From the Mississippi Opera Board of Directors President | 3 From the General/Artistic Director | 5 Mississippi Opera Board of Directors 2019-2020 | 7 Past Presidents Board of Directors | 7 Satchmo! | 11 Stage Stars of Tomorrow | 13 Shattering the Glass | 15 Amahl and the Night Visitors | 17 Mr. Showmanship | 19 My Funny Valentine | 20 Take 5 | 21 Roméo et Juliette | 23 Contributors | 24 Mississippi Opera Association Diamond Jubilee Society | 25 Mississippi Opera Guild Past Presidents | 26 ADVERTISING Onstage Publications 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail:
[email protected] www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of OnStage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2019. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT elcome to our 74th Mississippi Opera Wseason. We have ten events scheduled, with a couple more pending, to be thrown in for good measure. The season starts with a bang in August with An Evening in St. Petersburg and ends with Charles Gounod’s classic Romeo and Juliette. In the middle we have Satchmo: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong, we have our national vocal competition winners’ concert Stage Stars of Tomorrow, we have Screaming, Screeching and Caterwauling (obviously named by someone not an opera fan). In December we have our annual Christmas event Amahl and the Night Visitors, followed shortly thereafter by our New Year’s Day Viennese Opera Brunch. Springtime brings us Mr.