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![Emily Richter '20](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-03/richter%20Emily%20new.jpg?h=1ac39924&itok=CYGcr_lK)
Lawrence University alumna Emily Richter ’20 is one of five winners of a prestigious 2024 Metropolitan Opera competition. The honor follows her March 17 performance in the Met's Eric and Dominique Laffont Grand Finals Concert.
![Sam Dill, Henry Roach, Emily Hamm, and Mariah Schaumberg are seen during opera rehearsal for Alice Tierney.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-02/AliceTierney1.jpg?h=07cd27ab&itok=vbXGFk_G)
Two one-act operas will be presented by Lawrence University’s Opera Theatre program. Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon and Melissa Dunphy's Alice Tierney will be featured in Stansbury Theater Feb. 29-March 3.
![Lawrence students perform in the opera, "Suor Angelica," in 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-09/SuorAngelica2022.jpg?h=262793ad&itok=Zs0TBne2)
Kristin Roach, assistant professor of opera, has won The American Prize in Conducting in the Opera and Music Theater Division. It comes for her work conducting four 2022 performances of Suor Angelica.
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Copeland Woodruff, director of opera studies at Lawrence University, has received a prestigious honor from The American Prize, a celebration of his “sustained excellence” in opera theater.
![Students perform in an opera scene at Lawrence.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-04/Opera1.jpg?h=3534c7a5&itok=92wFrVQa)
Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music has been named a national semifinalist in multiple categories for the 2023 The American Prize. Two Opera Theatre productions received nods, as did Copeland Woodruff and Kristin Roach.
![Students on the technical crew work on scaffolding as they prepare the stage of Stansbury Theatre for "Alcina."](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-02/OperaBTS_4.jpg?h=e59357bb&itok=1keXVKjr)
Handel’s Alcina, an 18th-century baroque opera, will be set in a traveling carnival when it is presented March 2-5 by Lawrence University’s award-winning Opera Theatre program.
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The Central Park Five, an opera that featured Derrell Acon ’10 in a leading role when it debuted last summer in southern California, has won a Pulitzer Prize for music.
![Count Almaviva during a dress rehearsal for The Marriage of Figaro](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-10/figaro.jpg?h=4bf90136&itok=iEiiVzn-)
Opera Theatre students prepare to open the production of The Marriage of Figaro, the classic opera from the superstar duo of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte.
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Derrell Acon '10 stars in The Central Park Five, an operatic retelling of an emotionally charged criminal case that's set to open in an opera house in southern California.
![Dress rehearsal for "Mass."](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-09/opera2%20%281%29.jpg?h=3e16b80a&itok=Q27twNYP)
The much-anticipated production by Lawrence’s Opera Theatre Ensemble, led by Copeland Woodruff, the award-winning Director of Opera Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Lawrence, will incorporate a Deaf character played by professional Deaf actor Robert Schleifer.
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Lawrence University Opera Theatre is presenting a much-anticipated retelling of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, featuring a Deaf character and the use of sign language. It incorporates public discussions of faith and communication.