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Soprano LYNNE ABELES, as a
member of the Opera Studio at Dicapo Opera Theatre in NYC, was heard as
Sophie in
Tobias Picker's Emmeline, and Veronique in Pasatieri's Hotel
Casablance for them this season. Director JOE BANNO recently directed plays at Studio Roanoke in Virginia. He returns in March to direct Dear Abe a new play by Adam Hahn. Mezzo Soprano SEPTEMBER BIGELOW performed the music of Christof Bergman, including selections from his opera, Piazza Navona, in Cancun, Mexico. Countertenor BIRAJ BARKAKATY is the newest member of ARTEK a vocal ensemble based in NY that performs and tours regularly. He recently performed Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare with Bel Cantanti Opera in Washington DC. On March 7 he performs as soloist in Bach's St. John Passion with Herb Dimmock's Bach Concert Series in Baltimore. Baritone TIMOTHY ROBERT BLEVINS performed the roles of the Beggar and Happy Mac in Duke ellington's Beggar's Holiday at Pittsburgh Opera Theatre in December. In March he performs Crown and Sportin Life in Porgy and Bess with El Paso Opera. He then travels to Virginia Opera for performances of Crown in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Conductor THOMASZ BIERNACKIwas recently the Music Director at the Gliwicki Teatr in Glowice/Poland. Bass-baritone , BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD is a graduate student at the Julliard School. In December he performed a concert in New Hampshiore premiering a new work written by Jerry Ascione. On January 30 he performed Mr. Jenks in the Tenderland as a part of Julliard's FOCUS series. On March 14 he performs Beethoven's Mass in C with Mid-America Productions at Carnegie Hall. Mezzo Soprano LAURA BRIOLI recently returned to Livorno for performances of Amneris in Verdi's Aida. She performed as soloist in Handel's Messiah at the Veneto Festival with I Soloisti Verneti led by Maestro Claudio Scimone. She also performed Analgisa in Bellini's Norma with Festival Zvolen in the Slovac Republic. Bass baritone ROLAND BURKS did a workshop at the Cell Theater in NYC for the Center for Contemporary Opera. The new work was The Secret Agent by Michael Dellaira. The he traveled to Pittsburgh for performances with Pittsburgh Opera Theatre in a new production of Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday. On March 12 and 13 he performs Porgy in Porgy and Bess in his debut with El Paso Opera. Soprano REBECCA CARR recently made her debut at Carnegie Hall as soloist in the Vivaldi Gloria with Mid-America Productions.. Conductor/Pianist
RICHARD CARSEY is Music Director of Skylight
Opera in Milwaukee, and the Summer Pops Artistic Director of the
Racine Symphony Orchestra
in
Wisconsin. He was the Music
Director of A Little House on the
Prarie, a new musical directed by Francesca Zambello, at Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey. He is currently Music Director
for the National Tour of the US and Canada. He also was Music
Director of another new musical, Minister’s
Wife, by Josh Schmidt and Jan Tranene at the Writer’s Theater in Chicago. In
March he is Music Director for The
Wiz at First Stage in Milwaukee. He is also doing
new orchestrations of the show for children and The Wiz Foundation. On May 8
he will be guest conductor with the Sheboygan
Symphony Orchestra. Tenor VINCENT CHAMBERS performed excerpts from La Boheme
for the
Townsend Opera Gala concert. He also returned to Townsend Opera in January for
performances as Danilo in Lehar's
Merry Widow. On March 27 he will perform as tenor soloist
in Mozart's Requiem with State University of California at Chico. Tenor BRETT COLBY is president of the local Arts Council in Asbury Park , NJ. He performed Goro in Madama Butterfly with the Westfield Symphony Orchestra. Director JONATHAN EATON is artistic
and general manager of Pittsburgh
Opera Theater. He recently has been appointed co-artistic
director of THING for
the Ruhr 2010 Festival in
Germany..
The fantastic season has begun. The 2009-10 season is busy at Pittsburgh
Opera Theater with several new productions. The first was Brundibar. In
December was Duke Ellington's Beggar's
Holiday. In February is The Love Spell by
Montemezzi. In May he directs a production of Porgy and Bess for New Jersey State Opera. Baritone LARS FOSSER recorded his upcoming CD entitled The Bad Guy with the Ruse Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, which includes arias and scenes from the Italian repertoire of villains. This Fall he has joined Opera 2001 in Spain for performances and a tour in the title role of Verdi's Rigoletto. Lars performed Schumann's 7 Szenen aus Goethes Faust with the Danish Radio Orchestra on January 28. Lars was recently featured in a cover story in Orpheus Magazine, one of the leading opera publications in Europe. Tenor DAVID GAGNON
portrayed the role of Hooker in Tobias Picker's Emmeline at Dicapo Opera Theatre. This
production went to Hungary for performances and a TV broadcast.. Tenor DAVID GUZMAN was soloist with orchestra at the Latin America Music Festival in Ft.
Worth Texas. In March and April he returns to Opera in the Heights for
performances of Rodolfo in Puccini's La
Boheme. On April 25 he performs a gala concert for Lake George Opera On May 1 he
perfiorms Jose in Carmen with
the Rapides Symphony Orchestra
in Louisiana. He returns to Narchez
Opera for Rodolfo in La Boheme
on May 30th. Soprano SUZAN HANSON recently performed Rinde Eckert's Orpheus
X directed by Robert Woodruff at the Duke Theatre in New York
City. In January she
returned
to Long Beach Opera for
performances as Mrs. Mueller, Kati, Mrs. Kakonya, and Sergent in
Robert Kurka's The Good Soldier
Schweik, which was also the opera's West Coast premiere.
On March 20 and 28 she portrays Pat Nixon in Adams Nixon in China also at Long Beach Opera. In
February she sang a concert with John Adams at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on
the Art and Music Series. Soprano SONYA HEADLAM made her debut as Musetta in La Boheme with Fargo-Moorhead Opera. Tenor JEAN HEBERT sang as tenor soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana at Hunter College in New York City in December.Tenor ELIAS HENDRICKS was recently in Ellington's Beggar's Holiday at Pittsburgh Opera Theatre. In January he returned to Birmingham Opera as the Messenger in Aida. In March he sings Don Curzio in Opera Birmingham's The Marriage of Figaro. In April he sings a gala concert for New Jersey State Opera. In May he is Mingo and Crab Man in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at New Jersey State Opera. Soprano LORI CELESTE HICKS performed a benefit at Westminster Church in Detroit Michigan. She also took part in a African American Women Composer's Symposium at the University of Dayton. On March 12 and 13 she makes her debut as Serina in Porgy and Bess with El Paso Opera. She recently stepped in at the last minute for Leona Mitchell to sing a guest artist recital at Benedict College in Columbia, SC. Bass ERIC JOHNSON is head of the opera department at Syracuse University. He recently performed Sarastro in Mozart's Die Zauberflote at Syracuse Opera. Soprano EUN HEE KIM recently made her debut with Sol Opera Company in Korea as Liu in Puccini's Turandot. On January 16, she performed in an opera gala with Sol Opera, where she also won an Artist of the Year Award. Conductor DANIEL LIPTON recently led an opera gala with Quebec Opera. Stage director JAMES MCNAMARA recently directed a new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Hessen Germany for Opera Classica Europe. Soprano VALERIE MACCARTHY made her debut with English National Opera in London as Renee/Alice in the new opera Lost Highway by composer Olga Neuwirth. It is based on the movie directed by David Lynch, and this production is directed by Diane Paulus. Conductor MATTHIAS MANASI holds a position as conductor of the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie Aue in Annaberg-Buchholz in Germany. Director JAMIEBETH MARGOLIS directs Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance at Boheme Opera in NJ this Spring. Soprano ANTONI MENDEZONA is a member of the Opera Studio at Dicapo Opera Theatre in NYC. In September she sang in Tobias Picker's Emmeline at Dicapo Opera Theatre. She traveled to Hungary for a live television broadcast as Sophie in Picker's Emmeline in November. In January she covered and performed Veronique in Pasatieri's Hotel Casablance also with Dicapo Opera. She also covers Beauty in Giannini's Beauty and the Beast at Dicapo Opera. On March 7 she performs as soloist in Bach's St. John Passion with Herb Dimmock's Bach Concert Series in Baltimore. Bass-baritone JESSE MERLIN recently performed in Seance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz with Santa Barbara Opera. He returned to Santa Barbara Opera perform the Sergeant of Police in Pirates of Penzance. In January he returned to Long Beach Opera for performances as Police Officer, 3rd Psych, Col. Zillergut, and Military Doctor in Robert Kurka"s The Good Soldier Schweik. This was the West Coast premiere of this opera. He is currently on tour with Opera A La Carte in HMS Pinafore March 4-9 in Florida and South Carolina. Bass-baritone MORGAN MOODY is presently a fest singer with Operahaus Zurich. We welcome NIELS MUUS to our distinguished roster of conductors. Conductor PAUL NADLER returned to the Metropolitan Opera. During the current season he will conduct Die Zauberflöte on April 15. He is also responsible for preparing many operas including Il Trittico, Le Nozze di Figaro, Aida, and Elektra. In February he returned to Montreal Opera as conductor for Puccini's Tosca. Soprano AMBER OPHEIM recently performed the music of New York Composer Christof Bergman, including selections from his opera, Piazza Navona, in Cancun, Mexico. This coming Summer she will perform with the Bad Hersfelder Festival in Germany. Baritone DARREN PERRY returned to Opera Lafayette in CD for performances as Aronte & Ubalde in Gluck's Armide in February at the Rose Building in NYC and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. He will perform as soloist in the Faure Requiem with Columbia Pro Cantare in Maryland on March 21. Mezzo-soprano MARGARET PETERSON made her debut with Dicapo Opera Theatre in the ensemble of Tobias Picker's Emmeline. She continues as a resident artist throughout the season as Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto. Ms. Peterson performed the role of Cleone in Liebermann's Penelope at Manhattan School of Music in December. On January 18 she performed a Broadway Gala concert at MSM conducted by Paul Gemignani, where she will be singing "I Remember" by Sondheim. Italian soprano CHRISTINA PIPERNO sang Turandot at Arena di Verona. Conductor FERNANDO RAUCCI will be conducting an Opera Gala concert with the Ukraine Philharmonic Orchestra of Dnepropetrovsk on December 27. He will also be working with them on a Commemorative Concert of the 50th Anniversary of Mario Lanza's death on December 29. Tenor CHARLES REID is a fest singer at the Nationaltheater
Mannheim. This season he sings Tamino, Don Ottavio, Macduff, and
Cassio. In February he joined Musica Viva for an Opera Gala in
Bremen's "Glocke". On May 20 he will make his debut performing Guido
Bardo
in a concert version of Zemlinsky's Eine
florentinische Tragödie with the Radio Symphonie Orchestrer Vienna
under the baton of Maestro Bertrand de Billy.. Mr. Reid is also engaged
next
season at the Metropolitan Opera covering Pylade in Iphigenie
en
Tauride. Director/Composer SCOTT RICHARDS's jazz opera, Charlie Crosses the Nation,
was performed at the New York City
Opera VOX Festival. Mezzo-soprano IRENE ROBERTS made
her debut with Townsend Opera as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbieri
de Siviglia. This season she also returned
to Palm Beach Opera.
As a young artist there her assignments on the main stage include
Emilia in Verdi's Otello,
Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni,
and Mercedes and covering Carmen in Bizet's Carmen. Conductor NICHOLAS ROSS is Director
of Orchestral Studies at
the University of Northern
Arizona. On February 14 he led a concert of Chamber
as well as Orchestral music at UNA. Soprano ERIN STEWART performed outreach concerts for the Fingerlakes Concert Series. She then was Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls with New Harmony Theater in Indiana. She is currently the female swing (Anne u/s, Petra u/s, Charlotte u/s) with the new production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music on Broadway. On April 26, Erin performs the world premiere of Georgia Shreve's Oratorio: Portraits of the Twentieth Century at Carnegie Hall. Soprano ALISA THOMASON recently
sang Haydn's Creation Mass with
Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society in Las Vegas.. On March 25 and 27 she
performs Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir
d'amore with Opera Las Vegas. Conductor ALESSANDRO TORTATO is very busy conducting operas
and symphony orchestras in Italy. Conductor ERIC TOWNELL is currently Music Director of the Rochester Choral Society and the Master Singers of Milwaukee. The Master Singers of Milwaukee continues it's season on March 6 with a concert in collaboration with the Ko-Thi Dance Company. The Rochester Choral Society continues it's season with the Mozart Requiem on February 27. On March 20 is a program of Pergolesi, Schumann, Dove, and Rutter. .
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