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TEACHING and EDUCATION

FRANCES FENTON (LYTTON) is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and has a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Houston (also summa cum laude). Before coming to HCC, she also taught at the Musikschule Offenbach while performing. She became a full-time faculty member in 2013 and has taught the following courses at HCC:

Ear Training and Sight-Singing I & II English Diction (Special topics) French Diction German Diction Music Appreciation Music Fundamentals Class Piano I Piano I – Private Lessons Special Topics Ensemble Voice Class for Non-Majors Voice – All Levels

BIOGRAPHY

FRANCES FENTON, a native of Texas, has sung leading and featured roles with the Zürich Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, Opera Mobile (UK, Zürich), the San Antonio Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Central City Colorado Opera, and Opera Classics of New Jersey, among others.

A much-requested soloist in concert and oratorio performances, she has performed with orchestras throughout the world, including the Akademisches Orchester (Zürich), the Rundfunkorchester des Hessischen Rundfunks (Frankfurt), the Südwestrundfunkorchester (Baden-Baden & Karlsruhe), the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra do Estado do São Paulo, the Pilsener Jugendorchester, the Thalwil Kammerorchester, the Houston Chamber Orchestra, the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra (Texas and Mexico), and the Bay Area Chorus and Orchestra.

Miss FENTON has been televised in four continents, singing as a featured artist on Hessischer Rundfunk 3 Germany, on Südwestrundfunk Germany, on TRT International broadcast from Turkey, on Rede Televisão Cultura Brazil, on AFN Europe, and on "Voice of America: Radio Broadcasts to Europe and South America". She has also appeared on Public Broadcasting in the U.S., as well as KUHT in Texas. All her most recent appearances have been either televised live or recorded for later broadcasts and archives. www.francesfenton.com

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As a recitalist, Miss FENTON's appearances include a Liederabend at the Alte Oper in celebration of the 1200th Birthday of the City of Frankfurt, where she was the only American invited to perform. Miss FENTON has also performed in several chamber music concerts at the Frankfurt Opera, and at Amerika Haus, where she is included in a book listing distinguished performers from its 50-year history. Miss FENTON performed in recital at the Palmengarten. In one of her first engagements, Miss FENTON was asked to inaugurate the Central City Opera Recital Series. Recently, she has also been broadcast live from the Moores Opera House and the Houston Public Library. Miss FENTON has sung benefit concerts for the National and University Library of Sarajevo and for the victims of the Turkish earthquake, sponsored by UNICEF, in Vienna and Frankfurt. With a live television performance, Miss FENTON sang the first concert in the year-long celebration of the First German Parliament (1848) in the Paulskirche, at the invitation of the Chancellor of Germany.

Miss FENTON has sung world premiere performances of "Sweeney Agonistes" by John Cook and "The Face on the Barroom Floor" by Henry Mollicone. She is a singer of choice of the American composers John David Earnest and Richard Hundley and has sung American premiers of chamber works by Donald Joyce and Sanchie Bobrow.

Miss FENTON's appearances have taken her to Amsterdam, Ankara, Denver, Glasgow, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janiero, Vienna, Sao Paulo, and many major cities throughout Germany. In one year, she sang three different Liederabends in Frankfurt alone. She was also a featured soloist for the Yale Glee Club's European Tour.

Miss FENTON has also appeared in Frankfurt's Mousonturm and toured as "The Voice" in Helena Waldmann's Circuit. She was invited to perform this role at the Copenhagen International Theatre Festival. Miss FENTON has also appeared at Theater Under the Stars.

Miss FENTON appeared on a live broadcast by KRTS in the Houston Public Library’s Second Wednesdays Live, as Liliane La Fleur in the Moores Opera House production of Nine, and was featured performing Die Winterreise. She performed in Istambul, Berlin, Munich Tel Aviv, and Vienna as a Cultural Ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Her future plans include recitals and several world premieres by Houston composers.

Curriculum Vitae

2000 – Present Houston, Texas

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Full-Time Professor Music Faculty - Houston Community College – 2013 to present

Voice, Diction Studies (Italian, German, French, English), IPA for Singers, Music Fundamentals Piano Class, Applied Piano, American Music, Music Appreciation

Voice Teacher – Memorial Music Voice Teacher – The Musician’s Academy Recording Studio from inception in 2001-2005 All levels, from young beginners to professionals

Community Activities/Services

President – Houston Tuesday Musical Club Founder/Artistic Director – Third Millenium Voices, a vocal recital series

Houston Chapter Member – The Voice Foundation – Charter Member

Board Member – Greater Houston NATS Chapter

World Aids Day Candlelight Services – Soprano Soloist (broadcast

KUHF)

Producer /Director – Country Music Benefit For Widows, Firehouse Saloon (Houston Fire Department Beneficiaries Producer/Advisor – “The Three of We” Scholarship Concert SAI Music Fraternity Alumnae member – charitable work throughout Houston area

Recent and Upcoming Appearances

Fall, 2018 – Opening of The Coleman Tower – Houston Medical Center – Featured Vocalist Fall, 2018 – “F & J: All Broadway” – Jim Vukovich, piano Spring, 2018 – “American Music Recital – From the Revolution to the 21st Century” – Keith Weber, Piano Faculty Honors Recital - Houston Summer, 2017 – Friday Afternoon Recitals – New Songs and Lieder

Spring, 2017 – Joint Voice Recital with Dr. Seong Shin Ra, Soprano and Dr. Yoogin Lee and

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James Vukovich, pianos Spring 2017 – “The Music of Roger Keele” – Roger Keele, Piano Fall, 2015 – World Premiere - Lead” 40-minute song cycle for soprano and piano trio Spring, 2014 – “E[itaphs” – Joseph Lo Cascio Fall, 2013 – Texoma NATS Presentation with Dr. Roger Keele Spring, 2013 – Arias for Dramatic Soprano – Dr. Roy Wylie Fall, 2012 – World Premiere- “Ludmilla and the Three Tenors” – written for Ms. Fenton – soprano and saxophone quartet, Dr. Allyson Applebaum Wells, composer

Spring, 2012 – World Premiere “Psalms: For Soprano & Orchestra” written for Ms. Fenton – Istanbul Festival Winter, 2012 – Artist and Director, 100th Artist Concert “An Opera Extravaganza” Tuesday Musical Club Summer 2011 – Film – Die Winterreise Spring, 2011 – Featured Artist, Tuesday Musical Club 100th Year Gala Fall, 2010 – World Premiere - St. Cecilia Chamber Music Concert – “Six Seasonal Songs”, “Epitaphs” Spring, 2010 – “Lyric America: Frances Fenton in Recital” Spring, 2009 – Cultural Ambassador – U.S. & Turkish State Departments – Germany Winter, 2009 - Die Winterreise with William Vendice, Metropolitan & Los Angeles Opera Fall, 2008 - McNeese State University – Guest Artist & Master Class Clinician Summer, 2008 – Lone Star Lyric Festival “Operetta Mit Schlag” Winter, 2008 – First performance of Die Winterreise by an American soprano Summer, 2007 – Series of Recitals in Germany with Roland Boer, Conductor April, 2007 – American Arias – SAI Celebrates America January, 2007 – 19th Century Women Composers October, 2006 – “(Relatively) Unknown Verdi Arias” March, 2006 – “Friends, Rivals, Siblings” with Joanna Gaines, Roger Keele Third Millennium Voices Concert Spring, 2005 – Cultural Ambassador - “A Celebration of American Music” – U.S. State Department Concerts Bar-Ilan University, and Weil Recital Hall, Kfar Shmaryahu Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Lena Gershuni, Pianist, The New Israeli National Opera Master Classes for Ashdod Chamber Opera, Ashdod, Israel April 2005 - “American Art Songs and Arias” – Palmengarten, Frankfurt a.Main, Germany May 2005 - Opera Rediviva – Lady Macbeth scenes and arias – Houston, Texas

Professional Affiliations

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NATS National Member Actors’ Equity Eligible Performer GdBH Member (German Musicians’ Union) Guest Judge – NAT); Resident Head Judge – NATS Houston Joint Master Classes with Katherine Ciesinski Judge – Opera Pacific, CA – Laila Conlon Vocal Competition (2 times) Judge – Sigma Alpha Iota Katie Dixie Vocal Scholarship (2 times) Judge – Ruth Burr Vocal Competition Head Judge Master Class and Recital – Orange County High School for the Arts – Orange, CA Master Class and Recital – Laguna Niguel, California Sigma Alpha Iota Performing Member Soprano Soloist – Ascension Episcopal Church Soprano Soloist – St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Tuesday Musical Club Performing Member The Voice Foundation – Houston Chapter, Founding Member

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Houston Community College Performances

Houston Community College Numerous Faculty Recitals Grand Opening Concert – Performing Arts Center Suor Angelica – Suor Angelica – Lucy Cain Hargis, Conductor

“Il Mondo Regal” with Rodney Gilchrist, countertenor and continuo instruments “American Songs and Arias” – Soprano with piano Steinway Dedication Ceremony Student and Faculty Composers Concerts –Six concerts of new works

Houston Community College – SW – System-Wide Faculty Honors Recital Houston Community College – NE – Soloist for Honors Graduation Ceremonies and Banquet - Three Years Houston Community College – System-Wide Concert in Honor of Asa Hilliard – Chosen by NE President

Recent Broadcast Performances (other than HCC)

KUHF – Modern Lyrical Composers, Dr. Roger Keele, piano KUHF – Die Winterreise (excerpts) Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra – Don Giovanni – Donna Anna – Broadcast into Mexico KRTS/Houston Public Library – “Second Wednesdays Live” Concert Series Broadcasts “The Literary Composer” - Soprano with piano and clarinet “American Series” – Soprano with piano KUHF/Houston – “The Front Row” with Christine Schaffer, Dean Dalton, Host Greater Houston NATS Comedy Central Performance at Texoma Conference Waco, TX, 2002 Texas Music Festival – “Close Encounters: Russian Vocal Masterpieces” Lisa’s Aria Pikovaya Dama, Songs from Shostakovich, Tchaidovsky Duet with Katherine Ciesinski

Recital/Concert Performances

Ascension Arts Series – Featured Recitalist, three seasons San Jacinto College - Soprano Soloist - “Sons of Orpheus: A Night at the Opera” La Forza del Destino, Il Trovatore - Leonoras Edgar Moore, Conductor Third Millenium Voices Inaugural Concert – Emerson Unitarian Church, Houston, TX Sigma Alpha Iota – An American Musicale, 2004, 2005, 2007

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University of Houston – Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance, 2001 -2002 (GPA 3.94)

Studies with Katherine Ciesinski

Lecturer/Moderator – Graduate Course for Master’s level vocal performance majors- “The Long-Term Singer” Assistant Stage Director – Moores Opera House – “Casanova’s Homecoming”

Moores Opera House – Nine – Liliane la Fleur Buck Ross, Director; Peter Jacoby, Conductor “Love American Style” – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Featuring Katherine Ciesinski Choral Works by German Composers – Soprano Soloist Roger S. Keele, Conductor Albert H. Wiggins Retrospective – “Dejection” “Una Serata all’Opera” – Moores Opera House/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Un Ballo in Maschera - Amelia Peter Jacoby, Conductor

1990-2000: Frankfurt, Germany

Vocal studies with Lisa Hagenau and Heinz Hagenau, Kammersaenger Repertoire studies with David Aronson (Vienna State Opera), Tomoko Okada (Munich Opera), Enrique Mazzola (La Scala), Steven Mould (Australian Opera)

Frankfurt Opera – Resident 1990-1997; guest appearances 1997-2000 Ariadne – Echo, Ariadne (cover for Deborah Voigt) – Stefan Soltesz, Conductor Cosi Fan Tutte – Fiordiligi, Despina – Roland Boer, Johannes Debus, Conductors Iphigenie en Tauride – Iphigenie, Diana – Steven Sloane, Conductor Elektra – Chrysothemis, Elektra (cover for Janis Martin), Vierte Magd – Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Eugene Onegin – Tatyana – Steven Mould, Conductor Jenufa – Jenufa, Barena– Guido Rumstadt, Conductor Le Nozze di Figaro – Countess, multiple conductors Der Rosenkavalier – Die Feldmarschallin, Die Modistin,– Spiros Argiris, Emmanuel Villaume, Michael Boder, Conductors Die Zauberfloete – Erste Dame Frankfurt Opera Chamber Concerts – Five seasons Frankfurt Opera Christmas Benefit Concerts – Ten seasons

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Guest Performances

Darmstadt Opera – Lieder concert with Theodore Ganger, Piano Dessau - Cosi Fan Tutte - Fiordiligi Erfurt – Circuit – Die Stimme Don Giovanni – Donna Anna, Donna Elvira Frankfurt Kammeroper - Die Zauberfloete – Erste Dame Ludwigshafen – Centennial Rossini Concert (broadcast) Mannheim Opera – Die Zauberfloete – Erste Dame Stuttgart Opera – engaged for Elsa in Lohengrin (appendicitis prevented performance)

Alte Oper – Frankfurt1 Recitalist - 1200th Birthday of the City of Frankfurt – The only American invited to sing in a year-long celebration Rossini Centennial Arias and Ensembles Concert – Elio Boncampagni, Conductor Amerika Haus – Frankfurt (also Berlin) “What the 48ers Found – What the 48ers Gave” – Recitalist with Otto Honeck, Conductor Benefit Concert for the American Field Service Exchange Students - Theodore Ganger, Piano Distinguished Performer 50 Years of theAmerica Haus in Germany, (one of two vocalists, along with Jessye Norman) Bad Homburg Festwochen Die Graefin Mariza – Graefin Mariza Concerts at the Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main Benefit Concert for the Victims of the Turkish Earthquake, sponsored by UNICEF – Mehmet Okonsar, designated National Treasure Pianist, Turkey Women Composers Series – “American Women Composers” Concert for the Sister Cities – Königstein,Germany and Lyons, France French and German Soprano Arias – Jonathan Nott, Intendant Luzern, Conductor Culture Dialogues in Bad Orb (resort/spa), Germany Die Vier Grobiane (School for Fathers) – Felice Wagner Arias Concert – Elizabetta, Elsa Giessen Festwoche, Germany Broadway, Operetta, Opera Concert with Dietrich Volle, Baritone Alexander Muchin, Conductor Holzhausenschloßchen Concerts “The Women Wrote, Too” – Women Composers – Ralf Lange, Dortmund Conductor Televised Live and Recorded for the Archives of the City of Frankfurt Mannheim Opera Orchestra Requiem - Dvorak Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Copenhagen World Premiere – Circuit – Die Stimme (The Voice) [email protected] www.francesfenton.com FRANCES FENTON 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com

National Television – HR3 - Inaugural Recitalist at the invitation of Chancellor Helmut Kohl – “Germany Celebrates 150 Years after the First German Parliament” Offenbach City Concerts – “Lied, Lieder….am allerliebsten” concert with soloists and orchestra – Steven Mould, Opera Australia, Conductor Rossini – Stabat Mater Paulskirche and the Frankfurter Logenhaus “Von der Naturidylle zur 48er Revolution” Recital with Actress Televised live via HR3 and SW3 Pilsener Orchestra – Mahler – Eighth Symphony Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Hessischen Rundfunks (State Radio) - Hessen Centennial Rossini Celebration – Soprano soloist Mass – Leonard Bernstein

“Il Mondo Regale” with Rodney Gilchrist, countertenor, broadcast from Goethe University – Roland Boer, English National Opera, Conductor Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra (Suedwest Rundfunk Orchester) – Baden-Baden Stuttgart – “Strauss Favorites” – Die Fledermaus (nationally televised on SW3) Elsenfeld Orchestra – “Divas – Opera and Operetta” Nobel Maennerchor 50th Anniversary Concert – Soprano soloist (Frankfurt Opera) Musikverein Vienna (International Concert Hall) Benefit concert to help rebuild the National and University Library of Sarajevo Sponsored by the U.S. State Department Rede Televisão Cultura – National Public Television, Brazil “Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios” - J. Rodrigo Aria from Yerma - Villa-Lobos Culture in Prague (PragueKultur) – Concerts at Stirin Castle Lieder by Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann Arias Concert – Jindrich Ptacek, Conductor Ankara Festival, Ankara and Istambul, Turkey American Songs and Arias with Mehmet Okonsar, pianist

Oratorio Performances

Soprano Soloist – Marienkirche (Church of Mary) Orchestra and Choir – Winfried Heurich, Conductor Dvorak – Mass in D Handel – The Messiah Haydn – The Creation Soprano Soloist – Matthaeusgemeinde (St. Matthew) Evangelical-Lutheran Church Bach Christmas Oratorio St. John Passion St. Matthew Passion

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World Premieres

“Ave Maris Stella” – Donald Joyce – Soprano with Men’s Chorus and Organ - NYC “Epitaphs” – Roger Keele & Frances Fenton The Face on the Barroom Floor – Henry Mollicone – Chamber Opera – Central City Galgenlieder – John David Earnest – Cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, actress and chamber orchestra - NYC “Grand Duet for Two Sopranos” – Richard Hundley - NYC “Lead” – Cycle for soprano and piano trio – Joseph Lo Cascio “Ludmilla and the Three Tenors” – Dr. Allyson Applebaum Wells - Houston “Rainy Days” – David Peterson Harvey – Soprano with Flute and Guitar - Houston “Regrets” – Chi Wa Liu - Houston “Relationships” – Sanchie Bobrow – Soprano with Flute and Viola - NYC Rosa Parks the Opera – Dr. Allyson Applebaum – Houston “Six Seasonal Songs” – Roger Keele “Sweeney Agonistes” – John Carter – Musical Revue for 3 Voices, 2 Actors, Piano – NYC That Jones Boy – John Carter – Broadway Musical – Mollie (femme fatale lead) - NYC

European Premieres

“A Letter” – Marion Bauer- song for soprano – Women Composers Series “Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente” – Benjamin Britten – Alte Oper, Frankfurt 1200th Birthday of the City of Frankfurt “Drei traute Gesaenge” – Pierre-Octave Ferroud “A la claire fontaine” – Frances Fenton – Istambul, Turkey “Songs from Liquid Days” – Philip Glass - adapted for soprano – American Field Service Benefit Concerts, Germany Selections from “Eight Songs” – Richard Hundley – Ankara; Paris; Vienna “Seven Goethe Lieder” – Mary Howe – Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Prague “Germany Celebrates 150 Years After the First German Parliament” Lieder aus “Gegenwart” – Marcel Rubin – Frankfurt; also Berlin 1200th Birthday of the City of Frankfurt

Benefit Concerts

Amerika Haus - Benefit Concert for the American Field Service Exchange Students - Theodore Ganger (Münich Opera), Piano Concerts at the Palmengarten - Benefit Concert for the Victims of the Turkish Earthquake, sponsored by UNICEF – Mehmet Okonsar, designated National Treasure Pianist, Turkey

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Professional Activities

Artistic Director – Vocal Division – “The Arts in Hessen” – Statewide Cultural Council for the Arts

English Diction Coach – Frankfurt Opera Voice Teacher – Frankfurt Ballet

Voice Teacher – Musikschule Offenbach e.G.- Conservatory, primary and college – the only American invited to teach

Composition

Del Mar College Composition Awards – First Prize University of Texas Undergraduate Composition Awards – Honors Recitals Prague State Opera Composition and Arranging Award Presented on Prague State Opera CD – “I Wonder As I Wander”

Language Skills

English, German - Fluent (native speaker level) French, Italian - Excellent to very good Czechoslovakian, Russian - Excellent pronunciation in all alphabets; reading, some spoken Portuguese - Excellent pronunciation

Spanish, Greek - Some skills

Piano Studies - 12 years, minor awards

Awards won by my students in Germany

1 international contest winner (popular/rock), including a recording contract; 1 national contest winner (Broadway musicals); 4 advanced conservatory scholarships; 2 with professional contracts with opera companies.

European Representation

Agentur Fuger Culture Consulting Bellagato Kuenstlermanagement ZBF [email protected] www.francesfenton.com FRANCES FENTON 1202 Seagler Rd., Apt. 147 Houston, TX 77042 (832) 492-4721 www.francesfenton.com

OPERA ROLES PERFORMED (Original Language, unless indicated):

Barber VANESSA Vanessa Cavalieri LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE DI ANIMA E DI CORPO Anima Cimarosa I DUE SUPPOSTI CONTI Fidalma IL MARITO DISPERATO Eugenia Händel GIULIO CESARE IN EGITTO Cleopatra Haydn L’INFEDELTÀ DELUSA Vespina Menotti THE TELEPHONE Lucy Mozart COSI FAN TUTTE Fiordiligi DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE Erste Dame DON GIOVANNI Donna Elvira Poulenc DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES Blanche Puccini LA BOHEME Mimì MADAMA BUTTERFLY Cio-Cio San Verdi STIFFELIO Lina LA TRAVIATA Violetta Wolf-Ferrari DIE VIER GROBIANE Felice LE DONNE CURIOSE Rosaura

OPERA ROLES PERFORMED ( in Concert Version):

Mozart DON GIOVANNI Donna Anna Kálmán DIE GRÄFIN MARIZA Gräfin Mariza Verdi IL TROVATORE Leonora

Puccini TURANDOT Turandot Verdi LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Leonora MACBETH Lady Macbeth Wagner TANNHÄUSER Elisabeth

COVER ROLES:

Strauss ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Ariadne (for Deborah Voight, Deborah Polaski) Strauss ELEKTRA Elektra (for Janis Martin)

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ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Beethoven FIDELIO Marzelline Bizet CARMEN Micaëla Donizetti LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Lucia Gounod ROMEO ET JULIETTE Juliette Haydn L’INFEDELTÀ DELUSA Sandrina Massenet MANON Manon Mozart DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL Constanze Puccini LA BOHEME Musetta GIANNI SCHICCHI Nella

OPERA HOUSES & ORCHESTRAS:

Akademisches Orchester / Zürich Liederkranz Foundation / NY Bay Area Symphony / Houston Opera Classics of New Jersey Bel Canto Opera Company / NY Opera Mobile / Zürich Center for Opera Performances / NY Oper Frankfurt Central City Opera / Colorado Opernhaus Zürich Erfurt Oper Orquestra do Estado do São Paulo Greenwich House Orchestra Pine Orchard Artists Festival / NY Hessischer Rundfunk/ Frankfurt am Main Radio-Sinfonie Orchester des Hessischen Houston Chamber Orchestra Rundfunks Houston Grand Opera Rede Televisão Cultura (PBS) / Brazil Houston Symphony Orchestra San Antonio Festival Kammerorchester Thalwil / Zürich San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Kulturdialog Bad Orb Südwestrundfunkorchester / Baden-Baden Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra / Texas & “Voice of America” – Radio Mexico

REPRESENTATIVE CONDUCTORS:

Spiros Argiris Winfried Heurich Roland Boer Ferdinand Leitner Michael Boder Daniel Lipton Sylvain Cambreling John Moriarty Johannes Debus Jindrich Ptacék Lawrence Foster Guido Rumstadt Terence Frazor Olga Geczy

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ORATORIOS PERFORMED:

Bach KANTATE NR. 140 MATTHÄUS PASSION WEINACHTSORATORIUM Beethoven C-DUR MESSE CHORAL FANTASY Britten CEREMONY OF CAROLS REJOICE IN THE LAMB Cimarosa MAGNIFICAT Dvoràk REQUIEM MESSE in D-DUR, OP. 76 Earnest GALLOWS SONGS Fauré REQUIEM Franck LES BEATITUDES Gounod MESSE SOLENNELLE Händel THE MESSIAH Haydn DIE SCHÖPFUNG Hundley GRAND DUET FOR TWO SOPRANOS Lotti LAUDATE Mendelssohn-Bartholdy “HÖR MEIN BITTEN, HERR” Mahler SYMPHONY NO. 8 Mozart EXSULTATE, JUBILATE Pergolesi STABAT MATER Rossini STABAT MATER Saint-Saëns ORATORIO DE NOËL Vivaldi GLORIA LAUDATE MAGNIFICAT EDUCATION:

The University of Texas at Austin Bachelor’s Degree The University of Houston Master’s Degree, December 2002

VOICE TEACHERS & COACHES:

Luigi Marchiò –U.S.A.& Italy Frances Bible – U.S.A. Dixie Neill – Europe & Canada Katherine Ciesinski – U.S.A. Ted Taylor – U.S.A. Ellen Faull – U.S.A. Jess Walters – U.S.A. Lisa Hagenau - Germany

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REVIEWS

Munich American soprano Frances Fenton, with her great dramatic voice, presented an evening of American music, filled with nuance and emotion. Her voice is even and beautiful in all registers and she inhabits each song. This was a wonderful recital from Miss Fenton and her accomplished pianist, Mehmet Okonsar.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Frances Fenton excelled! U.S. State Department

Second Wednesdays Live

A crowd-pleaser...... standing room only. If you missed this recital of American songs and arias, you missed the most delightful performance we have heard in years. Go hear her! KRTS, Houston

Frances Fenton astonished her listeners with ”The Literary Composer“, effortlessly tracing musical and literary trends. She and her accompanist, Christine Schaffer, created an experience that transfixed the audience. There is simply no better recitalist, at least in Houston. KRTS, Houston

Ascension Arts Series The highlight of this evening (Sacred Arias and Duet Works) was the Pergolesi Stabat Mater with soprano Frances Fenton. Here were two artists in peak form, performing in perfect vocal harmony. KUHF, Houston

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50th Anniversary Concert, Akzo-Nobel Männerchor

Among the prominent guests was Frances Fenton, soprano from Texas, who has made a name for herself at the Frankfurt Opera. The soprano took her responsibility seriously and was widely convincing. Her interpretations of "Getting to Know You" (The King and I) and "I Could Have Danced All Night" (My Fair Lady), but above all, "The Jewel Song" from Gounod's Faust and "Un bel di" from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, rightly provoked enthusiastic applause. Full of feeling, but without false pathos, and with her effortless singing, also in the top, Frances Fenton both showed her qualities as a singer and pleased all with her naturalness. Main-Echo, Aschaffenburg

Turkey

Frances Fenton-Mehmet Okonsar Recital

American soprano Frances Fenton, who came to Turkey as the guest of the Ankara Festival, gave an elegant recital in Istanbul with pianist Mehmet Okohsar. The program was exceptionally enjoyable, consisting of American arias and contemporary American tunes. For some unknown reason, we are accustomed to hearing these tunes not in an operatic context, but in a simplistic way. Ms. Fenton's presentation challenged this point very effectively. Mehmet Okonsar's sophisticated musical talents and accompaniment were also very pleasing. Cumhurihyet, Istanbul

A magical evening! The Turkish Daily News

Second Wednesdays Live

A crowd-pleaser...... standing room only. If you missed this recital of American songs and arias, you missed the most delightful performance we have heard in years. Go hear her! KRTS, Houston

Frances Fenton astonished her listeners with ”The Literary Composer“, effortlessly tracing musical and literary trends. She and her accompanist, Christine Schaffer, created an experience that transfixed the audience. There is simply no better recitalist, at least in Houston. KRTS, Houston

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Ascension Arts Series The highlight of this evening (Sacred Arias and Duet Works) was the Pergolesi Stabat Mater with soprano Frances Fenton. Here were two artists in peak form, performing in perfect vocal harmony. KUHF, Houston

1848 - Aufbruch zur Freiheit - "Von der Naturidylle zur 48er Revolution"

The Lieder, offered by Frances Fenton and Theodore Ganger, were fresh and surprising. One does not have the possibility every day to hear, for example, songs by the Countess von Sachsen-Weimar with texts by Goethe, especially done in such an impressive way. Frankfurter Neue Presse Circuit - A Performance (Frances Fenton - Voice)

All elements combined to make this an unforgettable and indescribable theater experience. Erfurt Liederabend - Alte Oper Frankfurt

With a dark, dramatic voice, Frances Fenton sang of the gods and their darlings, those who love! (Program listings)...She achieved a saucy tone...her great voice had a bloom of chamber music facility. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Chamber Music in the Frankfurt Opera

(Salon Ensemble-Oper Frankfurt) Between the Viennese and Budapest melodies the three "Swinging Pascarettes Sisters" (Frances Fenton, Carol Bruetting and Pamela McFarland) entered...singing various popular songs virtuosically, including "Johnny One Note" and "Bei mir bist du schön". They accented their performance ironically and fully shared in the artistic success of the matinee. Frankfurter Rundschau The San Antonio Festival

(Dvorak REQUIEM) Soprano Frances Fenton displayed a bright, crystalline voice.

The San Antonio Light

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(L'INFEDELTA DELUSA) ...and Frances Fenton is a fetching and charming Sandrina whose pleadings with her father are utterly convincing. Her subsequent disappointment and despair are believable even in this comic context.

The San Antonio Express News

Frances Fenton sang the plaintive role of Sandrina with a pleasant, full-throated sound...

The Houston Post

Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra

("Gavotte" - MANON)...Fenton's voice is a treat. Hovering somewhere in the stratosphere for the bulk of her presentation, she seemed transported ... a rare opportunity to be in "on the ground floor" of an opera star in the making.

The Laredo Times

An impressive debut ... The arias "Martern aller Arten" and "Ah, fors'e lui...Sempre libera" were stunning! El Diario, Mexico

(QUATRO MADRIGALES AMATORIOS)...enchanted audience members. The Laredo Times Pine Orchard Artists Festival

(A NIGHT AND A DAY ON BROADWAY)..."Glitter and Be Gay", sung by Frances Fenton demonstrated the art of flowing cadenzas. Ms. Fenton's expressive face lends much to all her performances. The Catskill Times (THE CONSUL)…Soprano Frances Fenton displayed a voice of astonishing beauty.

The New York Time

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