About the Program

UNT Vocal Studies

With acclaimed faculty and accomplished students, the UNT Division of Vocal Studies is a thriving educational setting. Opportunities to perform include opera, concert, and recital, both on campus and across the dynamic Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Current faculty includes nine voice studio teachers, three collaborative piano faculty who specialize in vocal coaching, three opera faculty, seven graduate teaching assistants and two opera graduate assistants. Over 85 students are pursing Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance. To discover more, please visit the UNT Vocal Studies page. 

Recent productions include:

2025-2026: Aleko, Gianni Schicchi, Alcina, That Hellbound Train (world premiere)

2024: Cosi fan tutte, Die Fledermaus, Proving Up

2023: Cendrillon, La rondine, Hänsel und Gretel 

2022: The Rape of Lucretia, Carmen, L'Elisir d'amore

2021: The Bartered Bride, Later the Same Evening, Orfeo ed Euridice

2020: Lucia di Lammermoor, Regina

2019: Le testament de la tante Caroline, Gianni Schicchi; "IF I Loved you..." A New Rodgers and Hammerstein Revue, Don Giovanni

2018: Street Scene, Faust, Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen

2017: Dialogues des Carmélites, A Little Night Music, Die Zauberflöte

2016: The Mother of Us All, L’incoronazione di Poppea  

2015: Don Giovanni, Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Special Projects

Typically, we offer one to two additional productions each year, often concert operas featuring smaller orchestral forces, or interdepartmental collaborations. Examples of recent special projects include:

Concert operas:  Bizet's Carmen (2020 - canceled due to COVID), Mozart's Così fan tutte (2019), The Complete Works of Tom Cipullo (2018), Verdi's La Traviata (2017), Puccini's Madama Butterfly (2017) 
Baroque operas: Handel's Alcina (2018), new edition premiere of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (2016), Cavalli’s L’Egisto (2007), and Rousseau's Le Devin du Village (2013) in conjunction with UNT’s award-winning early music program
Chamber operas, using reduced or chamber orchestration: productions of Gounod's Faust (2018); Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges (2002); Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (2003); Britten’s Albert Herring (2005); Verdi’s La traviata (Concert for Hope—2009)
Workshop productions, using piano accompaniment: Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (2002 and 2005); and Puccini’s Suor Angelica (2008)
Musicals, in collaboration with the UNT Department of Dance and Theatre: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (2002) and Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (2004)
The world premiere of Hans Schaeuble’s Dorian Gray (2004) in collaboration with the department of Theory, History and Ethnomusicology in the College of Music