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QO opens tonight!
It’s been an amazing week of rehearsals and these singers are 🔥 . Tickets still available! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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QO 2025 has officially started! Yesterday was an amazing first day: intros, room agreements, scene sing-throughs, and even a staging of a certain famous “wedding” in a dress shop. These singers are so prepared and seeing Melory Mirashrafi work with them is inspiring! Today is an Intimacy and Consent Workshop, and then some serious musical work.

Having this safe, q***r space to share ourselves and work on our art is a luxury these days and we are living for it!

Shows are Saturday and Sunday with tickets still available.

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AUDITIONS! QO will be holding auditions for the 2025 workshop on June 10th and 11th. Interested PSU students (and recent alums) can sign up on the 3rd floor opera board. Details are posted there. 😁

After a year's hiatus, QO's one-week workshop and performances will be back! Going back to our roots, we are limiting involvement to PSU students only, but community is welcome to join us for two amazing concerts on September 6 and 7, 2025. More news to come! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

To our friends and supporters, QO will be taking a hiatus during the summer of 2024. With an upcoming change in my PSU responsibilities, it would not be possible to produce QO at the same time. After a year of settling into my new position, the plan is to be back in 2025 with a summer workshop. While our online presence may be quiet for a bit, please know that QO will return, as q***r as ever. Sincerely, Chuck 🏳️‍🌈

For those unable to attend tomorrow's recital with Katherine Goforth and March Steiger, you can find the livestream at the link below! If you are in town and available at 7:30, please join us for music by Liszt, Wagner, and Robert Schumann. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

An Evening of Song Join tenor Katherine Goforth and pianist Chuck Dillard in an evening of art songs and arias. Goforth is the recipient of the inaugural True Voice Award, crea...

Join Katherine Goforth and Chuck Dillard, with special guest March Steiger, as they present an evening of iconic art song featuring works by Liszt, Wagner, and Robert Schumann's Frauenliebe und leben.

This concert is FREE and open to the public and serves as a fundraising event for Q***r Opera's future productions. More details in the comments!

We had the great pleasure of catching Renegade Opera's preview of Adam's Run last night!

It's a comedic contemporary opera on climate collapse (socio-political + ecological) by Ruby Fulton () + . The perfect blend of classical and rock & roll, this work features many Q***r Opera veterans, music direction by Danielle Jagelski, and stage direction by Melory Mirashrafi. Performances are followed by a composer/librettist talkback (9/7), live karaoke (9/8), and original new music by the cast (9/9, 9/10). Location: . Visit for more info.

2023: Adam's Run — Renegade Opera Adam’s Run is a comedic contemporary opera on climate collapse (socio-political and ecological) by composer Ruby Fulton and librettist Baynard Woods. Set in a near-future America, TV personalities Julie Shore (the Existentialist Weather Woman) and Reverend Billy Noble (the Environmentalist Evangel...

The production team is ready for dress rehearsal!! (Left to right) Chuck Dillard, artistic director - Celine Clark, production assistant - Rebecca Herman, stage director - Ronnie Rantis, lighting designer

This weekend!! Nine singers have been rehearsing all week to bring you a truly unique art song experience. Tickets are still available at the link below! 😃

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