Prospective Students

The Lyric Opera Theater program in the Herberger College of the Arts at Arizona State University is professional training that prepares you for a career as either a performer or music director/conductor in Broadway musicals or opera.

With its faculty and staff of eleven, LOT maintains a high standard of excellence in all aspects of music theater production.  Each year, we produce four fully staged and costumed main-stage productions with orchestra, typically two musicals and two operas. 

Would you like to direct, choreograph or create costumes for a show?  We also sponsor student workshop productions. For these as a student, you do it all – cast the show, direct it, arrange for costumes, sets, lighting and act in it.  Recent student productions have included March of the Falsettos, Assassins, and Poulenc’s opera La Voix Humaine. 

LOT productions range from standard repertory such as Oklahoma! and The Magic Flute, to productions of brand new works by current composers (The Scarecrow, Joseph Turrin’s 2006 opera). Operas are usually performed in the original language.