Greenville Light Opera Works

The Greenville Light Opera Works (GLOW) is a non-profit professional opera, operetta and musical theatre company in Greenville, South Carolina. In 2013, the company began operating under the name GLOW Lyric Theatre.

GLOW Lyric Theatre is a professional non-profit (501C3) performing arts organization with a mission to reflect the social and political issues in South Carolina through thought provoking productions of opera, operetta and musical theatre. In 2013, GLOW moved permanently to a Summer Festival season, producing shows in repertory during the month of July and August. They then added a Winter/Spring "Raising Voices" series to be performed at various venues in Greenville, SC. All productions are fully staged with orchestra or band (for musical theatre). GLOW is a member of the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) and is an associate member of Opera America.

GLOW was founded in 2009 by opera singer, conductor, and music professor at Presbyterian College, Dr. Christian Elser, and musical theatre actress and stage director Ms. Jenna Tamisiea. GLOW's inaugural production of Mozart's "The Impresario" in April 2010 took place at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina before the residency at Centre Stage Theatre was announced in the fall of 2010. GLOW was in residence at Centre Stage until fall 2013. In the summer of 2013 GLOW announced their formal move to the Peace Center's Gunter Theatre for the 2014 Summer Festival, and the Younts Center for Performing Arts for their new Chamber Opera Series. In 2012 GLOW opened rehearsal space and offices in the Simpsonville Arts Center. In 2013 administrative offices were moved to the Younts Center for Performing Arts in Fountain Inn, SC. At the end of 2015, GLOW's administrative offices were removed from Fountain Inn under a new, and less arts-sympathetic city administration. Glow has since flourished, producing a four show winter season, and three show summer festival season, at Greenville's Fine Arts Center.

In the spring of 2012, Greenville Light Opera Works opened the GLOW School of Music & Drama, a community music school dedicated to musical theatre education for children. In 2013 the GLOW Apprentice Artist Program was initiated (GAAP). This young artist program gives four young pre-professional singers the chance to perform and cover roles in the GLOW Festival Season, as well as receive stage training and master classes in opera and musical theatre.

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