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Martha Domingo, Director SARAH SHAFER, PAMINA BIOGRAPHY Soprano Sarah Shafer made her San Francisco Opera debut as Mary Lennox in the 2013 world premiere of The Secret Garden, presented at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall; she also created the role of Rosetta in the world premiere of Two Women at San Francisco Opera in 2015. Career highlights include Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Glyndebourne Festival and at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall; Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore) with Opera Memphis; and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) with Opera Philadelphia. Shafer’s credits with Philadelphia’s Curtis Opera Theatre include Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Elizabeth Zimmer (Elegy for Young Lovers), Ilia (Idomeneo), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Sofia (Il Signor Bruschino), Mélisande (Impressions of Pelléas), Pamina, and Almirena (Rinaldo). On the concert stage, Shafer has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Mexico, the Wrocław Symphony Orchestra (Poland), the Louisiana Philharmonic, Iowa’s Quad City Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the New York Choral Society. Shafer has been a resident artist at Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, where she worked with pianist Richard Goode; she appeared in a solo recital with Goode in 2012 in Philadelphia. NADINE SIERRA, PAMINA BIOGRAPHY Former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow Nadine Sierra made her Company debut in 2011 creating the roles of Juliet and Barbara in the world premiere of Heart of a Soldierand returned as Papagena in The Magic Flute (2012) and Musetta in La Bohème (2014). Sierra most recently appeared with the Company as Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (2015). She is an alumna of the 2010 Merola Opera Program, where she was heard as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore. Winner of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Sierra has appeared in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor in Zurich; Musetta with the Israeli Opera; Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) with Palm Beach Opera; Gilda (Rigoletto) with the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Atlanta Opera, and Seattle Opera; and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at Virginia Opera. Her engagements this season include debuts with the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, and Berlin State Opera, and Gilda with Atlanta Opera. She holds first prizes from the George London, Gerda Lissner, Loren Zachary, and Marilyn Horne Foundation Competitions and is a recipient of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s Study and Career Grant. THE MAGIC FLUTE EDUCATION MATERIALS PAUL APPLEBY, TAMINO BIOGRAPHY A winner of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, tenor Paul Appleby makes his San Francisco Opera debut as Tamino, a role he has performed with Washington National Opera. In the 2014–15 season, his engagements include Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress) and David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) with the Metropolitan Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with San Diego Opera, and concerts with the Milwaukee Symphony and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Program, his engagements with that company include creating the role of Brian in Muhly’s Two Boys, Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Hylas (Les Troyens), Demetrius (The Enchanted Island), and Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos). Other career highlights include Ferrando (Così fan tutte) with Frankfurt Opera, Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company, and Boston Lyric Opera; Fritz (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) with Santa Fe Opera; Tom Rakewell with Frankfurt Opera; Agenore (Il Re Pastore) with Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Gomatz (Zaïde) with Wolf Trap Opera. Appleby has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts, Appleby has been recognized with the 2012 Top Prize by the Gerda Lissner Foundation, 2012 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, and the 2011 Richard Tucker Career Grant and George London Foundation Award. EFRAÍN SOLÍS, PAPAGENO BIOGRAPHY Mexican-American baritone Efraín Solís is a second-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow who made his Company debut this summer as Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly) and appeared as Christian (Un Ballo in Maschera), Sciarrone (Tosca), and Dandini (La Cenerentola) earlier this season. In the spring of 2013, he joined Opera Santa Barbara as a member of their Studio Artist Program, where he sang the role of Il Notario and covered Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale. As a participant of the 2013 Merola Opera Program, he sang Junius in The Rape of Lucretia and covered Count Almaviva inLe Nozze di Figaro. Chosen as a finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the 2013 Houston Grand Opera's Eleanor McCollum Competition, Solís holds degrees from Chapman University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he performed the title role of Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, and the title role of Gianni Schicchi. THE MAGIC FLUTE EDUCATION MATERIALS ALFRED REITER, SARASTRO BIOGRAPHY Bass-baritone Alfred Reiter made his U.S. debut with San Francisco Opera in 2002 as Timur (Turandot) and Frère Bernard (Saint François d'Assise). Career highlights include Titurel (Parsifal) at the Bayreuth Festival and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Fafner (Das Rheingold) with the Vienna State Opera and in Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg; Fafer (Siegfried) in Geneva and Cleveland; Sarastro at the Glyndebourne Festival and in London, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Bologna, Tokyo, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, and Los Angeles; Gurnemanz (Parsifal) with Welsh National Opera and in Geneva; Rocco (Fidelio) in Bologna, Rome, and Madrid; King Marke (Tristan und Isolde) in Geneva, Cardiff, and Cologne; Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer) in Brussels; and Graf Waldner (Arabella) in Barcelona, among others. ALBINA SHAGUMURATOVA, THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT BIOGRAPHY Russian coloratura soprano Albina Shagumuratova made her Company debut as the Queen of the Night in 2012 and returned later that year as Gilda (Rigoletto). In the 2014–15 season, her engagements include Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) with Paris Opera, the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor with the Metropolitan Opera, and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Shagimuratova is a graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and her roles with that company include the Queen of the Night, Gilda, Musetta (La Bohème), and the title role of La Traviata. Career highlights include the Queen of the Night at the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, the Met, Milan’s La Scala, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Los Angeles Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Los Angeles Opera, and the Bolshoi Theatre; Violetta (La Traviata) in Moscow; Amina (La Sonnambula) and Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore) in Vienna; Gilda with Chicago Opera Theater; and the title role of Manon in Luxembourg. THE MAGIC FLUTE EDUCATION MATERIALS GREG FEDDERLY, MONASTATOS BIOGRAPHY American tenor Greg Fedderly returned to San Francisco Opera most recently creating the role of Detective Thibodeau in the world premiere of 2013's Dolores Claiborne. Other Company appearances include Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos) in 2002, Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro) in 2006 and 2010, Pang (Turandot) in 2011, and Monostatos (The Magic Flute) in 2007 and 2012. Fedderly was a principal artist with Los Angeles Opera and has also performed with the Washington Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, and at the Aldeburgh and Drottningholm Festivals, among others. Recent engagements include Monostatos, Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi), and Prunier (La Rondine) with Los Angeles Opera; Monostatos, Don Basilio, Goro (Madama Butterfly) and Bob Boles (Peter Grimes) at the Metropolitan Opera; Bob Boles with the San Diego Opera; and Brighella with Washington National Opera. Fedderly received a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, where he was awarded the Marilyn Horne Scholarship. JACQUELINE PICCOLINO, FIRST LADY BIOGRAPHY Soprano Jacqueline Piccolino is a second-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow who made her San Francisco Opera debut in 2013 as Stella in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. She returned as a maid in the world premiere of Dolores Claiborne, and as Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Clotilde (Norma), and Mrs. Hayes (Susannah). As a participant in the 2012 and 2013 Merola Opera Program, she appeared as Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Arminda (La Finta Giardiniera). As a studio artist with Wolf Trap Opera Company, she has appeared in that company’s productions of The Inquisitive Women, Sweeney Todd, and Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Other career highlights include appearing in the Napa Festival del Sole’s Bouchaine Young Artist Concert Series and participating in the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Vocal Academy. Piccolino is a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation and winner of the New York Lyric Opera Theatre Competition and the Bel Canto Competition. THE MAGIC FLUTE EDUCATION MATERIALS NIAN WANG, SECOND LADY BIOGRAPHY Mezzo-soprano Nian Wang is a first-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow and a participant in the 2014 Merola Opera Program, where her repertory included Juno (Handel’s Semele), Federica (Luisa Miller), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), and the title role of Carmen. Currently pursuing studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, her credits there include the title roles of La Cenerentola and Rinaldo, Mother Jeanne (Dialogues des Carmélites), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Kate (Britten’s Owen Wingrave), the Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Siebel (Faust), and the First Witch (Dido and Aeneas). Other credits include Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) with the Martina Arroyo Foundation; Chinese Tea Cup, Female Cat, Shepherd, and Squirrel in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and Mother (Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar) at Bard College; and Chreubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Princeton Symphony.
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