St. Croix Valley Opera is a new non-profit opera/musical theatre company with headquarters in Stillwater. The mission of SCVO is to produce high-quality musical performances in the Twin Cities East Metro (specifically the Stillwater/St. Croix River Valley) area that enrich the arts environment and help amateur artists advance their careers by performing alongside experienced professionals. Our vision is to establish Stillwater and its surroundings as a regional music cultural center with a vibrant community of emerging and professional artists. The goal of the organization is to curate an ongoing regular season of opera/musical theatre productions in Stillwater, including an annual summer music festival, to achieve these ends. We propose providing talented singers from the region the opportunity to gain the stage experience they need move from emerging/amateur status into a full professional career, sustainably bridging the arts in this region to the rest of the nation/world in the process. Operatunity Theatre was our founding name and became recognized as a corporation within the State of Minnesota in late 2018 and through such an outpouring of support from the region, we changed our name in August of 2020 to St. Croix Valley Opera.