Opera Las Vegas

Opera Las Vegas (OLV) is an opera company serving the Las Vegas Valley. [1] Opera Las Vegas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with a volunteer board of directors from the fields of law, accounting, planning and marketing as well as the musical and theatrical arts.[2]

Opera Las Vegas
Also known asOLV
GenresOpera
Years activeSince 1999
Websiteoperalasvegas.com
MembersPresident
Paxton Fleming
General Director
James Sohre
Secretary
Sheronda McKee-Dollar

Opera Las Vegas was established in 1999 by tenor Mark Thomsen, Dr. Paul Kreider of the UNLV music faculty, and Gloria Marinacci Allen, an acclaimed soprano opera singer. They were enthusiastically joined by other like-minded individuals who wanted to bring quality opera theatre to Southern Nevada. The company began producing major opera performances in 2005 with a well-received Carmen.

Opera Las Vegas provides training to Las Vegas singers by giving them the opportunity to perform roles in fully produced operas. The Opera Las Vegas Youth Chorus was established in 2017 and is hosted by the Thurman White Academy. In the fall of 2021, OLV formed collaborative relationships with the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Las Vegas Master Singers.

In 2020 and 2021, the company received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts to support an ongoing Living Composers and Librettists Initiative, which provides second or subsequent (and often, West Coast Premieres) of worthy new works, in order to help establish them in the operatic canon.

Opera Las Vegas is Nevada’s professional company member in Opera America, the National Opera Center.

Productions

OLV History of Performances

1999-2000: Erie Mills in Recital; Opera Gala Collaboration with UNLV School of Fine Arts

2000-2001: The Marriage of Figaro Collaboration with UNLV School of Fine Arts; Divas, Diamonds and Don Juan; The Tenors Three; Babar’s Little Red Riding Hood

2001-2002: Opera Goes Prime Time; Sapphire Soiree; Shining Brow (Concert) Collaboration with UNLV School of Fine Arts; Street of Dreams Soiree

2002-2003: The Three Baritones; Holiday Happiness with The Tenors Three; Chic and Panache; Divas, Diamonds and Denim; Faure Requiem; Jeanette and Nelson Soiree

2003-2004: Master Class starring Gloria Marinacci Allen; Night with the Sopranos Soiree; A Holiday Fantasy; Tenors Three; Citizen of Note Luncheon Honoring Lt. Governor;

Martinis and Music; Divas and Diamonds; Babar’s Little Red Riding Hood

2004-2005: Bahama Breeze Soiree; Great Love Duets and Arias Concert; Evening in Siena Soiree; Cavalleria Rusticana

2005-2006: Carmen; Diamonds in the Sky in the Garden of Eden Soiree; Nuts and Bolts/A Night to Remember; Irish Afternoon Tea; Opera in Paris, Rome and Salzburg

2006-2007: One International Tenor with John Smitherman; La boheme; Marni Nixon Tribute, Liberace Museum; Melodies in May Soiree; Stars Shining on Stars Concert

2007-2008: Pagliacci; Winter White Soiree; Leprechaun Luncheon; Rossini Stabat Mater Concert

2008-2009: Puccini Festival Concert

2009-2010: Opera and Marble; Go West: The Face on the Barroom Floor, and Oedipus Tex; Leprechaun Luncheon; L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love)

2010-2011: Around the World in 80 Minutes; Watch Out or the Opera Will Get You!  (Schools Tour)

2011-2012: Tosca; Around the World in Eighty Minutes (Family Educational Performance)

2012-2013: Setting the Stage Soiree; Don Giovanni

2013-2014: Spring into Style Fashion; Divas in Diamonds After Dark with Denyce Graves; Raise the Roof with Julia Migenes; Dueling Pianos; The Barber of Seville

2014-2015 : Madama Butterfly; Holiday on Broadway; A Passion for Puccini at the Smith Center; Music and the (Liberace) Mansion; Dueling Pianos

2015-2016: Carmen; Viva, Verdi! at the Smith Center; Opera Meets Oktoberfest; Holiday on Broadway; That’s Amore; Carmen Schools Tour

2016-2017: Rigoletto; Our Three Tenors; Holiday on Broadway; Stars of David; Dueling Pianos; John Davies’ Pinocchio Library Tour; Rigoletto Schools Tour

2017-2018: La Cenerentola; Noye’s Fludde; Bravo, Bernstein!; Latin Fiesta; Beer and Baritones; Cinderella’s Diamond Ball; Opera Legends in Black;

Who’s Afraid of Opera? Schools Tour; John Davies’ The Three Little Pigs Libraries Tour

2018-2019: L’elisir d’amore; Hansel and Gretel; Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek’s 27 (West Coast Premiere); Latin Fiesta at the Smith Center; Opera Legends in Black;

Love Potion No. 9 Gala; Who’s Afraid of Opera? Schools Tour; John Davies’ Jack and the Beanstalk Libraries Tour

2019-2020: The Magic Flute;* Hansel and Gretel; Angela Meade in Recital;* Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg (West Coast Premiere);* Sasha Matson’s Cooperstown – A Jazz

Opera in 9 Innings (W. Coast Premiere); One Amazing Evening! Twentieth Anniversary Concert at the Smith Center; Opera Uncorked; Opera Legends in Black;

Magical Night of Delights Gala; Who’s Afraid of Opera Schools Tour;* John Davies’ The Bremen Town Musicians Libraries Tour *

* Canceled owing to the COVID Pandemic

2020-2021: Cecilia Violetta Lopez and Nathan Salazar, Virtual Recital; Opera Legends in Black, Virtual Tribute Concert; Opera Oasis, Virtual Short Pairings of famous

selections; Brian James Myer and Michael Sherman, Virtual Recital; Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s The Ghosts of Gatsby Professional Company Premiere

(Postponed); Donizetti’s Don Pasquale; Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg (West Coast Premiere)

2021-2022: Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s The Ghosts of Gatsby Professional Company Premiere; Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek’s The House Without a Christmas

Tree, West Coast Premiere; Holiday on Broadway; D.J. Sparr, Mark Campbell, and Davis Miller’s Approaching Ali, West Coast Premiere (postponed); Opera

Legends in Black; Double Bill: Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and the West Coast Premiere of Michael Torke and A.R. Gurney’s Strawberry Fields; Who’s

Afraid of Opera?; John Davies’ The Bremen Town Musicians; Puccini’s Tosca

Presidents
  • 2003 – 2004: John Krieger[3]
  • 2005 – 2006: Joyce La Grange[4]
  • 2008 – 2009: James Frank[5]
  • 2010 – 2012: Caroline Orzes[6]
  • 2013 – 2014: Stephen Silberkraus[7]
  • 2015: John Krieger[8]
  • 2016 – 2017: Dana Barooshian[9]
  • 2017 – 2019: Stephanie Buntin
  • 2019 - Present: Paxton Fleming

References
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  4. "Opera Las Vegas finds a home at Las Vegas Art Museum". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
  5. "OLV Presents". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
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