Upcoming Events

2025 Season
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February - Winter Cabaret
June - Love Italian Style
July - Summer Concert Series 

​Recent Events

July 10 - 31, 2024: GWO's Summer Concert Series
June 6-9, 2024 - A Little Night Music at Calliope Productions, Boylston - read the REVIEW
February 10, 2024 - Winter Cabaret featuring Music of the 70's
July 12 - August 2, 2023: GWO's Summer Concert Series

June 8-11, 2023 - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder at Calliope Productions, Boylston

March 18, 2023 - 20th Anniversary Alumni Concert​ at the JMAC BrickBox Theatre, Worcester, MA

February 4, 2023: Winter Cabaret Fundraiser - Broadway Upside Down!

2022 Summer Concert Series​ ​(July, August 2022) sponsored by the West Boylston Cultural Council and the Mass State Cultural Council

Puccini Double-Bill : Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica​

Puccini Double Bill - Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica was performed at Calliope Productions in Boylston, MA in June of 2022, with Gianni Schicchi also performed in August at the Briarwood Community.  Winner of the EMACT  2022 Consultant's Choice "The Show Must Go On" award.  Emily Baker (Suor Angelica) also nominated for Best Actress in a Musical.  This program was supported in part by grants from the Bolton, Boylston and Lancaster Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.  See our program here.

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (May 2021) Filmed live onstage. Special congratulations to our EMACT Consultant's Choice Award winners Taylor Lawton (Excellence in Musical Theater Performance) and Charles Crane (Excellence in Sound Engineering.)  
Read our 4/25/2021 article by Richard Duckett in the Telegram and Gazette: online link here.  Pdf here.
Review by METRMag here
Review by Tony's Corner here
​A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was presented through special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI). Streaming is presented through special arrangement with MTI.  All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.  Mtishows.com.  All covid protocols were followed during this production and filming.

See one of our "pandemic projects" - featuring Todd Yard & Elaine Crane

 Concerts, programs and other ongoing events

The ABC's of Opera
This multi-media introduction to opera includes an engaging talk about the nuts and bolts of this beautiful art form, and live examples.  Perfect for a library series or community center, our artists and lecturer unpack the mysteries and highlight the joys of opera in an informative and fun presentation!
Concerts
GWO has a variety of travelling concerts to fit every need and budget.  Our professional artists can create concerts specific to your needs, or you can book one of our current selections:

Italian Concert - regional songs, art songs and arias from Italy, featuring voice and mandolin
Broadway Concert - a wide array of songs from the Great White Way
Great American Songbook Concert - featuring standards made popular by Sinatra, Fitzgerald and more
Opera Concert - arias and ensembles to delight, move and entertain
Bernstein on Broadway - a narrated concert of some of this treasured composer's works
For more information about concerts, please fill out the form below, or email [email protected]

Touring Opera for Students

Diamonds and Toads

Greater Worcester Opera created an original production for elementary age students.  Diamonds and Toads is based on the French fairy tale by Perrault and tells the tale of two sisters, and how by way of a Fairy they learn the value of kind speech, and empathy.  This tale has a valuable lesson, and is also an excellent introduction to the music of Mozart, with storybook sets and costumes.  The production gave its first performance on January 30, 2009.

The Pirates of Penzance

Opera for the Young's school-friendly version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance was performed by four professional singers, an accompanist, and students prepared by their music educators!  Our professional singers lead the students through a fun-filled performance of this classic opera.

Produced in collaboration with the New England Gilbert & Sullivan Association (NEGASS), this production was available exclusively through Young Audiences of Massachusetts.  

Hansel and Gretel
This kid-sized version (a GWO original) of the classic employed all the famous tunes and tale, along with colorful costumes and beautiful sets.  This production also featured students (prepared in advance by the music teacher or specialist) who performed right alongside our professional cast of singers. This beautiful production got students excited about opera by using one of their favorite stories, set to Humperdinck's exceptional music.