Performance majors also perform principal roles in fully staged productions of operas and musicals. All roles in Stetson musicals and operas are sung by Stetson voice majors. Stetson has collaborated with Orlando Opera during productions, including the Fall 2002 production of "La Clemenza di Tito" with all roles sung (and double cast) by Stetson voice majors. Stetson also maintains a close association with Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, with Stetson students involved in productions during the summer session

Recent Stetson productions have included Mozart's "Magic Flute" (Spring 2008), Copland's "Tender Land" and Puccini's "La Boheme" (Fall 2007), Rossini's "L'Italiana" (Spring 2007), Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor" (Spring 2006), and Mozart's "Don Giovanni" (piano only, Fall 2006). Other performances have included Jason Robert Brown's "Songs for a New World" (Fall 2005), Bernstein’s "Trouble in Tahiti" and Giannini’s "Hansel and Gretel" (Fall 2004), Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Trial by Jury" and Purcell’s "Dido and Aeneas"(Spring 2004), Puccini’s "La Rondine" (Fall 2003), Sondheim’s "Sweeney Todd" (Spring 2003), Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" and Britten's "Curlew River" (Spring 2002), Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito"(Fall 2002) and Sondheim's "Into the Woods" (2001).

Faculty
Faculty members are all performing artists with expertise in the field of vocal performance, and are active in opera, oratorio and recitals. They include:

Jane Christeson, mezzo soprano
Andrew Larson, tenor
Lloyd Linney,soprano
Craig Maddox,baritone
Stephen Ng, tenor
Russell Franks,bass/baritone
Carole Clifford, soprano


Special Features

Donovan Singletary, a bass-baritone who graduated from Stetson in December 2006, won the New York City Metropolitan Opera's National Council Grand Finals in New York in March 2006. Stetson student Tai Oney won the Metropolitan Opera Council District Competition in 2007.

Stetson`s Hollis Voice Laboratory and portable satellite labs are available to help students develop their professional singing voice through visual as well as aural aids.

Course Information
Performance majors participate in weekly private lessons, studio performance classes, and student recitals. Check this link for more details on Course Requirements.

Career Opportunities
Stetson graduates are well prepared for entrance into the graduate voice programs at the best schools of music and conservatories in the country. They have also received training in conducting and pedagogy, to help them prepare for private voice teaching and jobs in church music. Some of Stetson's most advanced students are prepared to go directly into the musical theatre and opera performing world.

Graduates perform with the Orlando Opera, San Francisco Opera, St. Louis Opera, Central City Opera, Utah Symphony Opera, Tanglewood Festival, Des Moines Opera, Boston Symphony, and Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach.

Alumni Highlights
Jamie Gagliano, '03, Baltimore Lyric Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera

Sara Downs, ’03, Knoxville Opera

Yvonne Strumecki, ’02, Sarasota Opera

Glorivy Arroyo, ’00, Opera Boston, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Daniel Cilli,, '00, Utah Opera, Houston Opera Studio

Katherine Rohrer,'98, San Francisco Opera, St. Louis Opera, Central City Opera, Opera Colorado, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony

Brace Negron, ’98, Title Role in The Pied Piper of Hamelin World Premier Recording, Opera North Young Artist Program, Utah Opera

Lori Ann Fuller, '96, Chicago Lyric Opera

Stacey Wheeler, ’96, Sarasota Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera Chorus

Bobb Robinson, ’96, Washington National Cathedral (Soloist/Section Leader)

Michael Shawn Lewis, '93, Phantom of the Opera, Hamburg, Germany; Broadway leads

Steve Lucas, ’93, Phantom of the Opera, Hamburg, Germany, Broadway Leads

Maria Zouves, '87, San Francisco Opera, St. Louis Opera, Central City Opera