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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis company history timeline

1976

The first season opened on May 22, 1976.

Ron Raines, Peter Strummer, Sheri Greenawald, and Vinson Cole in Don Pasquale, OTSL's very first production (1976). Photo © Bill Smith

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis was founded in the spring of 1976 by a small group of opera lovers determined to bring festival-quality opera to the St Louis area.

1983

In 1983, Opera Theatre became the first American company ever to be invited to perform at the Edinburgh Festival.

1989

When soprano Paula Ingram and baritone Ron Peo sang for Soldan High School students in 1989, Opera Theatre of St Louis was younger than some of the kids.

1999

Baritone Robert Orth told the St Louis Post-Dispatch in 1999 that when he first sang Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette in English, “the audience loved it.

2022

Weekly ticket lotteries begin May 16, 2022

Photography by Kevin A. Roberts A conversation with 2022 Missouri Teacher of the Year James Young A musical theatre instructor at Johnson-Wabash 6th Grade Center in Ferguson, Young will represent Missouri in the National Teacher of the Year Program.

Photography by Alise O’BrienSee the winning projects of Design STL’s 2022 Architect & Designer Awards

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