite opera moments—the experiences that made us fall in love with this art form. First up: OCM General Director Sarah Cullins takes us back to row G at the Met.

"My first live opera experience was seeing La Traviata at the Met with my grandmother when I was about 13. My great-aunt Loulu had a lifelong subscription in row G, seats 5 and 7 (carried over from the old Met), but hardly ever used them in her later years, leaving me the incredibly lucky beneficiary of those seats on many occasions. Over the years, my grandmother and I saw Aida countless times together, and I'll never forget an absolutely incredible Don Carlos that I saw with a college friend after taking the train down from Boston. The first time OCM produced La Traviata, a semi-staged version in 2014, I sang Annina, and wished every moment that my grandmother could have seen me. Now that OCM will be producing our first fully staged version in Spring 2026, the cycle comes full circle for me, now as General Director, to be responsible for bringing this incredible experience to audiences young and old. My favorite Violetta? One I never got to hear perform live, Callas." - Sarah

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Maria Callas (1923-1977)Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)La traviataE strano! E strano!...Ah, fors'è lui che l'anima...Follie! Follie!...Sempre liberaAlfredo - Fran...

10/06/2025

✨ Thank you, thank you from all of us at Opera Company of Middlebury for joining us for our Bernstein Festival! What an incredible start to our 23rd season!! ✨