Guest artists
Past Opera Theatre VCU master class presenters and guest artists have included:
- Thomas Moser – VCU alumnus, Vienna Staatsoper
- Fabiana Bravo – auspices of Virginia Opera
- Barbara Dever – Metropolitan Opera, auspices of Virginia Opera
- Maestro Peter Mark – artistic director, Virginia Opera
- Maestro Dan Saunders – associate conductor, Virginia Opera
- Joe Walsh – associate artistic director and principal coach, Virginia Opera
- Thomas Truhitte – auspices of Virginia Opera
- Matthew Burns – VCU alumnus and house bass-baritone, New York City Opera
- Pamela Armstrong – VCU alumna, Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera
- Shirley Verrett – world-renowned artist
- Nico Castel – world-renowned artist and principal diction coach and character tenor, Metropolitan Opera
- Peter Atherton, Ph.D. – director of Opera Studies, Chapman University (Los Angeles) and Operafestival di Roma
- Karen Knight – resident artist and guest director, Sight and Sound Millenium Theatre
- Glenn Winters, Ph.D. – guest artist and baritone, Virginia Opera
- Richard Harrell – Juilliard Opera Center, San Francisco Opera, director of opera at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
- Chris Burnside – chair, VCU Department of Dance and international choreographer
