| Baritone DARRELL BABIDGE is a
professor
of voice at Brigham Young University
.
. Director JOE BANNO . His feature film Sleeping and Waking is now on Netflix as a streaming video. The film has enjoyed much success in San Fransisco; Charlotte, NC; Roanoke, VA; Harrisonburg, VA; Washington, DC; and Columbia, MD. Joe will direct Mini-Operas and Opera Improv, with the DC-based contemporary-works company, Urban Arias at the The Shakespeare Theatre's Harman Center on February 29th. This April, he will once again collaborate with Urban Arias on their Contemporary Opera Double Bill, Before Breakfast by Pasatieri/Corsaro and The Filthy Habit by Hilliard/Boresi. Bass-baritone BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD sang Marcello in a concert performance of La Boheme with New York Lyric Opera. This Fall, he toured the USA with the Munich Symphony singing as the bass soloist in the Mozart Requiem. On December 16 and 17 he performed a holiday concert with Kenneth Kiesler and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. On May 28 and June 5 Benjamin will sing as soloist in Mozart Requiem with MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall. Mezzo Soprano LAURA BRIOLI performed Amneris in Verdi's Aida with Staatsoper Hamburg . She also performed the title role in Zanetto by Mascagni as well as Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica at Opera de Rennes. Conductor/Pianist RICHARD CARSEY is Music Director of
Skylight Opera in Milwaukee
. He was the Music Supervisor for the premiere of the new Off-Broadway
musical A Minister's Wife,
music
by Joshua Schmidt, lyrics by Jan Tranen at the
Mitzi Newhouse Theater as a part of
Lincoln Center Theatre. This production also
recorded a
cast album. This Fall, Richard returned
to Skylight Opera to conduct
the
World Premiere of The Rivals
by
Kirke Mechem.. He performed as pianist in a chamber
music concert in Wisconsin. This was followed by
The Music Man also at Skylight
Opera in November/December. This January he performs in "Beyond
the Ingenue" with Niffer Clarke at Skylight
Opera. Bass RICHARD CASSELL is the founder and artistic director of Capitol Heights Lyric Opera and is currently performing a series of concerts entitled Immortal Love Songs from Opera and Broadway. He was recently in London performing the role of the Shaman in S. Sucharatkul's Thai Opera, Mae Nak, at the Bloomsbury Theatre. March of 2012, Richard will play Polonius in a new opera, Hamlet by Carson Kievman at SoBe Arts Institute, South Beach, Florida. Soprano DANIELLA CARVALHO was
recently a finalist in the "Vox
Artis" International Music
Competition in Romania.
She also returned to Brazil for La Boheme with
Orchestra Sinfonica de Sergipe and
peformed
a concert at the Municipal Theater of
Niterol. On January 16 she performs a solo recital at Weill Hall in New York City. Baritone RALPH CATO recently made his
debut with Long Beach Opera as
Aye in Akhnaten by Phillip
Glass. Tenor BRETT COLBY performed Goro in Madama
Butterfly
at the Algonquin Playhouse
in NJ. This February, Brett returns to the role of Spoleta in Tosca with Opera New Jersey. Tenor MARTY COYLE spent the summer at Opera Theatre Saint Louis. He
recently sang the role of Ferrando from Cosi fan tutte in Harwood
Management's first ever Opera Reads
at Shetler Studios in
Manhattan. He is currently covering the role of Dorvil in Rossini's La Scala di Seta at Juilliard. This May, Marty will make his
debut with Toledo Opera in
Ohio, singing Pang in Turandot.
Baritone LAWRENCE CRAIG sang an Opera Gala in the Phonecia Festival of the Voice in New York. On November 13 he sang as soloist in Robert Ray's Gospel Mass with Mid-America at Carnegie Hall. He recently sang the role of Guglielmo from Cosi fan tutte in Harwood Management's first ever Opera Reads at Shetler Studios in Manhattan. Bass-Baritone CARL DUPONT recently returned to New York after a run of One Touch of Venus with Oper Leipzig in Germany. On August 9th, he sang in a benefit concert to raise money for a new opera, The Three Astronauts, an opera-musical under development by Family Opera Initiative. He recently sang the role of Don Alfonso from Cosi fan tutte in Harwood Management's first ever Opera Reads. Carl will perform the title role of Don Giovanni with Capitol Heights Lyric Opera on February 19th at Secaucus Public Library in New Jersey and March 3rd at Riverside Library in Manhattan, Director JONATHAN EATON is artistic and general manager of
Pittsburgh Opera Theater. He returned to Opera
Company
of Philadelphia to direct his own production of
Tosca Conductor JEFFREY ECKSTEIN's upcoming
performances include a gala concert at
Guatemala National Theater on November 30 with singers from the
Metropolitan Opera. He
will then return to Austin, Texas to conduct The
Nutcracker with Austin Ballet
and Symphony
Orchestra December 1st through 23rd. Director JONATHAN FIELD directed Mozart's
La Clemenza di Tito at Oberlin
Conservartory
of Music in March. This summer he directed
La fille du Regiment at the Sugar
Creek Festival. He directed
La Boheme at Operaissimo
in August and directed Madama
Butterfly at Solon Arts Center,
with performances on October 2nd and 8th at the Valvetta
Bros. Floor Show Theater. This November he will direct Bolcom's A Wedding at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Conductor LAURENCE GILGORE holds the titles of General Director and Principal Conductor for Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra. Tenor DAVID GUZMAN sang the world premiere of To Cross the Face of the Moon with Houston Grand Opera. He also
played classical guitar in this production. . In
September, David traveled to the Soprano SUZAN HANSON
performed at Long Beach Opera to
sing the role of Vaya in The Cherry
Town by Shostakovich and sang the soprano role in
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field in June. From November 12th
through 27th Suzan
will perform La Voix Humaine
at Opera San Jose. This March, Suzan
will perform in a piece that she herself wrote and produced,
entitled Smoke and
Mirrors/Althemy of Desire. with performances at El
Camino College in Torrance, CA. Soprano LORI CELESTE HICKS performed as soprano soloist with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra. This November, Lori sang in Robert Ray's Gospel Mass with MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall. Bass ERIC JOHNSON is head of the opera department at Syracuse University. He recently sang as bass soloist for the Mozart Requiem with members of the Utica Symphony for a memorial performance on 9/11. This March he will sing as bass soloist for Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass with the Oneida Chorale. Pianist CRAIG KETTER played Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 at with Ida K. Lang Recital Hall at Hunter College with Opera Dolce. Craig provided accompaniment for Harwood Management's Opera Reads in October. Soprano EUN HEE KIM recently made her debut with Sol Opera Company in Korea as Liu in Turandot. She performed in an opera gala with Sol Opera, where she also won an Artist of the Year Award. Kim also is on the voice faculty at Shenandoah University where she recently performed her own recital. We welcome tenor KYLE ERDOS KNAPP to the roster. Kyle spent the summer at Opera Theatre Saint Louis where he covered Tonio in The Daughter of the Regiment. He returned to Saint Louis this October to workshop a new jazz opera and to perform in their Outreach Program. Mr. Knapp recently won the Metropolitan National Council Auditions in St. Louis. He performed again with Opera Theatre Saint Louis December, giving two recitals a day as an Artist in Residence. Kyle returns to sing Toby in Sweeney Todd at Opera Theatre Saint Louis this summer. Conductor DANIEL LIPTON recently led performances of Verdi's La Traviata with Opera de Columbia, followed by Trovatore with Opera de Quebec. Lipton returned to Opera de Quebec to lead performances of Eugene Onegin. Mezzo-Soprano VALERIE MACCARTHY has a jewelry line, available at www.valeriemaccarthy.com. Valerie recently performed Mozart Vespers at Avery Fisher Hall with Mid-America Productions, with an encore performance at Alice Tully Hall. Director JAMIBETH MARGOLIS was director of the musical Warsaw in Voorhees NJ, followed by an engagement with Boheme Opera's Tosca in April. In June, she directed in Martin Halpern's World Premieres of The Dwarf Trees and Lock of Hair at the New York New Church. She directed Halpern's latest piece, Mrs. Middleman's Descent, with performances at the New York New Church this October. She will direct two more operas by Halpern in February, entitled, The Lower Drawer and Constancy. Soprano ANTONI MENDEZONA made her debut as Dew Fairy/Sandman in Hansel and Gretel with Boheme Opera NJ on December 11. She followed this with a performance of Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Herb Dimmock and The Herford Choral Society in Maryland. January 16th, Antoni will be the soprano soloist in a concert of The Music of Karl Jenkins at Carnegie Hall, which will include a new work, The Peacemakers, by Jenkins. This concert is sponsored by DCINY. Conductor NIELS MUUS is Music Director of Festival Steyr in Austria. He is also conductor for the Morphing Chamber Orchestra in Vienna. Niels recently conducted concerts with Salute to Vienna at Edmonton, Alberta on January 1st and at Calgary, Alberta on January 2nd. Conductor PAUL NADLER returns to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera this 2011/12 season. Soprano ALISA PETERSON spent November with the Los Angeles Opera education program, singing Minnie in The Prospector. She recently sang the Vivaldi Gloria in the Festival of the Voice in Phonecia, NY. Mezzo-soprano MARGARET PETERSON recently sang the Vivaldi Gloria and an Opera Gala in the Festival of the Voice Italian soprano CRISTINA PIPERNO recently sang Turandot at the 7th Busan International Festival in Korea. She also performed as soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Orvieto Cathedral in Italy. Mezzo Soprano JESSICA RENFRO performed a world premier of
Songs of Faith by Gweneth Walker with
Coro Lirico of New Jersey. On December 9 and 11 she made her
debut as Hansel in Hansel and
Gretel with Boheme Opera NJ. Soprano MARCY RICHARDSON recently performed a selection of
"Seconda Donna" Arias from operas by Handel in the
2011 Early Mucis America/Naxos Recording Competition at the
Gershwin Hotel. She also performed Diana in
La Calisto with Verticle
Players Reperatory. Marcy recently sang songs by Joseph Thalken at a New York Festival of Songs concert
with renowned pianist Steven Blier. Soprano MICHELE SEXTON performed a concert at Spring Lake Tennis Club in New Jersey. She also sang an opera gala with Boheme Opera in NJ. Mezzo-Soprano ERIN SMITH returns to Washington Opera to cover Charlotte in Werther this Fall Bass-baritone SAM SMITH sang Ramphis in a concert version of Aida with Coro Lirico in New Jersey. This February, Sam sings The Duke of Verona in Romeo et Juliet with Dayton Opera. Counter-tenor TYLER WAYNE SMITH recently toured as Mary Sunshine as part of the Chicago National Tour this May and June. He made his Broadway debut as Mary Sunshine in Chicago at the Ambassador Theater and played Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro in Bryant Park with Operamission Soprano ERIN STEWART recently performed Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Gretna Theatre in Pennsylvania. On January 12 she returns to Carnegie Hall for a concert of the music of Georgia Shrieve Conductor ERIC TOWNELL is currently Music Director of the Rochester Choral Society. He recently hosted the Chorus Management Institute in Rochester, in collaboration wuth the Greater Rochester Choral Consortium. He led the Rochester Oratorio Society Orchestra in the Crowning Glory Concert at Hochstein Performance Hall. On December 9 he leads a concert of Brass, Bells, and candlelight wirh the ROS in Rochester. Conductor JASON TRAMM recently joined the Seton Hall
University
as an adjunct faculty member, where he conducts the choir. On November
19th, Jason conducted the New York
Area All State Orchestra in Rockland County, NY. Tenor JONATHAN WINELL spent last summer at Central
City Opera, where he sang Le Journaliste in Les Mamelles de Tiresias and Leon
in Signor Deluso. He
will perform in Tchaikovsky's Iolanthe in December at Dicapo Opera. On January 29 he
will make his debut with Opera Orchestra of NY as Baroncelli in
Wagner's Rienzi. Jonathan
will then be in Europe and living in Berlin from February through March
20th.
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