UO Opera Theater Brings Broadway Pizazz

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Byline: Marilyn Farwell For The Register-Guard

This year, before giving its annual opera performance in Eugene, the University of Oregon Opera Theater took its show on the road, first to Lakeview and then to that ultimate preview venue, New York City.

Having just returned from what, by all reports, was an exhilarating time in the Big Apple, the students put on a confident and impressive production called "Faces of Love: Contemporary American Opera and Song."

Interspersed with some rabble-rousing songs from two fine university a cappella groups, Divisi and On the Rocks, and from individual vocalists who must have caught Broadway fever while in New York, …