

WE TAKE YOU PLACES YOU’VE NEVER BEEN
St. Croix Valley Opera is a non-profit organization designed to produce high-quality musical art performances for the bright and vibrant local and regional east metro communities surrounding Stillwater, Minnesota. We wish to provide educational, performance, and employment opportunities working in the arts alongside established professionals, granting valuable experience for local emerging performing artists, aspiring to fulfill their dreams of taking the next step toward professional career advancement in the performing arts.
Our vision is to establish Stillwater and its surroundings as a regional music cultural center with a vibrant community of emerging and professional performing artists. Our continued vision for our opera/musical theatre company is to curate an ongoing regular season of Opera/Musical Theatre productions in Stillwater focused around offering local/regional talent the opportunity to gain valuable professional performance experience making them more attractive to move from that emerging stage of a career into a full professional career, sustainably bridging the arts in this region to the rest of the nation/world in the process. We have big plans!

B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S
IN MEMORIAM & LEGACY BOARD

Margaret Jane Wray
In Memoriam Board Member

Trygve Olsen
Founding Board Vice-Chair

Carol Carver
Founding Board Member

Edward M. Nelsen III
Legacy Board Chair

Michael Ruppert
In Memoriam Founding Board Treasurer

Sonia Esch
Founding Board Secretary

Layton "Skip" James
Legacy Board Member

Laurann Kirschner
Founding Board Chair & Secretary

Amanda Ressler
Former Treasurer

Robert Korluka
Founding Board Member
P R E S S

Opera Star Comes home
Two years ago Jack Swanson was kicking his heels at home in his native Stillwater, having just completed his training as an operatic tenor...





















