For 76 years, Opera in the Ozarks has earned the reputation of being a prominent training program for aspiring opera singers. The program’s most outstanding feature is that every participant is afforded an opportunity to perform in fully produced operas with
a professional orchestra. Artists from all over the world come to Eureka Springs for four rehearsal weeks and four production weeks under the supervision of a professional staff. OIO alumni have appeared in all the major performing venues of the world and
many of our participants have become successful teachers, conductors, directors, producers and designers.
The company runs three mainstage productions in repertory (7-8 performances each) in our beautiful, new 300 seat theater and a smaller, traveling studio artist production for a one-month season, mid-June to mid-July. The company comprises 40 vocal artists
supported by an artistic/administrative staff of 25 and a paid orchestra of 25.
2026 productions:
- Bernstein’s Candide,
- Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro
- two one-act operasby Puccini, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
- The Studio Artist program’s production is Monkey See, Monkey Do by Robert Xavier Rodríguez.
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OIO is located five miles west of Eureka Springs on Hwy 62. One of the most picturesque scenic areas in the South-Central USA, Inspiration Point is a lookout site situated atop Rock Candy Mountain between the beautiful White River Valley and Beaver Lake.
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