Enjoy William Shakespeare's beloved romance, presented in a collage of operatic settings by Charles Gounod, Vincenzo Bellini, and others, with Leonard Bernstein's musical theater adaptation West Side Story and scenes from Shakespeare's original stage play. Performed by voice students from the UM second-year opera workshop, directed by Professor Joshua Major, with musical direction by Professor Timothy Cheek.

This program is copresented by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the UM School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.