Ursula Sturgeon
Ursula Sturgeon is a theatre dramaturg who became obsessed with opera as a toddler and has been wild about it ever since. (Most infants who listened to those Baby Mozart tapes turned out perfectly normal. She did not.) She is based in the Chicagoland area and is particularly interested in finding new ways to connect opera to modern audiences. She has previously served internships at Spotlight on Opera and the Opera Festival of Chicago, and currently presides on the board of directors of Scotch N’ Soda Student Theatre, the oldest co-ed college theatre organization in America. Being one of those young Gen Z whippersnappers, she is currently a student at Carnegie-Mellon University’s School of Drama, and she can be found on Instagram at @zauberfloting.
I had the pleasure of going with some members of the Pittsburgh Opera to the PROTOTYPE Festival in New York at the start of the year- almost unfortunate it was so early on in 2025 because it set my expectations for the year so high!
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
Ursula Sturgeon looks at the furry opera company HowlAria and discovers that maybe one man’s Callas recording collection is another man’s fursuit.
Perhaps the conversation about Rigoletto and disability isn’t limited to physical appearance. What if we broaden the scope of what disability in this opera might look like?
