The Comic Opera (COG) is a semi-professional theater company dedicated to performing the great pieces of the operetta and light opera repertoire.
Casts generally mix professionals with talented members drawn from the community and from students and staff from the University of Michigan.
COG presents English translations of classic French, Italian, and German operetta, and the best of the early American musical theater.

COG is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has toured the length of the state of Michigan, and has, on occasion, peformed in near-by Ohio. With the dawning of 2003, we celebrated our 30th year bringing the finest lyric theater to Southern Michigan and the Great Lakes area, and proudly sponsoring the Harold Haugh competition.