Great Lakes Operetta

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Current Season

Announcing our 2025-2026 season, including our first full-length operetta!

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Past Season

A look back on our 2024-2025 inaugural season events!

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About GLO

Meet the GLO team and learn about our mission.

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Support GLO

Arts organizations need your support more than ever!

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Work with GLO

Love operetta? There are opportunities on stage and off!

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About Operetta

Learn about operetta and its impact on musical theater.

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The Great Lakes Operetta mission is three-fold:​

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Perform

To stage high-quality operetta and light opera productions that entertain, inspire, and engage the community.

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Revive

To preserve, revive, adapt, and reimagine traditional works of the genre for contemporary relevance.

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Educate

To educate the public about and foster appreciation for the genre.

Watch GLO's TYA version of the Victor Herbert rarity, Prince Ananias

Thanks to a generous donor, Great Lakes Operetta was able to professionally record its 2025 production of the never-before-recorded operetta rarity, Prince Ananias (1894), Victor Herbert’s first full-length work for the stage. This historic production was specially adapted by the Great Lakes Operetta team to introduce young children and families to the joys of operetta. Thank you to our wonderful donor for making this recording possible, and thank you to Peckham Media Productions for the videography! 

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Photos from Prince Ananias production