Welcome to the CU Boulder New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Founded in 2010 by Leigh Holman, director of the Eklund Opera Program, CU NOW is the first ...

It’s that time of year again—CU Boulder’s New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) has taken over the College of Music, and the world of opera will never be the same. Every summer, CU NOW hosts an extended ...

A scene from CU Boulder's production of "Pirates of Penzance" which opens Friday at Macky Auditorium. Paul Eklund (left), CU Boulder opera director Leigh Holman, dean of the CU Boulder College of ...

This weekend, patrons of CU Opera will have the opportunity to experience two-thirds of Giacomo Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” three one-act operas intended to be performed together, on the Macky Auditorium ...

Contemporary American opera has made such great artistic strides in the past 15 to 20 years that many call our present time the Golden Age of American Opera. For instance, one of the leading opera ...

In Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera, “Hansel and Gretel,” a fence of traditional gingerbread-cookie-shaped panels surrounds the witch’s gingerbread house. When Hansel and Gretel defeat the witch, ...

The University of Colorado’s Eklund Opera Theater Singers will give complimentary performances in Aspen next week on Thursday and Friday. This third annual visit from the troupe, presented by Aspen ...

It’s obviously “Cinderella,” but generations accustomed to the Disney movie; Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning take, “Into the Woods,” or even the versions by Charles Perrault and the Brothers ...

DENVER—They’re the same drill really, football and opera. You make the team, put in the practice, and when the whistle blows you perform like your life depended on it. Still, they don’t overlap much ...