Season
Operas
Concerts
Competition
Artist
in Residence Concerts
Operas
La
Bohème
by Giacomo Puccini
Saturday, June 5, 2010; 4:30PM; Symphony
Space, NYC
Saturday, June 12, 2010; 8:30PM;
Symphony Space, NYC
SYNOPSIS
Act
I
Paris
on Christmas Eve.
Two Bohemians, Marcello, a
painter, and Rodolfo, a poet, are
attempting to keep warm in their
freezing apartment.
Marcello suggests burning a
chair, but Rodolfo prefers to burn pages
from his latest drama. Each page blazes, giving a sudden bit of warmth, but soon
fades, leaving them cold again.
Their roommate, Colline, enters
and another roommate, Schaunard, quickly
follows, bringing firewood, some food
and wine.
Benoit, their landlord, enters,
demanding the rent, which is overdue.
The roommates welcome him and
shower him with wine and flattery.
When Benoit boasts of marital
indiscretions, the roommates realize
this is the perfect opportunity to get
rid of him. They pretend to be shocked
by his remarks and throw him out.
They depart to Café Momus.
Rodolfo
stays behind to finish some work, but
agrees to join them later.
There is a knock at the door.
It is Mimi, their neighbor.
Her candle has gone out and she
asks Rodolfo to relight it.
Mimi, very ill, nearly faints and
in the process, drops her key.
The two begin searching in the
darkness.
Rodolfo finds it and slips it
into his pocket.
He pretends to continue to look,
hoping she will stay longer.
The roommates call out, urging
Rodolfo to hurry along.
Mimi and Rodolfo leave together
for Café Momus.
Act
II
Café
Momus.
As Rodolfo and Mimi make their
way to the café, Rodolfo buys her a
bonnet.
Mimi is delighted.
Musetta makes a spectacular
entrance along with her latest patron,
Alcindoro.
She sees Marcello, her ex-lover.
Attempting to make him jealous,
she creates a big scene, doing anything
to get his attention.
Marcello deliberately ignores
her, and she is infuriated.
However, he is no match for her,
and Marcello eventually succumbs to her
charms.
Musetta must get rid of Alcindoro,
if she is going to be with Marcello. She pretends her shoe is too tight and needs him to leave
immediately to buy her another pair.
As Alcindoro leaves, Musetta
falls into Marcello’s arms.
Act
III
A
snowy afternoon in February outside of a
tavern.
Mimi enters asking for Marcello.
It is obvious by her violent
coughing that she is very sick.
She pours out her heart to
Marcello saying that Rodolfo and she
have separated because of his intense
jealousy.
When Mimi sees Rodolfo coming,
she hides, trying not to be noticed. She overhears Rodolfo saying to Marcello that he is going to
leave her because she is a flirt.
When Marcello presses Rodolfo for
the real reason, he tells Marcello that
he is heartbroken.
He knows that she is dying and he
has no way to provide for her.
If he pushes her away, she may be
able to find a rich patron who can help
her.
Musetta’s laugh can be heard
from inside the tavern.
Marcello, filled with jealousy,
rushes into the tavern.
While Musetta and
Marcello are sparring, Mimi and Rodolfo
are singing of their love for each
other.
They decide to stay together
until spring.
Act
IV
The
Bohemians’ Apartment.
Marcello and Rodolfo are
attempting to work but are distracted by
thoughts of Mimi and Musetta. Colline and Schaunard enter and begin to joke and to
horseplay.
Musetta suddenly interrupts them
with the news that Mimi is dying and has
asked that her last moments be with
Rodolfo.
They rush down the stairs to help
her into the apartment. Knowing the
seriousness of Mimi’s condition,
Musetta gives Marcello her earrings to
sell and asks him to buy medicine and to
call a doctor.
She then decides to leave with
him in order to buy Mimi a muff for her
cold hands.
Colline, sings of his overcoat,
which he plans to pawn to help Mimi.
Mimi and Rodolfo are left alone.
They reminisce on happier times,
recalling the night they met. As Mimi sleeps, the others return. Mimi asks for Musetta and Musetta hands her the muff she just
bought for her.
Stricken with grief, Musetta
prays for Mimi to live.
Mimi quietly passes before the
doctor can arrive.
As the friends realize Mimi is
gone, they look to Rodolfo who is still
unaware.
When he realizes what has
happened, he cries out Mimi’s name in
anguish, weeping helplessly.
Carmen
by Georges Bizet
Saturday, May 1, 2010; 8:30PM; Symphony
Space, NYC
Saturday, May 8, 2010; 8:30PM; Symphony
Space, NYC
Saturday,
June 5, 2010; 8:30PM; Symphony Space,
NYC
Saturday,
June 12, 2010; 4:30PM; Symphony Space,
NYC
SYNOPSIS
Act
I
Outside
in a busy square in Seville in the 19th
century.
Micaëla
,
a peasant girl, enters, looking for
Corporal Don José.
Sergeant Moralès tries to
persuade her to stay, explaining that
Don José will be returning soon, but
she rushes off.
As Don José enters, Moralès
gives him the message that Micaëla was
looking for him.
Don José explains to Lieutenant
Zuniga that Micaëla is a 17 year old
orphan who has been brought up by his
widowed mother.
A
factory bell is heard, and a group of
gypsies, working at the cigarette
factory, emerge.
Carmen enters.
All of the men are transfixed
upon her, but Don José pays no
attention.
Before leaving, Carmen throws a
flower at him, and then returns to work.
As Micaëla enters, Don José
quickly picks up the flower and hides it
from her.
Micaëla brings a letter from his
mother along with some money.
In the letter, his mother urges
him to marry Micaëla.
Suddenly, a fight breaks out in
the factory between Carmen and another
girl.
Lieutenant Zuniga orders Don José
to arrest Carmen.
Bewitched by her, Don José
agrees that he will let her escape and
later secretly meet her at Lillas
Pastias Inn.
After releasing her, Don José is
arrested.
Act II
Lillas
Pastias Inn. Carmen is visiting with her friends Frasquita and Mercédès.
Zuniga is there. He mentions that Don José has been released.
As Escamillo, a bullfighter,
enters the inn, his fans celebrate his
recent victories.
Both Zuniga and Escamillo are
smitten by Carmen.
Zuniga tells Carmen he must leave
but he will return shortly.
Remendado and Dancaïro, two
smugglers, are also at the inn.
They try to persuade Carmen,
Frasquita and Mercédès to smuggle some
contraband, but Carmen is in love and
she decides to wait for Don José.
When he arrives, Carmen is very
happy and begins to dance for him.
In the distance, the bugle call
can be heard signaling him to return him
to his barracks.
He begins to leave, but Carmen
mocks him.
She tries to persuade him to live
the free life of a gypsy.
Zuniga returns to the inn looking
for Carmen. Overcome with jealousy, he defies his duty.
The smugglers escort Zuniga from
the inn.
Don José has no choice but to
stay with the gypsies.
Act III
The
smuggler’s hideout hidden in the
mountainside.
Carmen is growing tired of Don
José.
She urges him to go home, but he
refuses.
Frasquita and Mercédès begin
reading each other’s fortunes with a
deck of cards. Carmen takes her turn
with the cards but to her horror, her
fortune keeps showing that she will die
and so will Don José.
The gypsies leave in order to
smuggle the contraband while Don José
stays behind to guard the camp.
Micaëla arrives at the mountain
in search of Don José.
Escamillo arrives at the camp
looking for Carmen.
He and Don José begin to fight.
The gypsies return and break up
the fight. Escamillo invites the gypsies (Carmen in particular) to his
upcoming bullfight in Seville.
In the darkness, Don José sees
Micaëla.
She convinces him to return home.
After hearing that his mother is
dying, he leaves, despite his intense
jealousy.
Don José warns Carmen that they
will meet again.
Act IV
The
Arena where a bullfight is taking place.
Arriving with Escamillo, Carmen
is warned by Frasquita and Mercédès
that Don José is there.
She waits to speak with him.
When he appears, Carmen tells him
there is nothing left between them and
that she no longer loves him.
He refuses to believe this.
He tells her that he still loves
her; that he adores her.
As she begins to walk away, he
begs her not to leave him, but to no
avail. The cheers at the bullfight can be heard in the background.
She tells him that she is in love
with Escamillo.
You can hear the cheers of
victory for Escamillo in the distance.
Walking toward the arena, she
throws his ring at him.
In his jealous rage, he stabs her
to death. As the crowd leaves the arena,
they are shocked by what has occurred.
Don José surrenders repeating,
“My Carmen, my beloved Carmen!”
Past
Performances
Manon
by Jules Massenet
Saturday, November 7, 2009; 8:30PM;
OPENING NIGHT; Carnegie's Weill Hall
Friday, November 13, 2009; Symphony
Space, NYC
Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Saturday, January 16, 2010; 8:30PM,
Symphony Space, NYC
Saturday, January 23, 2010; 8:30PM;
Symphony Space, NYC
Saturday, January 30, 2010; 8:30PM;
Symphony Space, NYC
Rigoletto
by Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday, February 27, 2010; 8:30PM;
Symphony Space, NYC
Saturday, March 6, 2010; 8:30PM;
Carnegie's Weill Hall
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Concerts
Saturday, December 5, 2010; 8:30PM;
Symphony Space
Saturday, May 1, 2010; 8:30PM; Symphony
Space
Saturday, June 5, 2010; 8:30PM; Symphony
Space
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Competition
Saturday, March 20, 2010; 4:00PM; (Age:
28 & under); Symphony Space
Saturday, March 20, 2010; 8:00PM; (Age: Over
28); Symphony Space
Prizes: 1st Prize:
$1,000; 2nd Prize: $500; 3rd Prize:
$250; Audience Choice
(1st, 2nd, & 3rd
Prizes: 75% of vote = Judges; 25% of
vote = Audience)
2010
Vocal
Competition
Winners
1st
Place Jennifer Feinstein
Audience
Choice Award Angela Gribble
3rd
Place Sarah Joy
Miller
Audience
Choice Award Jin-won Park
2010
Vocal
Competition
Division
I& II
March 20, 2010
4:00PM
& 8:00PM
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy
Thalia, NYC
John Yaffé, Music Director
PIANISTS:
Pei-wen Chen, Saffron Chung
JUDGES: Ruth Falcon, Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, Robin
Guarino, Juliana Janes-Yaffe’,
Arthur
Levy,
Lori McCann, Anthony Morss, Gordon
Ostrowski, David Rosenmeyer, William Tracy
PIANISTS
PEI-WEN
CHEN
Born
in Taipei,Taiwan. Ms.Chen graduated from
the National Academy of Art with highest
honor and performed Beethoven's Piano
Concerto No.4 in 1990. In 1992, Ms. Chen
entered the Mannes College of Music in
New York and Studied with Madame
N.Svetlanova. In 1994, she performed
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody
on the theme of Paga-nini with the
Mannes Orchestra conducted by Maestro
M.Charry. Shortly after graduating from
Mannes with a special piano award,
Ms.Chen made her debut at the Weill
Recital Hall of the Carnegie Hall in
1995. Ms. Chen has been performing
solo and chamber music works
throughout many places in countries like U.S.A.,
France, Germany, Italy, Austria,etc. Ms.Chen
performs often in the
"Alexander Paley Chamber Music
Festival" Richmond, Virginia
and in Moulin d'Ande in France.In December 2001,
Ms.Chen made her Paris debut in Salle
O.Messiaen in Maison de
Radio France with Concerto Pathetique for two pianos by Liszt.
SAFFRON CHUNG
Native
of Korea, Saffron Y. Chung considers New
York City her home.
She received her Bachelors of
Music from Oberlin College, where she
was the first student to double major in
Piano Performance and Vocal
Accompanying.
She also has Masters of Music in
Accompanying from the University of
Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of
Music.
She has worked as an assistant
conductor of opera companies such as
Chautauqua Opera, El Paso Opera, Florida
Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Madison
Opera and Utah Festival Opera Company,
under the baton of Harry Bickett,
Richard Buckley, Barbara Day,-Turner,
Victor De Renzi, John DeMain, Raymond
Harvey, David Larsen, Robert Lyall, Luis
Salemno, and Bob Tweeten.
She just returned from leading a
workshop of Brahms lieder for the voice
department at the Hong Kong Academy for
Performing Arts.
SEMI-FINALIST
& FINALIST JUDGES
(In
alphabetical order)
RUTH FALCON
Soprano/Voice
Teacher Ruth Falcon has performed in leading opera houses in Europe
including the Paris Opera, Vienna State
Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera
at Covent Garden, Hamburg State Opera,
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera Monte Carlo,
Prague Opera. and Teatro La Fenice. In
1989, she made her Metropolitan Opera
debut and followed with many other
leading roles with that company.
She was the winner of
competitions in Bussetto, Vercelli, Rio
de Janiero, Geneva, and the Metropolitan
Opera Council Auditions in New York, and
she has performed with many of the
world's great conductors. She is also a
voice teacher of international
reputation. She has trained many star
performers on the operatic stage,
including Deborah Voigt, Margaret Jane
Wray, and Sondra Radvanovsky,
and is on the faculty of the Mannes
School of Music.
She teaches apprentices in the
Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young
Artist Development Program.
JEANNE
GOFFI-FYNN, ED.D. M.M.
Soprano
Jeanne
Goffi-Fynn is active both as a
performer and teacher in the New York
City area.
Dr. Goffi-Fynn received her
Doctorate from Columbia University,
Teachers College where she was recently
appointed as director of the Doctoral
Cohort Program in the Program of Music
and Music Education.
She continues working in the area
of Vocology, specifically in the
retraining of singers, after completing
internships at the Grabscheid Voice
Center, Mount Sinai Hospital and at St.
Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in the
diagnosis and treatment of singing voice
disorders.
She has presented workshops and
masterclasses with NATS (National
Association of Teachers of Singing), The
Voice Foundation, and the New York
Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA) in
addition to pedagogical presentations at
CMS (College Music Society) and NYSSMA
(New York State Schools of Music), and
ISM (International Society for Music
Education).
ROBIN GUARINO
Stage
Director Robin Guarino was a protégé of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (at the
Bayerische Staatsoper and The
Metropolitan Opera). She received her
MFA in Film at Bard College. She has
been on the Metropolitan Opera
stage
directing staff since 1992. She was
Dramatic Advisor for the Juilliard Vocal
Arts Masters Program from 2004-2009 and
presently holds the J. Ralph Corbett
Distinguished Chair of Opera at the
University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music. She has
taught at the Metropolitan Opera’s
Lindemann Young Artist Development
Program, Merola Opera Program,
Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artist
program. She has directed productions at
Seattle Opera, Glimmmerglass Opera, Wolf
Trap Opera, The Gotham Chamber Opera,
EOS Orchestra, and The Brooklyn Academy
of Music Next Wave Festival. She has
premiered works by composers such as Ned
Rorem, Jonathan Sheffer, Mark Adamo,
Libby Larsen, Jake Heggie, David Del
Tredici, and Douglas Cuomo.
JULIANA
JANES-YAFFE’
Soprano/Voice
Teacher Juliana Janes-Yaffé
has been a soloist at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln
Center
Festival, New-York Historical Society,
92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, Mannes
College of Music,
Steirischer
Herbst Festival, and with Concordia
Orchestra, Colorado Springs Symphony,
Brooklyn Philhar-
monic,
Dallas Symphony, Oakland Symphony, San
Jose Symphony, Florida Philharmonic,
Istanbul Philhar-
monic,
Orchester der deutschen Oper Berlin,
Tokyo City Philharmonic, Orquestra del
Teatro Colón, Orchestra
dell'Opera
di Genova, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie,
Symphonie-Orchester Graunke, Munich, and
92nd
Street
Y. Full-time principal soprano contracts
included Münster (Germany), Essen, and
Stuttgart; guest en-
gagements
in San Francisco, New York, Darmstadt,
Aachen, Osnabrück, Kassel, Berlin, and
Miami. She is
part-time
faculty at Mannes College of Music,
Preparatory Division, previously at NYU
(German Diction).
ARTHUR
LEVY
Arthur J. Levy, is on the faculty of Mannes College of Music and
Manhattan School of Music in New York
City;
he has been a vocal consultant and
master class teacher at the Glimmerglass
Opera and the Roundabout
Theatre
and has taught at the State University
of New York at Purchase, and at the
opera house in Stuttgart,
Germany.
He works with singers who appear
in all the major opera houses of the
world, including a number
of
Tony award winning Musical Theatre
performers. Mr. Levy has appeared
on CBS 60 Minutes, with his student
Audra Mcdonald. He has performed as
tenor soloist in both opera and oratorio
and is a graduate of the Manhattan
School of Music and has had additional
studies at the University of Wisconsin
at Madison.
LORI
MCCANN
Soprano/Voice
Teacher Lori McCann holds a B.M. degree from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison,
M.A.degree
from San Diego State University, and
D.M.A. and Artist Diploma from the
University of Cin-
cinnati
College-Conservatory of Music. She has
performed extensively in opera,
oratorio, and recital. Engage-
ments
have included Berliner Kammeroper and
the Neue Opernbühne, Virginia Opera,
Chautauqua Opera,
Opera
Company of Brooklyn, Whitewater Opera,
Sorg opera, Shreveport Opera, and
Pacific Chamber Opera.
She
is Assistant Professor of Voice at
Montclair State University, where she
teaches Applied Voice, Diction
for
Singers, Vocal Technique for Musical
Theater, and Performance Practicum.
Previously, she was on faculty
at
Columbia University Teacher’s College
and New York University. She is the
current President of the New
York
City Chapter of the National Association
of Teachers of Singing.
ANTHONY MORSS
Conductor
Anthony
Morss studied at the New England
Conservatory and the National Orchestral
Assoc-
iation
in New York. He was Chorus Master and
Associate Conductor with the Symphony of
the Air under
Leopold
Stokowski. He served as Chorus Master of
Juilliard's American Opera Center and as
Music Direct-
or
of the Majorca and Saragossa Symphonies,
and the Norwalk (CT) Symphony. He has
guest conducted
orchestras
in Madrid, Barcelona, Marseille, Cape
Town and Slovak Radio Symphony, and has
led opera
productions
at the Marseille Opera, New Jersey
Lyric, the Majorca Opera Society, Tampa
Bay Opera and
National
Grand Opera, and at Lincoln Center. He
has served as Music Director for the New
York State Opera
Company,
Verismo Opera of New York, the Maine
Opera, Asociacion Pro-Zarzuela en
America, and Eastern
Opera
Theatre of New York. He is currently
Music Director of the New Jersey
Association of Verismo Opera.
GORDON
OSTROWSKI
Gordon Ostrowski, Assistant Dean/Opera Producer, has served as
administrator, artistic producer, stage
director,
and teacher at Manhattan School of Music
since 1991. He serves on the board of
directors of Opera
America,
the National Opera Association, and the
Douglas Moore Fund for American Opera,
He has taught
classes
and directed concert operas for Opera
Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. He has
directed productions for the
New
Opera Festival of Rome. Since 2002 he
has been the stage director for Centro
Studi Lirica in Novafeltria,
Italy.
Since 1998 he has taught acting
style at the Chautauqua Opera. He has
previously served at Michigan
Opera
Theatre as assistant to the director,
the Cincinnati Opera as assistant and
stage director, the University
of
Southern California as producer/stage
manager, and Santa Fe Opera as
production assistant and assistant
director.
DAVID
ROSENMEYER
David Rosenmeyer made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the
Oratorio Society of New York - of which
he
is Associate Conductor - in
Stravinsky’s Mass in April 2007.During
the last season Mr. Rosenmeyer con-
ducted
the Bellas Artes Opera company of Mexico
in a staged gala as part of the
Cervantino Festival in Guana-
juato
and was the conductor of Rossini’s Barbiere
with Bleecker Street Opera and
Handel’s Serse
with Pocket
Opera
of New York and returned to Carnegie
Hall with Britten’s Te Deum and OSNY.
Has worked as a coach
and
conductor with the International Vocal
Arts Institute in their programs in
Tel-Aviv, Puerto Rico and Mon-
treal.
He has conducted the National Symphony
Orchestra of Argentina and the Israel
Chamber Orchestra as
well
as others in Argentina, Chile, Brazil,
Hungary, Israel and Mexico. Was the
Music Director of the Bach
Society
of Columbia University from 2003-2009.
WILLIAM TRACY
Pianist/coach
William Tracy is head coach of the Opera Studio at Manhattan School
of Music. He received
BM
and MA degrees from California State
University, Northridge. He was an
apprentice at the San Francisco
Opera,
then coach/accompanist for the San
Francisco Opera Center.
He then served as assistant
artistic dir-
ector/resident
conductor of the Anchorage Opera in
Alaska. He has appeared in the Great
Performers at Lincoln
Center
series, for the Metropolitan Opera
Lectures, and in masterclasses of Regine
Crespin, Evelyn Lear and
Benita
Valente. He was principal
coach/assistant conductor for Santa Fe
Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis,
Wolf
Trap Opera, Kentucky Opera, and Central
City Opera; accompanist for the Los
Angeles Philharmonic,
the
San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the
Carmel Bach Festival and the National
Chorale.
2010
Vocal
Competition
Finalists
DIVISION I (4:00 p.m.)
Joo Young Bang
J’nai Bridges
Kimberly Christie
Rebecca Fay
Jennifer Feinstein
Chelsea Rose Friedlander
Blake Friedman
Angela Gribble
Samantha Guevrekian
Jeremy Moore
Sarah Nisbett
Heather Phillips
Ann Sauder
Shanna Spiro
Diana Wangerin
PERFORMERS:
DIVISION I
(in
alphabetical order)
JOO YOUNG BANG
Soprano
JooYoung Bang is a native of Seoul in
South Korea. Ms. Bang is a Master’s
degree candidate at Manhattan School of
Music where she will perform Barbarina
in Le
Nozze di Figaro in 2010. Ms. Bang
has performed Romeo
et Juliette ( Juliette), Lucia di
Lammermoor (Lucia) and Un ballo
in Maschera (Oscar) at MSM.
J’NAI
BRIDGES
J’nai
Bridges is the 2009 National Opera
Association Legacy Award Winner,
first-prize winner: Harlem Opera Theater
Competition, first-prize winner of the
Leontyne Price Foundation Competition, a
recipient of the College Success
Foundation Scholarship, and Manhattan
School of Music the 2009 Richard F. Gold
Career Grant.
KIMBERLY
CHRISTIE
Kimberly
Christie is a cum laude graduate from
Mason Gross, where she earned a BM
in vocal performance and also received
an award for outstanding vocalist. She
has performed Blondchen from Die
Entführung
ausdem
Serail
with ConcertOPERA,
Philadelphia, Spring and a Fairy in
Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at
Mason Gross.
REBECCA FAY
Rebecca
Fay, soprano, from Olympia, Washington,
won her first Metropolitan Opera
National Council Audition at the young
age of twenty-two. Upcoming: Opera Santa
Barbara singing Juliette (Roméo
et Juliette)
and Nannetta (Falstaff).
This summer, she will sing Zerlina in Don
Giovanni with Ash Lawn Opera
Festival.
JENNIFER
FEINSTEIN
A
graduate of Indiana
University, Ms. Feinstein is pursuing
her second M.M. from Yale University.
Upcoming: Carmen in La Tragedie de Carmen with Yale Opera and
mezzo solos in the Verdi Requiem, Lola
in Cavalleria
Rusticana
Chautauqua Opera and Mrs.
Segstrom(cover) in A
Little Night Music with Opera
Theatre of St. Louis.
CHELSEA
ROSE FRIEDLANDER
Chelsea
Rose Friedlander, soprano, will be
receiving her Bachelor of Music in Vocal
Performance at the Cleveland Institute
of Music in May 2010. Chelsea recently
won Second Place in the 2010 Barry
Alexander International Vocal
Competition.
She has performed Blondchen , Marie,
Sophie, and the Dew Fairy.
BLAKE
FRIEDMAN
“Fresh
Lyric Tenor” (OperaNews Online) Blake
Friedman, praised for his
“climactic high notes” (Q on Stage),
is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and is
currently attending the Manhattan School
of Music where he is a member
of the Professional Studies
Degree program as recipient of the
Rodgers and Hammerstein Scholarship
Award.
ANGELA GRIBBLE
Angela
Gribble is currently a Master’s degree
candidate at the Manhattan School of
Music. This summer she will be singing
the role of Königin de Nacht (Die
Zauberflöte) with Prelude to
Performance. Roles include:
Despina (cover)
in Così
fan tutte with
Pocket Opera of New York, Adele in Die
Fledermaus, Dorinda in
Orlando.
SAMANTHA
GUEVREKIAN
Versatile
American soprano, Samantha Pruyn
Guevrekian, noted for her pure,
sweet-sounding soprano voice, is the
recipient of the Paul Straney Vocal
Scholarship Competition, 2nd
place in the Marcella Sembrich Voice
Competition. Roles: Sister Gertrude in Dialogues
of the Carmelites, Belinda in Dido
& Aeneas, Despina in Così
Fan Tutte.
JEREMY MOORE
Jeremy J. Moore, baritone, debuted in this country at age ten
singing the title role in Amahl
and the Night
Visitors.
He made his European debut performing
Nardo in La
finta giardiniera and Papageno in Die
Zauberflöte
in Salzburg, Austria.
Roles include: Title role, Don
Giovanni with Delaware Valley Opera,
Papageno,
The
Magic Flute.
SARAH NISBETT
A
2010 vocal fellow at Tanglewood Music
Center, mezzo-soprano Sarah
Nisbett is first prize winner of
the National Opera Association Vocal
Competition and first runner-up of the
William C. Byrd International Young
Artist Competition. Operatic roles
include the Handel and Mozart heroes
Oreste and Sesto and Marcellina
in “Nozze di Figaro”.
HEATHER
PHILLIPS
Soprano
Heather Phillips, 25, of North Canton,
Ohio holds a masters at Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music.
She’s performed roles with Cincinnati
Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Theatre of
Lucca, Italy, Brevard Music Festival and
Bay View Music Festival. Upcoming
appearances include Musetta in
La
Bohème (Crested Butte Music
Festival).
ANN SAUDER
Lauded
as a "sumptuously and flexibly
voiced mezzo-soprano" by the
Bloomington Herald Times.
A native of Peoria, Illinois, Ann
has a Masters of Music at the Indiana
University School of Music.
Roles include: Sesto(Giulio
Cesare), Hansel (Hansel and
Gretel), and Dorabella (Così fan
tutte). Upcoming: Austin Lyric Opera
as Zulma in L'Italiana in Algieri.
SHANNA SPIRO
Shanna
Spiro is a lyric soprano who currently
resides in Manhattan and studies with
Shirley Love. She performed the Countess
Ceprano in New York Lyric Opera
Theatre’s Rigoletto
at Symphony Space and was an
Artist-in-Resident, performing at
Sympony Space in January.
Ms. Spiro performed as
Mimi, Dido, and The Countess
in Westchester.
DIANA WANGERIN
Diana
Wangerin is a lyric soprano currently
residing in New York City. Ms. Wangerin
performed the role of Marcellina
at
Symphony Space with Osh opera. She
received her Bachelor’s degree in
Vocal Performance from SUNY Purchase
Conservatory of Music in May 2009. Roles
include: Mother in Amahl and the Night
Visitors, Ceres in The Tempest.
DIVISION II (8:00 p.m.)
Javier Bernardo
Jonathan Beyer
Lazaro Calderon
Andrew Cummings
Catherine Freeman
Stephan Hartley
Keiko Kai
SeiHee Lee
Michelle Serrano Moeritz
Michael McAvoy
Sarah Joy Miller
Jin-won Park
Yungee Rhie
Jennifer Sgroe
Sun A. Yeo
PERFORMERS: DIVISION II
(in
alphabetical order)
JAVIER
BERNARDO
The
Peruvian tenor Javier Bernardo, is a
graduate student at Juilliard where he
studies with Dr. Robert C. White, Jr.
Competition winnings include: The Gerda
Lissner Foundation, the Classical
Singer, and the Metropolitan Opera
Council Auditions in Florida. Roles
include: Rinuccio in Gianni
Schicchi, Ferrando in Cosi
fan tutte.
JONATHAN BEYER
Jonathan Beyer
is a baritone who has performed with
Dallas Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Austin
Lyric Opera, Chicago
Opera Theater, Fort Worth Opera, Opera
Santa Barbara, The Chautauqua
Institution, Tanglewood Music Center,
Opera Grand Rapids and Aix-en-Provence,
and in the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Baton
Rouge Symphonies.
LAZARO
CALDERON
Puerto
Rico native Lazaro Calderon’s roles
include the Duke (Rigoletto),
Des Grieux (Manon)
both with NYLOT, Rodolfo (Boheme) with
the Ischia, Italy Opera Festival, as
well as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), and
Alfred (Die
Fledermaus)
with the University of Memphis.
Calderon covered Ruggiero in La Rondine
with Sarasota Opera.
ANDREW
CUMMINGS
Acclaimed
by the New York Times in Shaw Sings!
with Encompass New Opera Theater at
Symphony Space in NYC, Andrew Cummings
performed the title role in Rigoletto
with NYLOT at Carnegie’s Weill Hall.
Roles include: Renato
in Un Ballo in Maschera (
New Jersey Assoc. of Verismo Opera) and
Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro (OperaDelaware).
CATHERINE
FREEMAN
A
Resident Artist of both Connecticut
Opera and
the New York Lyric Opera Theatre,
she various roles such as: The Mother in Amahl
and the Night Visitors, Paride in
Gluck's Paride ed Elena, Cherubino
in Le nozze di Figaro.
She was recently a featured soloist with
the New York Lyric Opera Theatre at
Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital
Hall.
STEPHAN
HARTLEY
Stephen
Hartley has been seen in the Los
Angeles Times ,Chicago Tribune,
and the New York Times.
His baritone has been described
as “burnished and hardy” and
“beautifully lyric”.
Venues include:
Santa Fe Opera, Virginia
Opera,
Indianapolis Opera, Chautauqua Opera,
Sarasota Opera, Long Beach Opera. Upcoming: Carnegie Hall debut.
KEIKO
KAI
Keiko
Kai, mezzo-soprano,
made her operatic debut by singing the
role of the Third spirit in The
Magic Flute.
She
has performed The Third lady (The
Magic Flute), Mrs. Nolan (The
Medium), The Woman (world premiere, A
Night
of
Pity
by R.Cuckson), Dorabella (Cosi fan Tutte), Orlofsky (Die
Fledermaus), Cherubino (Le
Nozze di Figaro).
SEIHEE LEE
A
native of Seoul, Soprano SEI HEE LEE
.She received her Master of Music degree
and Professional studies diploma (PSD)
from Mannes College of Music , where she
studied with Ruth Falcon and Amy Burton
and was a recipient of a scholarship.
She made her professional debut,
Genovieffa in Puccini Suor Angelica with
Empire Opera in New York.
MICHELLE
SERRANO MOERITZ
Michelle
Serrano Moeritz, 2005 First Place
Regional Winner in the Metropolitan
Opera National Council Competition, is a
young Cuban-American Soprano which
critics laud as “very reminiscing of
the young Mirella Freni”. A musician
of expansive artistry, she has received
rave reviews as Verdi’s Desdemona as well as Mozart’s Donna
Elvira.
MICHAEL MCAVOY
A
graduate of the University of
Connecticut, Michael McAvoy has
performed Wagner in Faust (CT Lyric Opera) and
Alessio in La Sonnambula (CT
Concert Opera) and Curio in Julius
Caesar.
Competition Winnings: Opera
Theatre of CT Amici Competition. Michael
studied at Franco American Vocal
Academie in France and is an Resident
Artist in Naples.
SARAH JOY
MILLER
Sarah
Joy Miller
has performed the role of Mimi in Baz
Luhrmann’s Broadway La
Bohème.
The Los Angeles native
has appeared as Fiordiligi, Faust’s
Marguerite, and in the title roles of Lucia
di Lammermoor. She has been
heard with the Hong Kong Opera, Radio
Classica (Italy).
Competition Winnings: New York
Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions.
JIN-WON PARK
Born
in Seoul, Korea, Jin-Won Park, soprano,
studied at The University Mozarteum in
Salzburg, Austria where she earned a
Bachelor of Music in voice and a Master
of Music in opera. Awards include: Minister
of Culture music scholarship and a
prize at International Mozart
Competition and the Ferruccio Tagliavini
International Competition in Austria.
YUNGEE RHIE
Yungee
Rhie
earned MM from Indiana University and BM
from Ewha Womans University in Korea.
Currently, she
studies with Valentin Peytchinov.
Recent roles include Rosina
with Opera North Young Artist Program, Fairy
Godmother
and Olympia
with Indiana University Opera, Dorinda
with BASOTI program, and Euridice and La Speranza.
JENNIFER SGROE
Jennifer
Sgroe’s
operatic performances include Susanna (Le
Nozze di Figaro), Adele (Die
Fledermaus), Romilda
(Xerxes), Pamina (Die
Zauberflöte), Greta Fiorentino (Street
Scene), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione
di Poppea), Esther (Democracy),
Sandman/Dew Fairy (Hansel &
Gretel). Concert performances
include Angel (Handel’s Jephtha).
SUN A. YEO
Sun
A. Yeo was heralded as “the
extraordinarily beautiful singing and
acting of Yeo as Amelia...” (Raoul
Abdul, The New York Amsterdam News,
July/24-30/2008) in
Un
Ballo in Maschera with The Martina
Arroyo Foundation. Roles include:
Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Mimi in La
Bohème,
Amelia
in Un Ballo in Maschera,
Countess in Le
Nozze di Figaro.
2010
Vocal
Competition
Semi-Finalists
DIVISION I
Shanna Spiro
Heather Phillips
Diana Wangerin
Jeremy Moore
Sarah Moulton
Sasha Hashemipour
Blake Friedman
Rebecca Loeb
Angela Gribble
Kimberly Christie
Kristen Blanton
Ann Sauder
Vania Chan
Mara Saskin
J’nai Bridges
Joo Young Bang
Nina Berman
Allison Pohl
Rebecca Fay
Sarah Nisbett
Chelsea Rose Friedlander
Samantha Guevrekian
Justin Hopkins
Jennifer Feinstein
Ricardo Rivera
DIVISION II
Alina Lindquist
Javier Bernardo
Casey Hutchinson
SeiHee Lee
Sarah Joy Miller
Catherine Freeman
Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmai
Yungee Rhie
Sara Murphy
Jonathan Beyer
Lindsay Davis
Stephen Hartley
Keiko Kai
Natalie Aroyan
Jin-Won Park
Sooyeon Kim
Jennifer Sgroe
Michael McAvoy
Sun A. Yeo
Victor Khodadad
Zoe Vandermeer
Michelle Serrano Moeritz
Megan Chenovick
Andrew Cummings
Lazaro Calderon
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Artist
in Residence Concerts
Saturday, June 12, 2010; 12:00PM;
Symphony Space
Artist-in-Residence
Concert
Saturday,
June 12,
2010
12:00 PM
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy
Thalia,
New
York City
Music
Director:
John Yaffé
Conductor
for La Bohème & AIR Master Classes: Steven Crawford
Conductor for Carmen:
David Rosenmeyer
Assistant
Conductor/AIR Coach/Pianist: Doug Han
Assistant
Conductor/AIR Coach: Tony Bellomy
Various
Arias
GOUNOD:
“Je veux vivre…”
(Roméo
et Juliette)
—
Margaret Meyer —
GOUNOD:
“Faites-lui mes aveux…”
(Faust)
—
Melinda Learnard —
DELIBES:
“Où
va la jeune Indoue…”
(Lakmé)
—
Kristina Malinauskaite —
RAVEL:
“Arriere! Je recahuffe les bons…”
(L’enfant
et les sortileges)
—
Rachel S. Silverman —
VERDI:
“Pace, pace mio Dio…” (La
Forza del Destino)
—
Anita Lyons —
MOZART:
“Ach,
ich fühl's”
(Die
Zauberflöte)
—
Margaret
Meyer —
PREVIN:
“I Want Magic!…” (Streetcar Named Desire)
—
Lori Rohrs —
MOZART:
“Torna di Tito a lato…(La
Clemenza di Tito)
— Melinda Learnard —
MOZART:
“O
zittre nicht…”
(Die
Zauberflöte)
—
Kristina Malinauskaite —
WAGNER:
“Einsam in truben Tagen” (Lohengrin)
—
Anita Lyons —
MOZART:
“Dove sono…” (Le Nozze di Figaro)
—
Lori Rohrs —
MOORE:
“Silver Aria…(Ballad of Baby Doe)
— Rachel S. Silverman —
Carmen
“Les
tringles des sistres
tintaient…” (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès)
— Nora
Graham-Smith, Paige Cutrona, &
Melissa Chan —
“Mêlons!Coupons!…”
(Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès)
—
Nora Graham-Smith, Paige Cutrona, &
Melissa Chan —
“Carmen,
un bon conseil…” (Frasquita, Mercédès,
Carmen)
—
Paige Cutrona,Melissa Chan,Nora
Graham-Smith—
“C’est toi? C’est moi!...”
(Carmen/
Don José)
— Nora Graham-Smith & Juan Franco
—
La
Bohème
PUCCINI:
“Signorina Mimì…”
(Mimì,
Rodolfo, Musetta, Marcello)
— Paige Cutrona, Jameson James, Raquel
Suarez, Marcos Solá
—
“Dunquè
proprio finita…” (Mimì,
Rodolfo, Musetta, Marcello)
— Paige Cutrona, Jameson James, Raquel
Suarez, Marcos Solá
—
“C’e
Mimì…” (Mimì,
Rodolfo, Musetta, Marcello)
— Paige Cutrona, Jameson James, Raquel
Suarez, Marcos Solá
—
Carmen
Act
I
BIZET:
“Parle-moi de ma mère!…”
(Micaëla/Don José)
— Shanna Spiro & Juan
Franco —
“Près
des remparts de Séville…”
(Carmen/ Don José)
— Nora Graham-Smith & Juan Franco
—
Act
II
“Les
tringles des sistres
tintaient…” (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès)
— Nora Graham-Smith, Kristin
Jensen, & Melissa Chan —
Act
III
“Mêlons!Coupons!…”
(Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès)
—
Nora Graham-Smith, Kristin Jensen, &
Melissa Chan —
“C’est
des contrebandiers…Je dis…” (Micaëla)
— Shanna Spiro —
Act
IV
“Carmen,
un bon conseil…” (Frasquita, Mercédès,
Carmen)
—
Kristin Jensen,Melissa Chan,Nora
Graham-Smith
“C’est
toi? C’est moi!...” (Carmen/
Don José)
—
Nora Graham-Smith & Juan Franco —
Steven
Crawford
CONDUCTOR (Artist-in-Residence
Master Classes/ La Bohème: mainstage)
Maestro
Steven Crawford, whose final season with
the Metropolitan Opera included two performances
of La
Bohème
of which one was his Sirius radio
broadcast debut, is one of today’s
most versatile opera conductors. Shortly
following those performances, he was
chosen to conduct the world premiere of Honor,
a requiem for orchestra, chorus and
soloists composed by Christian McLeer in
honor of those who have died in service
to our country. Recently, he conducted
the professional premiere of Glory
Denied by Tom Cipullo for the
Remarkable Theatre Brigade, La
Bohème for the Inwood Shakespeare
Festival, Otello
for Kentucky Opera, and
Turandot
for Dayton Opera.
David
Rosenmeyer
CONDUCTOR (Carmen:
mainstage)
Maestro
David Rosenmeyer made his Carnegie Hall
debut conducting the Oratorio Society of
New York in Stravinsky’s Mass
in April 2007. He is also the Associate
Conductor of this society. He returned
to Carnegie Hall again with OSNY in 2008
and in March 2010 and was their
conductor in a tour to Hungary in the
summer of 2007. In October 2009 he lead
the Bellas Artes Opera Company of México
in a staged gala as part of the
Cervantino International Festival in
Guanajuato. This season, Maestro
Rosenmeyer conducted Rossini’s Barber
of
Seville with Bleecker Street Opera
and Handel’s Serse
with Pocket Opera New York. Born in
Argentina, David Rosenmeyer began his
studies in Israel.
Doug
Han
PIANIST/ASSISTANT
CONDUCTOR/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE COACH
Pianist
Doug Han has just finished his tenure as
coach/répétiteur for the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra's Knowlton Festival,
under the artistic directorship of Maestro
Kent Nagano. In that capacity, he
has appeared in recital with the winners
of Plácido Domingo's Operalia
Competition, played masterclasses held
by artists such as June Anderson &
Jennifer Larmore, and prepared concert
performances of Bellini's Norma, La
Sonnambula, and I Capuleti e
i Montecchi. In June 2010, Mr.
Han joins the music staff of the International Vocal Arts In-stitute-IVAI)
for their inaugural US edition, in
Blacksburg, Virginia.
Tony
Bellomy
ASSISTANT
CONDUCTOR/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE COACH
Pianist
Doug Han has just finished his tenure as
coach/répétiteur for the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra's Knowlton Festival,
under the artistic directorship of Maestro
Kent Nagano. In that capacity, he
has appeared in recital with the winners
of Plácido Domingo's Operalia
Competition, played masterclasses held
by artists such as June Anderson &
Jennifer Larmore, and prepared concert
performances of Bellini's Norma, La
Sonnambula, and I Capuleti e
i Montecchi. In June 2010, Mr.
Han joins the music staff of the
International Vocal Arts In-stitute-IVAI)
for their inaugural US edition, in
Blacksburg, Virginia.
PERFORMERS
(In
alphabetical order)
MELISSA
CHAN
Melissa
Chan comes from multi-ethnic Southeast
Asia, which helps her infuse her role
interpretations with fresh perspective
and a regality that is beyond her years.
Ms. Chan is regularly featured in
concert and opera performances in New
York, and is known to possess a learning
aptitude, performance reliability, and
intense work ethic that rival analysts
on Wall Street, where she once pursued a
career.
Mercédès is Ms. Chan’s debut
as a mezzo-soprano. Previous roles
performed include Contessa Almaviva,
Blanche (Carmelites), Liù, and Alcina.
Upcoming: Solo Recital: The Esplanade,
Singapore. Ms. Chan studies with Valerie
Sorel.
PAIGE
CUTRONA
Paige
Cutrona was heralded as ‘Passionate’
and ‘Vocally striking’ by the New York Times (Mimi, La
Bohème, Amore Opera, December
2009). Recent credits: Underworld Opera
Productions: Cephise/La Statue,
Rameau’s
Pygmalion,
Amore Opera:
Magic Flute, Pamina,
Merry
Widow, Valencienne. Solo debut at
Lincoln Center (Bernstein’s Chichester
Psalms,
2009).
The year 2010 will bring Der Fledermaus, Adele and several concerts. Upcoming in 2011,
European solo debut: Poulenc Gloria and
The Paul Leavitt Requiem at the American
Cathedral in Paris. Ms. Cutrona holds a
MM, Voice Performance, Carnegie Mellon
University and a BA, Music, Westminster
Choir College. She studies with Dr.
Jeanne Goffi-Fynn.
JUAN
FRANCO
Juan
Carlos has performed with New Orleans
Opera, Cleveland Opera, Opera de
Colombia, New Jersey Symphony, Lyric
Opera Cleveland, Ohio Light Opera,
Hudson Opera Theater & Orquesta Sinfónica
del Valle in Cali, Colombia, among
others. He is a European finalist of the
Pavarotti International Voice
Competition held in Modena, Italy. Mr.
Franco has an undergraduate degree from
the Oberlin Conservatory and a masters
degree from Rutgers University. He
currently lives in NYC where he performs
regularly in opera, oratorio and art
song. Mr. Franco also holds an
Electrical Engineering degree, summa cum
laude, Bradley University.
NORA
GRAHAM-SMITH
Nora
Graham-Smith, mezzo-soprano is thrilled
to be performing Carmen with the New
York Lyric Opera Theatre, having just
finished a season with Palm Beach Opera,
where she participated in their Young
Artist outreach operas, concerts, as
well as their main-stage season.
Ms. Graham-Smith is a graduate of the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and
will next be seen on stage with Florida
Grand Opera for the 2010-2011 season.
JAMESON
JAMES
Jameson
James has performed with Boston Lyric
Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Bronx Opera,
Atlantic Coast Opera Festival, DiCapo
Opera, Amato Opera, Dell’Arte Opera,
Aspen Opera Theater Center, New Texas
Festival, and Rome Opera Festival. He
received his Bachelor’s of Music from
Rice University’s School of Music, and
a Master of Music from the New England
Conservatory in Boston.
In 2007, Jameson was a regional
finalist at the Metropolitan National
Council Regional Auditions and was
featured in the Susan Fomke film- The Audition.
Also, he is a versatile singer
and has created roles for new operas.
He is a student of Arthur Levy.
SAMANTHA
JEFFREYS
Samantha
Jeffreys,
“reveals a beautiful, easy high
register balanced by a firm and
substantial low
voice” Barrett Cobb, NY Concert
Review.
2010 season includes the
Metropolitan Opera’s Masterly
Singing Series,
Gretel in Hansel
& Gretel with Nashville Opera,
Clorinda (cover) in La
Cenerentola
with Belleayre Music Festival, and
Musetta (cover) in La
Bohème
&
1st Spirit
(cover) in Die
Zauberflote with NYLOT. She made her
Carnegie Hall Solo Recital Debut
presented by Artists International. She
performed Pamina in The Magic Flute
with the Nashville Opera. Awards:
2007-2008 Metropolitan Opera
National Council Encouragement
KRISTIN JENSEN
Kristin
Jensen, Soprano, made her debut with New
York Lyric Opera Theatre in January as the
First Lady in Die
Zauberflöte. Kristin’s
operatic roles include Adina in The
Elixir of Love, Atalanta
in Xerxes,
Vespetta in
Pimpinone, Nora in Riders to
the Sea, Shepherd Boy in Tosca,
& First Spirit in Die
Zauberflöte. Kristin is making her
mainstage debut with Phoenix Opera as
First Spirit in Die
Zauberflöte this fall. Kristin is
an avid concert artist and recitalist
and has delighted audiences in
California, Arizona, Utah, Florida,
Canada, the Czech Republic, Italy, and
Austria. In 2009, Kristin released her
first CD,‘Till There Was You.
MELINDA
LEARNARD
Melinda
Learnard was last seen with Amore Opera
in The
Magic Flute as Third Lady and The
Mikado as Pitti-Sing.
Additional credits include: NYLOT’s
January Artist-in-Residence concert
at Symphony Space, Flora in Amore
Opera’s The
Merry
Widow, Governess in One World
Symphony’s Pique Dame,
and Marcellina in New York Opera
Forum’s Le
Nozze di Figaro.
Upcoming: Third Maid in NY Opera
Forum’s Elektra.
She enjoys all music, but
especially Spanish solo repertoire and
American art song. Before moving
to New York to study with Shirlee
Emmons, Ms. Learnard graduated from
Millikin University in Illinois.
ANITA
LYONS
Anita
Lyons, soprano, has most recently been
seen as Amelia in Un
Ballo in Maschera, Alice Ford in Falstaff,
and as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra. Highlights
of recent seasons include roles such as
Mimì in La Bohème, Gretel in
Humperdinck’s Hansel
and Gretel,
Bastienne
in Mozart’s Bastien und
Bastienne.
Having made several appearances
on Minnesota and Peoria
Public Radio, she has also been seen
with the Brevard Music Festival in North
Carolina, Indianapolis Opera, North Star
Opera in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the
Twin Cities Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Lyons holds a Master's degree
in Vocal Performance from Indiana
University.
KRISTINA
MALINAUSKAITE
Kristina
Malinauskaite, soprano received her BM
in Vocal Performance from Chicago
College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt
University, and is an Alumna of F.H.
LaGuardia High School. Recently she
became an ensemble member of the Bronx
Opera Company and has been seen as
Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (New
York Opera Forum), and Despina in Così
fan tutte (Underworld Productions). She
has performed with The Martina Arroyo
Foundation Inc.,Brooklyn
Repertory Opera, and has been a guest
artist for the American-Lithuanian
Community. Upcoming: Suor Dolcina
(understudy) & La Cercatrice
(understudy): Suor Angelica.
MARGARET MEYER
Margaret
Meyer (soprano) received her Master’s
degree from McGill University and
studies with
Ruth Golden of the Academy of Vocal
Arts.
She was the soloist in Mozart’s
Mass in C minor,
the Messiah, Brahms’ Ein
deutsches Requiem, and
Mozart’s
Exsultate, jubilate.
This summer,
Ms. Meyer joins the New York Summer
Opera Scenes Program with Joshua Greene
and Carol Yahr.
In the fall, she will sing Gretel
(Hänsel
und
Gretel)
and Zerlina (Don
Giovanni)
with the New York Opera Forum.
Ms. Meyer’s operatic roles
include Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Najade(Ariadne
auf Naxos), the title role in
Cavalli’s Calisto,
and Ruggiero
(Alcina).
LORI ROHRS
Lori
Rohrs, soprano, appears this summer as
the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro.
She has performed the title role in Suor
Angelica, Musetta in La
Bohème,
First Lady in Die
Zauberflote, Yum Yum and Peep Bo in The
Mikado, Gianetta in The Maid of
the Mountains, Minerva in Orpheus
in the Underworld, and in
contemporary works, the principal role
of Security Officer
in the West Coast Premier of The
Proposal. Ms. Rohrs made her
Carnegie Hall debut last June with
Pacific Opera. She has sung in master
classes with Gerald Steichen for two
seasons of New York City Opera’s VOX.
RACHEL S.
SILVERMAN
Soprano
Rachel S. Silverman, originally from
Columbus, Ohio, is a 2007 graduate of
NYU’s Steinhardt School (Bachelor of
Music, Magna cum Laude) where she
studied with Dr. Lori McCann and sang
Fire/Nightingale in Ravel’s L’enfant
et les Sortileges. She was recently
featured as Owl/Grasshopper in One World
Symphony’s concert of Janaček’s
The Cunning Little
Vixen. 2009 NYLOT
Artist-in-Residence. First place, 2006
NATS-NYC Competition. Attended
the Florence Voice Seminar in 2007,
studying with Julian Rodescu. She has
studied in Prague, focusing on Czech art
song with Jana Janušova (Academy of
Performing Arts).
MARCOS SOLA
Marcos
Solá, New York City based baritone,
returns to Natchez Festival of Music to
sing Dr. Falke in Die
Fledermaus.
In June, he will perform a program of
Zarzuela music with Houston Opera in the
Heights. Mr. Solá’s voice has been
described as “rich and robust with
artistic flair” whether he is singing
Mozart or Puccini.
Mr. Solá sang Mingo in the
acclaimed ‘Live
From Lincoln
Center’ New York City Opera
production of Gershwin’s Porgy
and Bess and went on to
sing Jake on the international tour and
with Natchez Festival of Music. The summer of 2003 also marked the release of his second CD, La
sangre del amor.
SHANNA SPIRO
Shanna
Spiro is a lyric soprano who currently
resides in Manhattan and studies with
Shirley Love.
This past March, Shanna was a
finalist for the NYLOT Vocal
Competition.
She has previously performed with
NYLOT in Rigoletto
as Countess Ceprano and in January for
the Artist-in-Residence Concert at
Symphony Space. In 2009, Ms. Spiro
performed as Mimì in
La Bohème,
Dido in Dido and Aeneas and The Countess in Le
Nozze di
Figaro
in Westchester.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in
Vocal Performance from SUNY Purchase in
May 2008 where she performed as Juno
in The Tempest, Fiordiligi
in Cosi fan Tutte, Nutrice
in the Coronation of Poppea, the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors.
RAQUEL SUAREZ
Dutch-born
Canadian Soprano, Raquel Suarez,
recently completed her Professional
Studies and Master’s degree at
Manhattan School of Music under the
tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. This
summer, Ms. Suarez will be joining the
prestigious International Vocal Arts
Academy in Tel Aviv as well as perform
Zerlina (Don
Giovanni)
with the Metropolitan Philharmonic of
New York. She will be covering the role
of Musetta (La
Bohème)
with the NY Philharmonic and performing
scenes at Symphony Space. Previous roles
include Ilia (Idomeneo): Martina
Arroyo Foundation, 1st spirit (Die
Zauberflöte): New York Lyric Opera
Theatre
Saturday, June 5, 2010; 12:00PM;
Symphony Space
Artist-in-Residence
Concert
Saturday,
June 5,
2010
12:00 PM
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy
Thalia,
New
York City
Music
Director: John
Yaffé
Conductor for La Bohème & AIR Master Classes: Steven Crawford
Assistant
Conductor/AIR Coach/Pianist: Doug Han
Assistant
Conductor/AIR Coach: Tony Bellomy
Various
Arias
DONIZETTI:
“Par le rang…” (La
Fille du Régiment)
— Mara Adler —
GERSHWIN:
“My Man’s Gone
Now…” (Porgy
and Bess)
— Melynda Davis —
PUCCINI:
“Si, mi chiamano
Mimi…” (La
Boheme)
— Alaina Logee —
DONIZETTI:
“So anch’io la virtù
magica…” (Don
Pasquale)
— Danielle Vita —
BELLINI:
“O Quante Volte…” (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
— Mara Adler —
CHARPENTIER:
“Depuis le jour” (Louise)
— Alaina Logee —
HANDEL:
“Tornami a vagheggiar…” (Alcina)
— Danielle Vita —
PUCCINI:
“Chi il bel sogno…(La
Rondine)
— Melynda Davis —
Steven
Crawford
CONDUCTOR (Artist-in-Residence
Master Classes/La Boheme: mainstage)
Maestro
Steven Crawford, whose final season with
the Metropolitan Opera included two performances
of La
Bohème
of which one was his Sirius radio
broadcast debut, is one of today’s
most versatile opera conductors. Shortly
following those performances, he was
chosen to conduct the world premiere of Honor, a requiem for orchestra, chorus and soloists composed by
Christian McLeer in honor of those who
have died in service to our country.
Recently, he conducted the professional
premiere of Glory
Denied by Tom Cipullo for the
Remarkable Theatre Brigade, La
Bohème for the Inwood Shakespeare
Festival, Otello for Kentucky Opera, and Turandot
for Dayton Opera. In the year
since he left the Met, Maestro Crawford
has conducted performances of Les
Contes
d’Hoffmann for his second season
with Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to
Performance (for whom his performances
of Don
Giovanni last summer were noted by
the New York Times as “lively, taut,
and polished”),
Don
Giovanni for Dayton Opera, Otello
with Vero Beach Opera, and The Medium/ Pagliacci for Syracuse Opera.
David
Rosenmeyer
CONDUCTOR (Carmen:
mainstage)
Maestro
David Rosenmeyer made his Carnegie Hall
debut conducting the Oratorio Society of
New York in Stravinsky’s Mass in April 2007. He is also the Associate Conductor of this
society. He returned to Carnegie Hall
again with OSNY in 2008 and in March
2010 and was their conductor in a tour
to Hungary in the summer of 2007. In
October 2009 he lead the Bellas Artes
Opera Company of México in a staged
gala as part of the Cervantino
International Festival in Guanajuato.
This season, Maestro Rosenmeyer
conducted Rossini’s Barber
of
Seville with Bleecker Street Opera
and Handel’s Serse
with Pocket Opera New York. Born in
Argentina, David Rosenmeyer began his
studies in Israel, where he spent much
of his childhood. In 1996, 2002 and
2005, Mr. Rosenmeyer conducted the
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of
Argentina and appear ed as a guest
conductor with orchestras in Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Israel, Hungary and México.
In
May of 2002, he was music director and
pianist for the world premiere of
"The Sandman," an opera
by Thomas Cabaniss directed by David
Herskovits in a production by Target
Margin Theater.
Doug
Han
PIANIST/ASSISTANT
CONDUCTOR/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE COACH
Pianist
Doug Han has just finished his tenure as
coach/répétiteur for the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra's Knowlton Festival,
under the artistic directorship of Maestro
Kent Nagano. In that capacity, he
has appeared in recital with the winners
of Plácido Domingo's Operalia
Competition, played masterclasses held
by artists such as June Anderson &
Jennifer Larmore, and prepared concert
performances of Bellini's Norma, La
Sonnambula, and I Capuleti e
i Montecchi. In June 2010, Mr.
Han joins the music staff of the
International Vocal Arts In-stitute-IVAI)
for their inaugural US edition, in
Blacksburg, Virginia.
Tony
Bellomy
ASSISTANT
CONDUCTOR/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE COACH
Pianist
Doug Han has just finished his tenure as
coach/répétiteur for the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra's Knowlton Festival,
under the artistic directorship of Maestro
Kent Nagano. In that capacity, he
has appeared in recital with the winners
of Plácido Domingo's Operalia
Competition, played masterclasses held
by artists such as June Anderson &
Jennifer Larmore, and prepared concert
performances of Bellini's Norma, La
Sonnambula, and I Capuleti e
i Montecchi. In June 2010, Mr.
Han joins the music staff of the
International Vocal Arts In-stitute-IVAI)
for their inaugural US edition, in
Blacksburg, Virginia.
PERFORMERS
(In
alphabetical order)
MARA ADLER
A
student of Elizabeth Cole, Ms. Adler
made her operatic debut as the Bird Seed
vendor in the San Francisco Opera’s
production of Louise
at age 14, to which she owes her love of
performing. Subsequent professional
roles performed include The Countess in La
Mere Coupable, Susanna in Le
Nozze di Figaro,
and Papagena in
The
Magic Flute.
She is a 2009 First Place winner
of the 5-towns
Competition. She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and
Teachers College-Columbia University.
She hopes one day soon to sing
professionally in her hometown of San
Francisco.
RACHEL
ARKY
Rachel
Arky, soprano, recently peformed the
roles of Cherubino, Susannah (scenes),
Fiordiligi (scenes), and La
Princesse. This summer, Ms. Arky
will be performing Donna Elvira with La
Musica Lirica in Italy, and this fall
will be covering Countess with Dell'arte
Opera Ensemble and the Park Avenue
Chamber Symphony. The New-York
born soprano was a 2010 winner in the
Liederkranz Voice Competition (Art Song
Division), a 2010 finalist for the LA
Opera's Young Artist Program, and 2nd
place winner in Manhattan School of
Music's Concerto Competition.
MELYNDA
DAVIS
Melynda
Davis has performed the title role in Suor
Angelica, Desdemona in Otello and
First Lady in Die
Zauberflöte.
Some other roles include Liu (Turandot), Donna Anna (Don
Giovanni), Miss Pinkerton (Old
Maid and the Thief) and Dido (Dido and Aeneas). She has performed with companies such as Boston
Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Opera
Providence, Longwood Opera, Opera del
West, Boston Opera Collaborative, Lowell
House Opera and the Boston Pops. Ms.
Davis won First Place in the RI NATS
Competition, Second
in Boston's Leontyne Price Vocal Arts
Competition and was a finalist in
Connecticut Opera Guild’s
Competition. She attended Sherrill
Milnes’ V.O.I.C.Experience
program. Ms. Davis studies with Maria
Spacagna and Joan Dornemann.
NORA
GRAHAM-SMITH
Nora
Graham-Smith, mezzo-soprano, is thrilled
to be performing Carmen with New York
Lyric Opera Theatre, having just
finished a season with Palm Beach Opera,
where she participated in their Young
Artist outreach operas, concerts, as
well as their main-stage season.
Nora is a graduate of the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music, and will next be
seen on stage with Florida Grand Opera
for the 2010-2011 season.
JANE
HOFFMAN
Soprano
Jane Hoffman has received great
attention as a musician of uncommon
versatility and expressivity. Originally
from Los Angeles, California, Miss
Hoffman made her New York performance
debut this winter with the New York
Lyric Opera Theatre in Die
Zauberflöte, and recently appeared
with the One World Symphony as the Cock
in Janacek’s The
Cunning Little
Vixen.
She recently received her Master of
Music from the Manhattan School of
Music, where she
performed the role of Daniel in the New
York Premiere of Handel’s
Susannah.
She has performed roles such as Olympia
(Tales
of Hoffmann), the Princess (L’Enfant
et les
Sortileges),
Paquette (Candide)
and the First Lady (Magic
Flute).
JAMESON JAMES
Jameson
James has sung with the Boston Lyric
Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Bronx Opera,
Atlantic Coast Opera Festival, DiCapo Opera, Amato Opera, Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Aspen
Opera Theater Center, New Texas
Festival, and Rome Opera Festival. He
received his Bachelor of Music from Rice
University’s Shepherd School of Music,
and a Master of Music from the New
England Conservatory in Boston.
In 2007, Jameson was a regional
finalist at the Metropolitan National
Council Regional Auditions and was
featured in the Susan Fomke film-“The
Audition.” Also,
he is a versatile singer and has created
roles for new operas.
He is a student of Arthur Levy
and is a certified teacher of the
Alexander Technique. In the Summer of
2009, he sang Rodolfo
with Atlantic Coast Opera of
Philadelphia.
KIRSTEN KANE
Mezzo-soprano
Kirsten Kane sings in the choruses of
the NY Philharmonic, the American
Symphony Orchestra, and the Little
Orchestra Society. A member of the
National Chorale and the NY Choral
Artists, she has sung as a chorister
under the batons of Leon Botstein, Will
Crutchfield, Mariss Jansons, Louis Langrée
and Lorin Maazel, and appeared with the
Mostly Mozart Festival and the Royal
Concertgebouw. Her solo repertoire has
included Charlotte (Werther),
Rosina, Meg (Falstaff),
Idamante, Cherubino, Romeo, Dorabella,
Siebel, Hansel, La
Badessa (Suor
Angelica), and Giovanna (Rigoletto),
as well as Haydn's Schöpfungsmesse
(NY Cantata Singers), Beethoven's Missa
Solemnis (Choral Symphony Society),
and Handel's Messiah
(Ensemble Sepia Orchestra). She
presented a recital of French song in
association with the Jewish Museum's
exhibit of Sarah Bernhardt.
ALAINA LOGEE
In
2007, Ms. Logee was one of 42 singers
selected for the Des Moines Metro Opera
James Collier Apprentice program under
the direction of Dr. Robert Larsen. In the Spring of 2008, Miss Logee covered Bianca in La
Rondine by Puccini at Sarasota Opera
where she was one of 24 apprentice
artists.
Ms. Logee has recently returned
from an extensive concert tour
throughout Tuscany in which she was a
featured soloist with the Siena Summer
Music Orchestra.
She is a returning
Artist-in-Residence with New York Lyric
Opera Theatre.
DANIELLE VITA
Soprano
Danielle Vita made her Carnegie Hall
Debut as a soloist in the world premiere
of William Anderson’s
The Death of Virgil with the New Jersey Composers Alliance.
She has also appeared with the Adelphi
Symphony Orchestra, Amici Opera, Queens
Opera Association, and New York Opera
Forum, among others. Opera credits
include Frasquita (Carmen),
Marzelline (Fidelio),
Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Sister Genovieffa
(Suor Angelica), and
Baby Doe (The
Ballad of Baby Doe). Danielle
sings this season as a Resident Artist
with Underworld Productions covering the
role of Amour in Rameau’s Pygmalion
and performing in an outreach series of
operas and concerts.
Saturday, June 5, 2010; 1:00PM;
Symphony Space
Artist-in-Residence
Concert
Saturday
June
5, 2010, 1:00PM
Symphony
Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia
New
York City
Music
Director: John Yaffé
Conductor
for Carmen:
David Rosenmeyer
Assistant
Conductor/AIR Coach/Pianist: Doug Han
Assistant
Conductor/AIR Coach: Tony Bellomy
Carmen
Act
I
BIZET:
“Quand je vous aimerai…Habanera”
(Carmen)
— Nora Graham-Smith —
“Parle-moi de ma mère!…”
(Micaëla/Don José)
— Rachel Arky & Jameson
James —
“Près
des remparts de Séville…”
(Carmen/ Don José)
— Nora Graham-Smith & Jameson
James —
Act
II
“Les tringles des sistres
tintaient…” (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès)
— Nora Graham-Smith, Jane Hoffman,
& Kirsten Kane —
Act
III
“Mêlons!Coupons!…”
(Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès)
— Nora Graham-Smith, Jane Hoffman,
& Kirsten Kane —
“C’est des contrebandiers…Je
dis…” (Micaëla)
— Rachel
Arky —
Act
IV
“Carmen, un bon conseil…” (Frasquita,
Mercédès,
Carmen, Don José)
— Jane Hoffman,Kirsten Kane,Nora
Graham-Smith,Jameson James —
“C’est toi? C’est moi!...”
(Carmen/
Don José)
— Nora Graham-Smith & Jameson
James —
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