Undergraduate Opera Workshop Showcase
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Join the Opera Department for a presentation of scenes by the students of the Opera Scenes Workshop. Singers will portray their vocal, acting and stage performance training in a variety of scenes from lesser known to iconic operas. Opera Scenes Workshops are curated by the department’s faculty.
Program
Dana Sadava, conductor
Mathews and Sergey Khalikulov, stage directors
John Wilson, piano
Curt Pajer, Kyle Naig, Hanna Shin, John Wilson, Dana Sadava, musical preparation
Illia Campbell, lighting designer
Jacques Offenbach: THE GRAND DUCHESS OF GEROLSTEIN
Act II Ensemble “At last the war is really over...”
Sarah Harris, Iza
Aaliyah Capili, Olga
Clara Abrahams, Amélie
Anna Carney, Charlotte
Garrett Wilmoth, Nepomuc
Solomon Shumate, Usher #1
Charles McGregor, Usher #2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Act I Duet “Cinque…dieci…venti…”
Charles McGregor, Figaro
Aaliyah Capili, Susanna
W. A Mozart: DON GIOVANNI
Act I Duet “Alfin siam liberati…Là ci darem la mano…”
Sarah Harris, Zerlina
Solomon Shumate, Don Giovanni
Act I Recit and Aria “Fermati scellerato…Ah fuggi il traditor”
Anna Carney, Donna Elvira
Sarah Harris, Zerlina
Solomon Shumate, Don Giovanni
W. A Mozart: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Act I Trio “Susanna, tu mi sembri...Cosa sento!”
Hope Nelson, Cherubino
Clara Abrahams, Susanna
Garrett Wilmoth, Basilio
Charles McGregor, Count
J. Offenbach: ORPHÉE AUX ENFERS
Act II Duet “Il m’a semblé sur mon épaule"
Sarah Harris, Eurydice
Solomon Shumate, Jupiter
Engelbert Humperdinck: HÄNSEL AND GRETEL
Act II Aria and Duet “Wo bin ich?...”
Clara Abrahams, Gretel
Hope Nelson, Hänsel
Leonard Bernstein: CANDIDE
Act I Duet “You were dead, you know”
Aaliyah Capili, Cunegonde
Garrett Wilmoth, Candide
L. Bernstein (Arr. Mac Huff): WEST SIDE STORY
Act II Ensemble “Somewhere”
Clara Abrahams, Solo
Tutti, Chorus
About SFCM’s Opera and Musical Theatre Program
The SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre program draws exceptionally talented young singers from around the world and provides them with advanced training in vocal style, acting, stage movement, and other essentials of stagecraft. Each year, SFCM produces four fully staged opera and musical theatre productions with full or chamber orchestra. Recent fully staged operas have included L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Mansfield Park, Postcard from Morocco, The Rake’s Progress, Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and former faculty composer Conrad Susa’s Transformations. SFCM has hosted workshops for in-development opera projects such as Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and Jake Heggie’s Great Scott.
In addition to fully staged productions, a number of scenes, programs, and other performances with piano accompaniment are presented each year. Opera students also have an opportunity to receive coaching from San Francisco Opera music staff, and to participate in productions tailored for school-age audiences in collaboration with San Francisco Opera’s Education Department.
SFCM’s Musical Theatre Workshop provides ensemble experience to singer/actors with an emphasis on American musical theatre, examining one or more musical theatre composers and their works through rehearsals and performance. Recent performances include such works as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, She Loves Me, Company, Little Women, Urinetown, and The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!).
Visiting artists have included Ryan Taylor (General Director, Minnesota Opera), Roy Rallo (Stage Director, San Francisco Opera), David Maier (Fight Director, San Francisco Opera), Barbara Scott (Improvisation Technique), Matt Chapman (Laban Technique), and Jose Luis Moscovich (General Director, West Bay Opera).
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