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: Act I Trio: “The key Flora...”
from The Enchanted Pig
Syona Ayyankeril, Mab
Angelina Yi, Dot
Christy Xu, Flora
Gaetano Donizetti: Act I Aria: “Chacun le sait”
from La fille du régiment
Madison Barton-Holloway, Marie
JJ Trimble, Tonio
Aaron Hong, Sulpice
Tutti, Choer
Jules Massenet: Act I Duet: “Aimer! Aimer! Je puis aimer librement devant tous!”
from Le Cid
Lena Goldstein, Chimène
Vuyiswa Sigadi, L’infante
Kurt Weill: Act I Duet: “We’ll go away together”
from Street Scene
Macy Mullins, Rose
JJ Trimble, Sam
Gian Carlo Menotti: Scene I: “Good Day, Miss Pinkerton”
from The Old Maid and the Thief
Carmen Voskuhl, Miss Todd
Angelina Yi, Miss Pinkerton
Madison Barton-Holloway, Laeticia
Aaron Hong, Bob
Benjamin Britten: Act I Aria: “How beautiful it is...”
from The Turn of the Screw
Cristina Villalobos, Governess
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Act I Quintet: “Hm! Hm! Hm!”
from Die Zauberflöte
Madison Barton-Holloway, Erste Dame
Melanie Athans, Zweite Dame
Christy Xu, Dritte Dame
Aaron Hong, Papageno
JJ Trimble, Tamino
B. Britten: Act II Duet: “She is here, here in my own room”
from The Turn of the Screw
Cristina Villalobos, Governess
Mila Zhou, Miss Jessel
Dominick Argento: Act I Trio: “Is that a hat box?”
from Postcard from Morocco
Elizabeth Gaitan, Lady with a Hand Mirror
Melanie Athans, Lady with a Cake Box
Carmen Voskuhl, Lady with a Hat Box
Jacques Offenbach: Act II Aria: “Elle a fui, la tourterelle.”
from Les contes d’Hoffman
Lena Goldstein, Antonia
B. Britten: Act II Quartet: “From the gutter…”
from Peter Grimes
Mila Zhou, Ellen Orford
Elizabeth Gaitan, Niece 1
Macy Mullins, Niece 2
Carmen Voskuhl, Auntie
G. Donizetti: Act III Trio: “Tous les trois réunis”
from La fille du régiment
Syona Ayyankeril, Marie
JJ Trimble, Tonio
Aaron Hong, Sulpice
J. Offenbach: Act III Duet: “Belle nuit…”
from Les contes d’Hoffman
Vuyiswa Sigada, Giulietta
Carmen Voskuhl, Nicklausse
Tutti, Choer
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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