Undergraduate 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
Dana Sadava & Chih-Yao Chang, conductors
Heather Mathews & Sergey Khalikulov, stage directors
Hanna Shin & John Wilson, pianists
Curt Pajer, Dana Sadava, Hanna Shin, John Wilson, musical preparation
Franz Lehár: “Now ladies and gentlemen…We are alone”
from The Merry Widow
Solomon Shumate, St. Brioche
Clara Abrahams, Natalie
Sheng Feng Chan, Camille
Tutti, chorus
Léo Delibes: “Viens, Mallika…Sous le dôme épais”
from Lakmé
|Aaliyah Capili, Lakmé
Jaimie Langner, Mallika
Claudio Monteverdi: “Sento un certo non so che”
from L’incoronazione di Poppea
Noelani Kawaihoa, Valletto
Clara Abrahams, Damigella
Gioachino Rossini: “Una voce poco fa…”
from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Jaimie Langner, Rosina
Bedřich Smetana: “Ah, my darling…”
from The Bartered Bride
Anna Carney, Marie
Clara Abrahams, Jeník
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Aprite, presto, aprite”
from Le nozze di Figaro
Garrett Wilmoth, Susanna
Jana Justus, Cherubino
W. A. Mozart: “Cosa mi narri…Sull’aria”
from Le nozze di Figaro
Anna Carney, Countess
Mumtozbegim Ochilova, Susanna
W. A. Mozart: "Tutto é disposto…Aprite un po ‘quegli occhi…”
from Le nozze di Figaro
Charles McGregor, Figaro
W. A. Mozart: “Giunse alfin il momento…Deh vieni, non tardar”
from Le nozze di Figaro
Courtney Lawrence, Susanna
Arthur Sullivan: “Ah leave me not to pine”
from The Pirates of Penzance
Sarah Harris, Mabel
Garrett Wilmoth, Frederic
W. A. Mozart: “Tutto é tranquillo e placido…”
from Le nozze di Figaro
Charles McGregor, Figaro
Courtney Lawrence, Susanna
Michael Ching: “I could just die”
from Speed Dating Tonight
Mumtozbegim Ochilova, Another Dater
M. Ching: “I like to dance”
from Speed Dating Tonight
Jana Justus, Dater #4
M. Ching: “Have you ever thought about the evolution of the toaster?”
from Speed Dating Tonight
Garrett Wilmoth, Dater #52
Noelani Kawaihoa, Other Dater
M. Ching: "I’ve been lurking”
from Speed Dating Tonight
Sarah Harris, Dater #5
M. Ching: “Order Up”
from Speed Dating Tonight
Solomon Shumate, Bartender
Jana Justus, Waitress
Giuseppe Verdi: “Libiamo, libiamo ne’ lieti calici…”
from La Traviata
Sheng Feng Chan, Alfredo
Mumtozbegim Ochilova, Clara Abrahams, Anna Carney, Aaliyah Capili, Sarah Harris, Violette
Garrett Wilmoth, Gastone
Solomon Shumate, Barone
Charles McGregor, Dottore
Tutti, chorus
Departments
Voice / Opera Studies
Faculty
Catherine Cook
Rhoslyn Jones
Lester Lynch
Susanne Mentzer
César Ulloa
Matthew Worth
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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