Five College Opera
The Five College Opera Production of Le Nozze di Figaro took place in Bowker Auditorium on the UMass campus on February 6 and 8, 2026.
Performance of Le Nozze di Figaro at UMass Amherst, 2026, photo by Ben Barnhart
Video of February 6 Performance
Video of February 8 Performance
What is the Five College Opera?
About the Opera
The Five College Opera is a collaborative production in which faculty from across the campuses join together to plan an opera and students in music and theater from all of the campuses have the opportunity to study and perform. Students learn operatic techniques from experts and perform in a production which is open to the public.
Steering Committee
Klara Moricz
Professor of Music
kmoricz@amherst.edu
Eric Sawyer
Professor in Dramatic Arts (Music)
ewsawyer@amherst.edu
Junko Oba
Associate Professor of Music
joha@hampshire.edu
Tianhui Ng
Professor of Music
tng@mtholyoke.edu
Sherezade Panthaki
Lecturer in Music
spanthaki@mtholyoke.edu
Katherine Saik DeLugan
Senior Lecturer in Music
ksaik@smith.edu
William Hite
Professor of Music
williamhite@music.umass.edu
Jamie-Rose Guarrine
Professor of Voice
jguarrine@music.umass.edu
Past Productions
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) by Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed at UMass Amherst in 2026
The Scarlett Professor by Eric Sawyer
Performed at Smith College in 2017
Street Scene by Kurt Weill
Performed at UMass Amherst in 2014
Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
Performed at Mount Holyoke College in 2009
Figaro 2026
The Five College Opera Production of Le Nozze di Figaro
in UMass' Bowker Auditorium February 6 and 8, 2026!
Click here for more info.
2026 Five College Opera
The Marriage of Figaro
The Figaro Files
In this companion website to the production, students in Adeline Mueller’s Mount Holyoke College Fall 2025 course Music Analysis: Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro take you on a tour of the characters, costumes, historical references, and highlights of Mozart and da Ponte’s enduring opera buffa. Meet the cast and creatives, find out which Figaro character matches your personality, and hear some of Mozart’s effervescent music for the story of four pairs of lovers sorting themselves out over one “crazy day”!