Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts

All you gotta do is sing! Inspired and inspiring a cappellamusic about rehousing a robin,and the wings of a dove;blackening clouds, and the northern lights;childhood memories, the highway of regret,and…

Brennen Guillory and Megan Belov will be performing songs and arias of Puccini, Mahler, Wagner, Rogers & Hammerstein, and more. Belov and Guillory will delight and move you! Join us for this fundraiser in anticipation of the Cascadia Chamber Opera Festival 2025 (August 13, 15, 17, 22, and 24.) $20 for adults$5 for 13 to…

Nemorino, a not-so-clever guy, has fallen for Adina, a guesthouse owner. He desires her attention but doesn’t feel worthy. Fortunately, he meets Dr. Dulcamara (most certainly a quack) who sells him a “magic elixir” that can make his dreams come true.

Nemorino, a not-so-clever guy, has fallen for Adina, a guesthouse owner. He desires her attention but doesn’t feel worthy. Fortunately, he meets Dr. Dulcamara (most certainly a quack) who sells him a “magic elixir” that can make his dreams come true.

Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel’s dwb (driving while black) tackles what it means to be a parent of a black child who starts driving. In its swift 45 minutes, the listener spends 16 years with a black mother, feeling her growing fear as her black son moves towards adulthood in America.

Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel’s dwb (driving while black) tackles what it means to be a parent of a black child who starts driving. In its swift 45 minutes, the listener spends 16 years with a black mother, feeling her growing fear as her black son moves towards adulthood in America.

A double-bill featuring Ashley Hastings' When Dragons Come to Play and Sarah Cohen directing the Grimm Tales' Little Red Riding Hood

A double-bill featuring Ashley Hastings' When Dragons Come to Play and Sarah Cohen directing the Grimm Tales' Little Red Riding Hood

Oregon's own internationally acclaimed, award-winning pianist Andrei Andreev will be performing his favorite pieces from the classical piano repertoire. This event is a fundraiser supporting the Cascadia Chamber Opera's Festival 2024, which will be held in August.   To learn more about Andrei Andreev, visit his website: Andrei Andreev Homepage   Andrei Andreev performing Frederic…

Don Giovanni is truly the stuff of opera: love, lust, murder! This fully staged performance, entirely in English and in the intimate setting of the Larsen Center, gives the audience a unique opportunity to experience the story of Mozart and Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni, a comic reimagining of the famous libertine, Don Juan. The superb…

Don Giovanni is truly the stuff of opera: love, lust, murder! This fully staged performance, entirely in English and in the intimate setting of the Larsen Center, gives the audience a unique opportunity to experience the story of Mozart and Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni, a comic reimagining of the famous libertine, Don Juan. The superb…

Composer and Librettist: Ashley Hastings Free Men, a one-act chamber opera, takes place in the American South, shortly after the Civil War, in the early days of Reconstruction. Tom and Joe are gay and they quickly bond. This is their story. In one act, The Dream asks “What happens when an author’s main character shows…