In addition to the other performing groups available on campus, each year DHO invites these undergraduates to audition for the cast or orchestra of our February production of a full length opera. In selecting the pieces for our productions, the Senior Staff and Board of Operators make special efforts to pick an opera calling for a wide array of voice ranges and levels of training . Our goal is to make opera accessible to everyone interested in participating. And we want to introduce opera to our audiences as something undergraduates can tackle , not a lofty art form restricted to the highly trained performer and enjoyed only by a highly trained audience. We perform in Dunster House and previous productions have typically played to sold out audiences.
Membership is non-exclusive and signing up is easy.
As of September 2000, there were over 350 undergraduate society members, in addition to the 100 some members who worked on last year's production.