Comic Opera Guild

Line of Work:

Opera and Operetta Producer

First Year of Operation: 1973

Address:

3211 Packard St Ann Arbor MI, 48108

Additional Information:

The Comic Opera Guild was founded to promote interest in the operatic art form through the performance of comic operas and classic musicals. The Guild's repertoire includes that which is both challenging and appropriate for its combination of professional singers, music students from the surrounding universities and talented amateurs from the Ann Arbor and Southeastern Michigan area.

The Guild is unique in that it has toured to over 30 communities in Michigan and Ohio with entire productions, not simply soloists. Since its inception, it has created more than 60 productions of operas and operettas, many of which are not otherwise produced.

In addition to creating original English performing versions of European operas and operettas, the Guild has revived more than 50 early Broadway musicals and operettas. All its shows have been professionally recorded, and are available to the general public.

Since 2000, the Guild has sponsored the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition, which awards prizes to promising singers who best show that they can act as well as sing.

Founder Information

First Name	Last Name	Duties/Information	Year of Birth	Image
bbbTThomas	Petiet	Managing Director	1943

Ownership Information:

Non profit corporation

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Additional Miscellaneous Images

Showboat, Jerome Kern	Merry Widow, Franz Lehar	Orange Blossoms, Victor Herbert	Naughty Marietta, Victor Herbert
Kismet, Forrest and Wright	La Belle Helene, Jacques Offenbach	Gypsy Baron, Johann Strauss	Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss
Elixir of Love, Donizetti	El Capitan, J. P. Sousa	Carmen, Georges Bizet	The Brigands, Jacques Offenbach
Beggar's Opera, Pepusch anfd Gay	Grand Duchess, Jacques Offenbach