The halls of Meadows seem to always be filled with music, but every couple of months Meadows Opera Theatre emerges from the practice rooms to present its finest singers in an Opera Free for All.

In September the first performance of the season took place in the Hope Lobby of the Owens Fine Arts Center.

Titled “New Faces and Old Friends,” the concert included new and returning voice students from the Meadows School of the Arts.

Singers performed arias from operas like Verdi’s “Don Carlos” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” as well as musical theatre numbers from Bernstein’s “Peter Pan” and Guettel’s “The Light in the Piazza.”

Overall, 12 vocalists performed in the concert.  

Among the many talented productions, Silvia Nunez and Corrie Donovan gave the most exceptional performances.  Nunez sung “O don fatale” (“O terrible gift”) from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Don Carlos.”

Nunez captured the anguish of Eboli beautifully and gave a fabulous performance.

With a dagger and poison on hand, Donovan sung the role of Juliet in Charles Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette.”

Portraying Juliet as she is about to take the poison to feign her death, Donovan had command of her voice and showcased good acting as well.

On a lighter note, Allison Reeves played the role of Wendy in Leonard Bernstein’s “Peter Pan.”

The next opportunity to see your fellow students perform is this Friday at 1 p.m. in the Hope Lobby.

The Meadows Opera Theatre will be presenting “Tell me the Truth about Love!”

This performance celebrates the joys, the trials and the surprising courses that love takes throughout our lives, and is told through music, poetry and the spoken word.  There will be selections from “South Pacific,” “A Little Night Music,” and “Nothing like a Dame,” as well as selections from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”

As the name of the concert series suggests, this performance is free so grab a lunch, take a seat and listen to your fellow SMU students sing the truth about love.