Opera Workshop Performance
Opera
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
Jonathan Dove: The Enchanted Pig
Act I Trio
"The key flora..."
Mab: Syona Ayyankeril
Dot: Angelina Yi
Flora: Christy Xu
Gaetano Donizetti: La Fille Du Régiment
Act I Aria
"Chacun le sait"
Marie: Madison Barton-Holloway
Tonio: JJ Trimble
Sulpice: Aaron Hong
Choer: Tutti
Jules Massenet: Le Cid
Act I Duet
"Aimer! Aimer! Je puis aimer librement devant tous!"
Chimène: Lena Goldstein
L'infante: Vuyiswa Sigadi
Kurt Weill: Street Scene
Act I Duet
"We'll go away together"
Rose: Macy Mullins
Sam: JJ Trimble
Gian Carlo Menotti: The Old Maid and The Thief
Scene I
"Good Day, Miss Pinkerton"
Miss Todd: Carmen Voskuhl
Miss Pinkerton: Angelina Yi
Laetitia: Madison Barton-Holloway
Bob: Aaron Hong
Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Act I Aria
"How beautiful it is..."
Governess: Cristina Villalobos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Act I Quintet
"Hm! Hm! Hm!"
Erste Dame: Madison Barton-Holloway
Zweite Dame: Melanie Athans
Dritte Dame: Christy Xu
Papageno: Aaron Hong
Tamino: JJ Trimble
Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Act II Duet
"She is here, here in my own room"
Governess: Cristina Villalobos
Miss Jessel: Mila Zhou
Dominick Argento: Postcard from Morocco
Act I Trio
"Is that a hat box?"
Lady with a Hand Mirror: Elizabeth Gaitan
Lady with a Cake Box: Melanie Athans
Lady with a Hat Box: Carmen Voskuhl
Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffmann
Act II Aria
"Elle a fui, la tourterelle"
Antonia: Lena Goldstein
Britten: Peter Grimes
Act II Quartet
"From the gutter..."
Ellen Orford: Mila Zhou
Niece 1: Elizabeth Gaitan
Niece 2: Macy Mullins
Auntie: Carmen Voskuhl
Donizetti: La Fille Du Régiment
Act III Trio
"Tou les trois réunis"
Marie: Syona Ayyankeril
Tonio: JJ Trimble
Sulpice: Aaron Hong
Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffmann
Act III Duet
"Belle nuit..."
Giulietta: Vuyiswa Sigadi
Nicklausse: Carmen Voskuhl
Choer: Tutti
Departments
Opera and Musical Theatre
Faculty
Sergey Khalikulov
Heather Mathews
Curt Pajer
Dana Sadava
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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