Program:

Jonathan Dove
Act One Duet
“Look! Up there...”
     from Flight 
Controller: Emily Finkelstein
Refugee: Luke Elmer

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Act Three Recitative and Aria
“Ecco in nuevo tormentor… Che farò senza Euridice”
     from Orfeo ed Euridice
Euridice: Allegra Kelly
Orfeo: Luke Elmer

Giuseppe Verdi
Act One Quartet
“Alice ... Meg!”
     from Falstaff
Alice Ford: Alissa Goretsky
Nannetta: Carina Kahane
Meg Page: Alexa Rosenberg
Dame Quickly: Alaska Coombes

Dominick Argento
Act One Trio
“Is that a hat box?”
     from Postcard from Morocco
Lady with a Hand Mirror: Emily Finkelstein
Lady with a Cake Box: Abby Bush
Lady with a Hat Box: Michelle Skylar

Benjamin Britten
Act One Scene
“Ill met by moonlight”
     from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Titania: Cassie Dixon
Oberon: Kyle Tingzon

Vincenzo Bellini
Act One Recitative and Duet
“Ah, mia Giulietta… Si, fuggire!”
     from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Giulietta: Mackenzie Jacquemin
Romeo: Alexa Rosenberg

Benjamin Britten
Act Two Duet
“She is here, here in my own room!”
     from The Turn of the Screw
Governess: Mackenzie Jacquemin
Miss Jessel: Cassie Dixon

Benjamin Britten
Act Two Quartet
“From the gutter”
     from Peter Grimes
Niece 1: Emily Finkelstein
Niece 2: Jasmine Sahd
Ellen Orford: Kate Juliana
Auntie: Kyle Tingzon

Mark Adamo
Selections from Little Women
“Joy beyond measure…”
“Barristers, it’s quarterpast”
Amy: Natalie Harris
Beth: Allegra Kelly
Meg: Michelle Skylar
Jo: Alaska Coombes

Vincenzo Bellini
Act Two Recitative and Tomb Scene Duet
“Tu sola, o mia Giulietta…”
     from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Giulietta: Carina Kahane
Romeo: Alexa Rosenberg

Jonathan Dove
Selections from Flight
“Down you go”
“Dawn, still darkness”
Controller: Cassie Dixon
Refugee: Kyle Tingzon

Gaetano Donizetti
Act One Duet
“Inès, mia dolce suora… Di pace a noi bell’iride”
     from Maria Padilla
Maria Padilla: Alissa Goretsky
Ines: Abby Bush

Hector Berlioz
Act Two Trio
“Je vais, d’un coeur aimant”
     from Béatrice and Bénédict
Hero: Jasmine Sahd
Béatrice: Kate Juliana
Ursule: Michelle Skylar

Richard Strauss
Act Two Duet
“Mir is die Ehre widerfahren”
     from Der Rosenkavalier
Sophie: Natalie Harris
Octavian: Alexa Rosenberg

Jonathan Dove
Final Scene
“A frozen man falling like a frozen star”
     from Flight
Controller: Emily Finkelstein
Refugee: Luke Elmer

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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