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
Carlisle Floyd: “Ain’t It a Pretty Night” from Susannah
Kaya Giroux, Susannah
Otto Nicolai: “Nun eilt herbei” from Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Mila Zhou, Frau Fluth
Antonín Dvořák: “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka
Grace Sawyko, Rusalka
Franz Lehár: “Vilja’s Lied” from Die Lustige Witwe
Lintong Tao, Hanna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Padre, germani, addio” from Idomeneo
Shuke Liu, Ilia
John Adams: “Am I In Your Light” from Doctor Atomic
Natalie Sweeney, Kitty Oppenheimer
Charles Gounod: “Je veux vivre” from Roméo et Juliette
Lena Goldstein, Juliette
Franz Lehár: “Dein is mein ganzes Hertz” from Das Land des Lächelns
Max Ary, Prince
C. Gounod: “Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle” from Roméo et Juliette
Christy Xu, Stephano
Gaetano Donizetti: “Prendi, per me sei libero” from L’elisir D’amore
Macy Mullins, Adina
Giacomo Puccini: “Donde lieta” from La a Bohème
Arden Hearne, Mimi
Opera and Musical Theatre
Heather Mathews
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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