Name: Opera on the James
Start: 2024-10-30T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-30T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Sydnor Performance Hall

Presented by Perry Payne Millner ‘86 and Peter Leonard
Opera on the James (OOTJ) presents a program of selections from its fall residency of Tyler Young Artists (YAPS), and a preview of its upcoming production of Puccini’s masterpiece, “La Boheme,” November 8th and 10th at Lynchburg’s HIstoric Academy Theatre.
The OPERA AMERICA Level Four Professional Company in downtown Lynchburg kicks off its 20th Anniversary season in October 2024. The company produces fully-staged opera events with full orchestra each season, as well as smaller operas, concerts, cabarets, lectures and talkbacks. The company offers a community outreach program of performances and lectures in schools, community venues, and in its studios at 701 Main Street.
A quartet of singers chosen twice each year through national auditions, YAPS performs the bulk of our community programs in elementary schools, community centers, public libraries and historic landmarks throughout the region. In OOTJ’s 19th season the YAPS reached more than 6,000 central Virginians.