Opera Scenes Workshop
Artistic Staff
Dana Sadava and Curt Pajer, conductors
Heather Mathews, Rhoslyn Jones, and Sergey Khalikulov, stage directors
Taylor Chan and Connor Buckley, pianists
Musical Preparation by Taylor Chan, Curt Pajer, and Dana Sadava
PROGRAM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden (Снегурочка)
Act IV - "Scene with Spring; Snow Maiden's Melting Scene"
(“Родимая в слезах тоски и горя зовёт тебя …Великий царь! Спроси меня сто раз”)
Snow Maiden: Natalia Hulse
Spring: MonaLisa Pomarleanu
Tsar: Nathan Bryon
Mizgir: Joseph Calzada
Violin: Aleksi Zaretsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Act III - Gremin's Aria “Любви все возрасты покорны”
Gremin: Joe Hack
Pietro Mascagni: Zanetto
"Non andar da Silvia ... Partirò”
Silvia: Valeria Estrada
Zanetto: Dyanna Bohorques
Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Act III Aria - "Donde lieta"
Mimì: Monica Rose Slater
Gaetano Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Act I Duet - "Lallarallara ... Esulti pur la barbara"
Adina: Jasmine Sahd
Nemorino: Caleb Alexander
George Frideric Handel: Alcina
Act III Trio - "Le lusinghe, l'inganni ... Non è amor, né gelosia”
Alcina: Erica Thelen
Bradamante: Cambria Metzinger
Ruggiero: Alyssa Vieau
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Act II Duet - "Aprite, presto, aprite!"
Susanna: Jenna Toler
Cherubino: Christy Xu
Kurt Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper
Act II Duet - "Eifersuchtsduett"
Lucy: Alina Flatscher
Polly: Cassi Irene Gardner
Gian Carlo Menotti: The Old Maid and the Thief
Scene One - "Good Day, Miss Pinkerton"
Miss Todd: Cambria Metzinger
Miss Pinkerton: Hailey Gutowski
Laetitia: Emili Rice
Léo Delibes: Lakmé
Act I Duet - "Viens, Mallika ... Sous le dôme épais”
Lakmé: Catherine Durcan
Mallika: Sadye Sobel
Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking
Act II Duet - "All alone in his cell..."
Sister Helen: Dyanna Bohorques
Sister Rose: Erica Thelen
Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Act I Aria - "Eccomi in lieta vesta ... Oh! Quante volte"
Giulietta: Catherine Durcan
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Act II Scene
Gretel: Camryn Finn
Hansel: Leah Finn
Sandman: Alyssa Vieau
Dew Fairy: Emili Rice
Richard Strauss: Arabella
Act III Aria - "Das war sehr gut, Mandryka"
Arabella: Hailey Gutowski
Act I Duet - "Aber der Richtige"
Arabella: Nadjalie Santos
Zdenka: Jenna Toler
Departments
Opera and Musical Theatre Program
Voice
Faculty
Sergey Khalikulov
Heather Mathews
Curt Pajer
Dana Sadava
Rhoslyn Jones
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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