Five of our alumni are in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra alone, and IU alums serve as concertmasters in Cleveland, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Montreal, and Louisville. Countless others become music educators, teaching the next generation of music students. The Indiana University Opera Theater was begun in 1948 and has developed into the foremost opera training program in the United States today. It boasts the longest performance season of any opera company in the Western Hemisphere, exceeding even that of the Metropolitan Opera. Performances during a given season attract nearly 30,000.
People travel from all over Indiana, the Midwest and the country to attend our performances.
Indiana University-Bloomington 2. University of Cincinnati 4. The youngest department in IU's venerable School of Music, the ballet program has come into its own and stands poised for national and international acclaim. Nurturing the talent that will one day grace the stages of the finest dance companies, applicants come from around the globe to audition for the few slots open annually. Thanks to the cooperation of the School's ballet program, beautiful choreography is built into many Opera Theater productions.