Opera Workshop Showcase
Opera
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: COSI FAN TUTTE
Act II Scene, Aria, and Duet
“Andate-là, che siete due bizzarre raggaze… Una donna quindici anni… Prenderò quel brunettino…”
Arden Hearne, Fiordiligi
Cambria Metzinger, Dorabella
Cristina Villalobos, Despina
Nicolas Isouard: CENDRILLON
Act I Duet
“Ah, quel plaisir”
Cora-Melin Mikat, Thisbe
Madison Barton-Holloway, Clorinde
Georges Bizet: CARMEN
Act I Chorus
“Au secours…”
Tutti, Factory Workers
Tony DeLousia, Zuniga
Dave Maier, Guest Faculty Director
Richard Strauss: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
Act II Trio and Aria
“Schläft sie...wo war ich?”
Erica Thelen, Ariadne
Emili Rice, Najade
Christy Xu, Dryade
Lena Goldstein, Echo
Benjamin Britten: THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Act II Duet
“She is here, here in my own room”
Rianne Lau, Governess
Christy Xu, Miss Jessel
B. Britten: PETER GRIMES
Act II Quartet
“From the gutter…”
Camryn Finn, Niece 1
Syona Ayyankeril, Niece 2
Erica Thelen, Ellen Orford
Leora Gilgur, Auntie
Kirke Mechem: TARTUFFE
Act II Duet
“Where’s your spirit, girl?...No more, pale moon…”
Lena Goldstein, Dorine
Arden Hearne, Marianne
Osvaldo Golijov: AINADAMAR
Act III Trio
“Doy mi sangre…”
Emili Rice, Margarita
Addy Geenen, Nuria
Cambria Metzinger, Lorca
W. A Mozart: IDOMENEO
Act I Aria
“Quando, avran, fine omai…Padre, germani, addio!”
Larissa Kent, Ilia
W. A Mozart: MITRIDATE, RE DI PONTO
Act II Duet
“Sifare, per pietà…Se viver non degg’io…”
Catherine Durcan, Sifare
Cora-Melin Mikat, Aspasia
R. Strauss: DER ROSENKAVALIER
Act II Duet
The Presentation of the Rose - “Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren…”
Cambria Metzinger, Octavian
Morgan Wolfe, Sofie
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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