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Studio Buddies Newsletter Studio Buddies Newsletter Published tri-annually by the Houston Grand Opera Guild December 2009 Contents Welcome Summer/Fall 2009 1 The Houston Grand Opera Studio (HGOS) has continued its tradition of excellence and innovation as the 2009/10 season has begun. We welcomed seven new artists hailing from as far Studio Alumni News 2 a w a y as Washington state to as near as Humble! We have been fortunate to see these talented Congratulations 3 young artists perform on the main stage at the Wortham as well as in th e Recitals at Rienzi series and Opera Night Live, in addition to the amazing Studio Showcase performance. Read on! Profile 4 Summer/Fall 2009 in Review For 2009/10 season, the Houston Fall 2009 Stephen Hopkins also served as Grand Opera Studio welcomed coach for Elixir and played in the Kiri Dyan Deonarine, soprano, Fall 2009 began with the Buddies orchestra and will be coaching Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano, Welcome Lunch on August 31st for The Turn of the Screw and for the Studio Artists at Wortham Catherine Martin, mezzo- Xerxes this season. soprano, Nathaniel Peake, tenor, Center. The Studio Buddies Brendan Tuohy, tenor, Michael program provided lunch for the Following L’elisir d’amore w a s BUDDIES WELCOME Sumuel, baritone, and Stephanie Studio Artists as a way to Maestro Patrick Summers’ LUNCH▼ Rhodes, pianist/ coach and welcome them to their new triumphant production of positions with the Houston Grand Lohengrin in which we welcomed back second-year a r ti s ts Octavio Moreno, baritone, Opera. welcomed back Studio alumni Richard Paul Fink (HGOS ’84-’87) Adam Cioffari, bass-b a r i to n e , The official Studio Welcome Party David Hanlon, pianist/coach, as Frederick of Telramund and was held on September 12th at Ryan McKinny (HGOS ’05-’08) as and Stephen Hopkins, pianist/ the home of Sue Patrick. S tu d i o coach. the King’s Herald as well as Artists had the chance to mingle featuring Studio members with their buddies and the Summer 2009 Brendan Tuohy, Octavio Moreno, buddies-at-large in Sue’s Michael Sumuel, and Adam Our Studio Artists keep beautiful home. Cioffari as the four Nobles. themselves busy year round and Performances for the 2009/10 November saw the first Buddies this summer was no exception. season began with the first of the ▲ Buddy Janet Sims with Kiri Dyan Deonarine was an outing for the year as we all went Catherine Martin and Rachel Recitals at Rienzi series, aptly to Ocean Palace for a glorious apprentice singer at the Santa e n ti tl e d “I’m a stranger here Willis-Sørensen at the Buddies Fe Opera, Catherine Martin w a s helping of Dim Sum. A great deal Welcome Lunch myself…” introducing new artists of exotic food was eaten and a Studio artist with the to the Studio with music by Chautauqua Opera where she many bellies were satisfied. Dvořák, Grisar, Strauss, and Duke. Following Dim Sum the Studio was the recipient of the Toni and T h i s w a s followed closely by a Joe Goldfarb Young Artist Artists and Buddies went to Chez special performance at Beignet for the best homemade A w a r d , Nathaniel Peake downtown Houston’s Discovery performed the role of Tybalt in beignets and café au lait this Green where Studio artists gave side of the Mississippi. Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette in Houstonians a preview of the Syracuse, NY and was also a part upcoming season. The second of the Recitals at of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Rienzi series was held during the Opera Program along with The first opera of the season was first week of December. As in Michael Sumuel and Stephanie Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and years past the December Rienzi Rhodes. Brendan Tuohy, spent featured alumnus Liam Bonner featured a holiday theme. There ▲ Buddies with Studio Artists th e summer at Santa Fe Opera (HGOS ’05-’08) as the dashingly were readings from Dante's where he cov e r ed Gastone in La handsome Belcore as well as Inferno, Gilgamesh, the Traviata and the Clubman #1 in Catherine Martin in her HGO Bhagavad Gita, Homer's the world premiere of Paul main stage debut in the role of Odyssey, th e Song of Songs, Moravec's The Letter. Second- Giannetta. A m o n g th e highlights Emily Dickinson, Faust, and year artist Octavio Moreno of the run were HGO’s high Thoreau's Walden interspersed represented Mexico in the BBC school performance nights which within the program which was Singer of the World competition showcased the talents of Kiri e n ti tl e d “The Long Journey in Cardiff, Wales, Adam Cioffari Dyan Deonarine as Adina, Home.” During this recital the sang Colline in Aspen Opera Nathaniel Peake as Nemorino, audience was treated to a piece Theaer’s production of La and Michael Sumuel as based on text by Samuel Beckett bohème. Stephen Hopkins Dulcamara. First-year artist that had been set to original w o r k e d as part of Des Moines Stephanie Rhodes served as a music by Studio artist David Metro Opera’s music staff where coach for this production and Hanlon. ▲ M i c h a e l Sumuel and Kathy he coached for Puccini operas will also be coaching for Tosca Kelly Tosca and Gianni Schicchi. and Queen of Spades later this The following weekend season. Second-year artist audiences were dazzled by the PAGE 2 2 TYPE TITLE HERE performances in the Studio Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Alumnus and baritone Showcase (formerly known as trovatore, Of Mice and M e n , and powerhouse Richard Paul Fink WELCOME PARTY ▼ “Studio Scenes”). This incredible Così fan tutte. Just like the who had recently appeared in performance featured scenes previous year, we were honored Houson Grand Opera’s from Turandot, Xerxes, Wozzeck, by the presence of HGO Studio production of Lohengrin. Studio Alumni News Jamie Barton (HGOS ’07-’09) Angelica. Next year she will be in Joshua Hopkins (HGOS ’03-’05), spent this past summer at the Wolf Trap’s Discovery Series with who made his Metropolitan Aspen Music Festival where she Faith Sherman (HGOS ’07-’09), Opera debut as Ping in the to o k part in a recital with Ryan singing Mozart, Bach, and Britten fall’s Turandot production, also McKinny and Richard Bado, and with the Cincinnati May Festival, appeared as Argante in then presented Arias and performing under the baton of Handel’s Rinaldo, part of the Barcarolls by Bernstein with the Central City Opera’s 2009 Lorin Maazel for Suor Angelica Aspen Music Festival Orchestra. In summer festival, during which and will then make her role debut ▲ Catherine Martin, Jennifer th e fall Jamie made her he also has an opportunity to as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro Sickler, and Stephanie Rhodes Metropolitan Opera debut as Met enjoy Colorado country. Josh with the L.A. Opera. Debut with 2nd Lady in Die has signed an exclusive Zauberflöte as well as her debut recording c o n t r a c t w i t h A T M A The 15th season of the Morgan with the Colorado Symphony Library’s George London Classique and his first recital performing the Jeremiah Foundation for Singers recital recording on the label is to b e Symphony by Bernstein. Jamie series featured a sold-out duo- released in 2010. He debuted made her Kennedy Center debut recital by mezzo-soprano Joyce with his “hometown” opera this November performing in a DiDonato (HGOS ’96-’98) and company in September 2009, r e c i ta l accompanied by K a th y bass-b a r i to n e Eric Owens (HGOS Opera Lyra Ottawa, as Kelly and she will be returning to ’95-’97) in October. This was one Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. In Carnegie Hall with Kathy Kelly for of many concerts for Eric this the summer he will return to another recital. We in Houston year, including four at Carnegie Santa Fe Opera as Papageno were lucky enough to enjoy a Hall. Joyce received one of five i n th e reprise of the 2006 Tim preview of these recitals before Distinguished Achievement Albery production of Die audiences in Washington, D.C. Awards from Opera News in Zauberflöte and will be singing and New York. Jamie will be November. Sid in Paul Curran's production making her Canadian Opera of Britten’s Albert Herring. ▲ Adam Cioffari and Brenda Company debut as Emelia in Jeremy Frank (HGOS ’04-’07) Hopkins will debut with Pacific Harvey-Traylor Otello before returning to the Met worked on Siegfried and Il Opera Victoria as Olivier in their for Die Zauberflöte again. Next barbiere di Siviglia with the L.A. production of Johann Strauss’ summer Jamie will be performing Opera this fall and next year will Capriccio in February and with the role of Marcellina in Le nozze be working with young artists in Arizona Opera in April as th e di Figaro with the Opera Theatre Seattle on Ariadne auf Naxos, loveable rascal Figaro in of St. Louis. returning to L.A. for their complete Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He Ring Cycle followed by Wolf Trap also has several concert Liam Bonner (HGOS ’05-’08), w h o Opera in the summer. performances coming up. performed Belcore in HGO’s recent production of L’elisir Alicia Gianni (HGOS ’06-’08) is a James (J.J.) Kee (HGOS ’07-’09) d’amore, will make his debut with cross-over hit, making waves with w a s a w a rded a HGO Guild the Metropolitan Opera as her jazz trio and she is truly scholarship for intensive study of Moralès in Carmen as well as excited about her first album German, attending a one- covering Horatio in Ambroise month eight-hour-daily being released next year! Thomas’s Hamlet before taking program in Berlin last summer, ▲ Bonnie Sue Wooldridge and on the role of Dottore Malatesta great preparation for his two- Beau Gibson (HGOS ’06-’09) Octavio Moreno in Don Pasquale with Opera New year contract with Deutche made his San Francisco Opera Jersey next summer.
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