Opera Artist Diploma Showcase
Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study.
Program
Robert Mollicone, Music Director and Pianist
Heather Mathews, Stage Director
Gaetano Donizetti:“Povero Ernesto…Cercherò lontana terra”
from Don Pasquale, Act II
Sid Chand, Ernesto
Charles Gounod: “Dieu! Quel frisson court dans mes veines… Amour, ranime mon courage”
from Rome et Juliette, Act IV
Kaya Giroux, Juliette
Gabriel Fauré: Poème d’un jour, Op. 21
III. Adieu
Claudia de Lourdes Díaz, soprano
Francis Poulenc: “Acte 2 Tableau 3”
from Dialogues des Carmelites
Kaya Giroux, Blanche de la Force
Claudia de Lourdes Díaz, Mere Marie
Sid Chan, Chevalier de la Force
F. Poulenc: “Acte 3 Tableau 3”
from Dialogues des Carmelites
Claudia de Lourdes Díaz, La Prieure
Richard Strauss: Vier Lieder, Op. 27
IV. Morgen!
Kaya Giroux, soprano
Henri Duparc: Le manoir de Rosemonde
Sid Chand, tenor
C. Gounod: “Va, je t’ai pardonné…Nuit d’hyménée”
from Romeo et Juliette, Act IV
Sid Chand, Romeo
Kaya Giroux, Juliette
Daniel Catán: “Que bueno que llegó! Nos retrasaba...Florencia Grimaldi...¡No solo soy mi nombre!”
from Florencia en el Amazonas
Kaya Giroux, Rosalba
Claudia de Lourdes Díaz, Florencia Grimaldi
Opera and Musical Theatre Program
Voice
Heather Mathews
Dana Sadava
Rhoslyn Jones
Susanne Mentzer
César Ulloa
Robert Mollicone
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).
About SFCM’s Voice Department
Find your voice—and your community. A tight-knit group, voice students work closely with all-star faculty who have performed at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Paris Opera, Milan’s La Scala, and many others. As a student at SFCM, you'll have the opportunity to regularly attend dress rehearsals at the San Francisco Opera and take advantage of performance opportunities around the Bay Area.
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