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60
YEARS
67
PRODUCTIONS
from modest origins
On November 18, 1960, a group of Hyde Parkers opened a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers in the University of Chicago’s Mandel Hall. From this beginning grew The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, which has staged more than fifty productions of the G&S full-length comic operas.
meet two of our
creative team
Shane Valenzie
Artistic Director
Matthew Sheppard
Music Director
Our Board of Directors (2021 – 2022)
Victoria Granacki
Roger M. Huff, Treasurer
Mark A. Johnson, President
William Paul Jones, Jr.
Michael Kotze
Nancy Levner
John Plampin, Secretary
Benjamin Recchie
Barbara Schubert
Sara Stern, Vice President
Diana Stokes, Assistant Treasurer
SUSTAINING LIFE MEMBERS
Calvert Audrain
Helen K. Bailey
Judy Chernick
Hon. Barbara Flynn Currie
Trip Driscoll
Robert Green
Susan Hull
Carol Fisher Saller
Joyce Swedlund
Martha Swisher
Noel Taylor
