Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Spring 2027
University Opera
University Opera involves preparation, rehearsal, and performance of an opera role in a University production.
offering recorded1–2 credits
Summary
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Develop skills with which to efficiently learn and rehearse operatic and musical theater material.
Synthesize singing, language, musicality, style, and acting values to effectively perform material from the operatic and musical theater repertoire.
Develop stagecraft skills in general as well as those particular to opera and musical theater.
Cultivate a sense of ensemble within both in-person and virtual performance situations.
Expand the scope of historical and cultural research involved in advanced role preparation.
Develop oral and written skills used to express dramaturgical and interpretive concepts in opera and musical theater.
Integrate other areas of music and voice study (music history, music theory, period vocal style) into stage work.
Explore the symbiotic relationship between acting and singing in operatic and musical theater performance.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
199199 letter grades
A96.5%96.5%
AB2.5%2.5%
B0.5%0.5%
BC0.5%0.5%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Prerequisites
Course mapGraduate/professional standing
- Graduate/professional standing
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Prerequisite text tree
- Graduate/professional standing
Professors
Spring 2027No course-specific feedback yet.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
DAVID RONIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
THOMAS KASDORF is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 28 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Meeting source records
Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
No workload feedback recorded.
Topics
- Opera role preparation and performance
- Relationship between acting and singing
- Ensemble work in in-person and virtual settings
Skills
- Efficiently learning and rehearsing operatic and musical theater material
- General and specific stagecraft for opera and musical theater
- Historical and cultural research for advanced role preparation
- Integrating music history, theory, and period vocal style into stage work
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A100.0%100.0%
AB0.0%0.0%
B0.0%0.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
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Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
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Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
University Opera
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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