PRESENTS Table of Contents

Home , Becoming Santa Claus, Carl Tanner, Douglas Ahlstedt, Jane Eaglen, Mark Adamo, Mildred Miller

Welcome...... 3

Staff and Board of Directors...... 6

About Pittsburgh Festival Opera...... 7

Cornetti’s Candid Concert and After-Party | July 10...... 8

Marianne: Unstaged | July 11, 18, and 25...... 10

Pit Crew: Singer-Free Sundays | July 12, 19, and 26...... 13

Leitmotif: Walking through Wagner | July 16...... 17

I, Too, Sing | July 17...... 18

Composer Spotlight: Mark Adamo | July 23...... 20

Putting it Together: Online Young Artists Program | July 24...... 21

2020 OYAP Faculty...... 26

Rusalka: A Mermaid’s Tale | July 25...... 27

Contributions, Gifts, and Institutional Support...... 29 Welcome from the President

We need 20-20 vision to view the events of 2020. Much of what we took for granted, including the highest ever level of our economy and the lowest ever level of unemployment, suggested a bright future for the performing arts. We at Pittsburgh Festival Opera were especially optimistic, having attracted the internationally known mezzo-soprano, Marianne Cornetti, as our Artistic Director.

Marianne and our staff saw performing arts companies around the world canceling their seasons due to the pandemic. There was no way that, with the restrictions placed upon social gatherings, the remarkable schedule of events comprising our 2020 season could take place as planned. Our Artistic Director, staff, and teaching faculty reimagined the season’s program by postponing our main stage operas to next season and reworking the 14 elements which comprise this program into an online format.

We welcome our audiences, new and old, to the odd world of 2020. Our Board of Directors and I hope that you enjoy the wonderful world of opera as it exists in this new format.

Eugene N. Myers, M.D., FRCS Edin (Hon) President, Pittsburgh Festival Opera 3 From the Artistic Director

Hi dear friends!

When life gives you lemons, make Limoncello!

We are living through a pandemic. We have embraced it, we are challenged by it, but we won’t give in to it. I am so happy to announce to you the debut of UNSTAGED, our online festival. From July 10-26, you will find 12 wonderful events that have been programmed to broadcast on our original festival dates before COVID-19.

There is something for everyone: Cornetti’s Candid Concert & Live Afterparty with Anna Singer; 3 orchestra showcases; Rusalka: A Mermaid's Tale; I, Too, Sing presented by Candace Burgess; Leitmotif, Walking through Wagner; conversations with artists, a Composer Spotlight with Mark Adamo; our Young Artists and our voice faculty for our newly renamed Hans and Leslie Fleischner Online Young Artists Program, and our fun Finale with Anna Singer and Rob Frankenberry sending our virtual online festival to a close. I hope you will enjoy UNSTAGED, our online festival - pandemic style!

Marianne Cornetti Artistic Director 4 From the Executive Director

2020. In a few years, we will look back on this pivotal year and remember the difficulties and disruptions to our daily lives and the seeds of change that were planted. For those of us who make a living in the opera business, 2020 represents a seismic shift in how we are able to disseminate operatic content, stay relevant to you and our community, and provide opportunities to opera artists across the industry - not to mention being interesting and engaging enough for you to want to click on us and stick with us. What you are about to see in UNSTAGED is work specifically created and designed to be performed for an online audience on a small screen

.I'm proud of the staff at Pittsburgh Festival Opera and the artistic leadership of Marianne Cornetti. UNSTAGED represents the hope that we all need that we will once again assemble in the theater to experience the power of the human voice. UNSTAGED represents the resilience of your Pittsburgh Festival Opera Board of Directors, donors, supporters, and staff - the proof that we will not let a pandemic stop us from communicating the beauty that happens when people work together toward a common goal. UNSTAGED is an opportunity for you to get a little closer to the people who make opera a wonderful community - and by joining us today, you help us feel essential.

We hope that you will find it in your heart to donate to Pittsburgh Festival Opera during these most challenging times. When we were forced to cancel our 2020 season, all of our ticket revenue evaporated. All of the content you experience in UNSTAGED is completely free, but that means that Pittsburgh Festival Opera receives no earned income for this one- of-a-kind experience. When you tune-in to the Festival Finale 'telethon' on July 26, please help support our return to the stage in 2021 with your financial gift, or you can donate anytime by clicking the donate button on our website.

Thank you for watching us and be sure to share this website with all your friends and most of all, please stay safe and healthy as you enjoy our Festival!

Christopher Powell 5 Executive Director Administrative Staff Christopher M. Powell Executive Director

Marianne Cornetti Artistic Director

Roxy MtJoy Director of Institutional Advancement

Rob Frankenberry Hans and Leslie Fleischner Young Artists Program, Director

Seamus Ricci Director of Education

Lindsay Lehman Artistic Administrator

B Crittenden Company Operations Assistant

Iain Crammond UNSTAGED Video Editor

Board of Directors Dr. Eugene N. Myers, President Joseph Bielecki, Vice-President Clement George, Treasurer Gail Novak Mosites, Secretary Mildred Miller Posvar, Founder Sharon Alvarez * Dr. Roxana Barad * John C. Barber, MD. Dr. Margaretha Casselbrant * Demareus N. Cooper J. Douglas Florey * William Guy * Carole Kamin * Michael Knaub Dr. Etsuro K. Motoyama * Lana Neumeyer Lieutenant Commander, Dr. John Pastin * Juddson Poeske Marina Posvar * Janice Rosenberg * Elizabeth Russell Dr. James Sahovey * Phyllis J. Sidwell * Carolyn Smith Peggy Smyrnes-Williams * Maria Spacagna * Roseanne Wholey 6 About Pittsburgh Festival Opera Pittsburgh Festival Opera presents innovative opera by producing American works, reinterpreting older works, and new works for the widest possible audience. The company focuses on diversity in programming and casting, crossing boundaries and bringing together talents from all the arts, encouraging new talent, and broadening audiences through outreach and education, to create a body of work that is original, entertaining, contemporary, and relevant.

Pittsburgh Festival Opera brings the power of world-class performances to humanize, energize and re- define opera as an experience that is up-close and personal, approachable, and relevant to today’s audiences. We break boundaries in the arts, bringing together audiences and artists of all backgrounds to engage in experiences that inspire and enthrall.

The company was founded in 1978 by Mildred Miller Posvar and Helen Knox. In its over 40-year history, Pittsburgh Festival Opera has presented more than 50 Pittsburgh premieres and 28 world premieres.

Mildred Miller

7 Cornetti's Candid Concert July 10 Marianne Cornetti, Mezzo-Soprano Walter Morales, Piano

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8 Cornetti's Candid Concert and After-Party Walter Morales and Anna Singer and the PFO Team

Walter Morales Salazar, a native of Costa Rica, is the Music Director of the Edgewood Symphony Orchestra. His previous positions include Music Director of Undercroft Opera, Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Ensemble, Head of Music of Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Assistant Director of Orchestral Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Conductor of the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Philharmonic. He is the First Prize winner of the 2015 American Prize in Conducting. In 2016, he became the first candidate to receive four American Prize nominations in Conducting in the divisions of Professional Orchestra, Professional Opera, University Opera and Community Orchestra. He has been a guest conductor with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, Heredia Symphony Orchestra, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, Butler County Symphony Orchestra, McKeesport Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Youth Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Pittsburgh Youth Chamber Orchestra, University of Costa Rica Symphony Orchestra, University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Rutgers Chamber Orchestra. He has served as cover conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. An active concert pianist and recording artist, Morales has toured throughout the United States, Central and South America. Through his numerous performances as conductor and pianist, Morales has become one of the foremost interpreters of Costa Rican music in the world. For more information about Walter Morales please visit: www.waltermoralesmusic.com.

Anna Singer enjoys a dual career as radio host for the classical music radio station WQED-FM—the Voice of the Arts in Western Pennsylvania—and as an opera singer. She sang Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with New York City Opera, and has performed the title roles in productions of Tosca, Salome, and Aida to name a few. Her favorite roles include Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore and Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure. Recent projects include the role of Julia Child in Lee Hoiby's Bon Appetit!, Mrs. Lovett in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, and Desiree in Sondheim's A Little Night Music. In her hometown of Pittsburgh, audiences remember fondly her portrayals of Grandma in Ricky Ian Gordon's The Grapes of Wrath, and the Duchess of Krakenthorp in The Daughter of the Regiment. Last fall, Anna was delighted to return to perform with Resonance Works celebrating Leonard Bernstein's one-hundredth birthday and appearing as Madame Dilly—the somewhat tipsy and potted voice teacher of repute. She is also delighted to have premiered the songs of Robert Schultz with poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay last April. In her free time, she has taken up oil painting, and her work can be seen at asingerpaints.com. For almost twenty years, she has been the soloist and section leader at the Presbyterian Church in her home town of Sewickley. Besides the delight of being a weekly host at WQED-FM, she is thrilled to be able to program the music for the station and continues to learn about classical music repertoire. 9 Marianne: Unstaged July 11 Carl Tanner and Danielle Pastin

American tenor Carl Tanner has established his international career performing regularly in the world’s most prestigious opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, Opera National de Paris, Washington National Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Real, Madrid, New National Theatre of Tokyo, and the Liceu de Barcelona amongst others. Recent and upcoming performances include the title role of Otello on opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, a return to Grange Park Festival for The Maid of Pskov, the San Diego Opera and Opera Carolina for Aida, a debut with the Gerencia Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro Prado del Rey (RTVE) in Madrid, Canio with Opera North Carolina, Turandot with The Pacific Symphony, and a return to the Metropolitan Opera. His repertory also includes such roles as Radames (Aida), Chénier (Andrea Chénier), Moby Dick (Moby Dick), Hermann (Pique Dame), Don José (Carmen), Canio (I Pagliacci), Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana), Calaf (Turandot), Des Grieux (Manon Lescaut), Dick Johnson (La fanciulla del West), Cavaradossi (Tosca), and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), just to name a few. On the concert stage he has performed diverse repertoire prestigious symphony orchestras including the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Spoleto USA Festival and the Kasugai Symphony Orchestra in Japan.

Praised by Opera News as having “one of the most sheerly beautiful voices on the scene today,” soprano Danielle Pastin continues to earn critical acclaim for her engagements across the country. This season, Danielle was presented in solo recital at the Four Arts Society as well as performed the roles of Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) with Palm Beach Opera and Cio-Cio-San (Madame Butterfly) with Virginia Opera and Knoxville Opera. Canceled performances for this season include: Micaela (Carmen) with Pittsburgh Opera, Soprano Soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Glacier Symphony Orchestra, and Nedda (Pagliacci) with Pittsburgh Festival Opera. Past engagements include Nedda (Pagliacci) at the Metropolitan Opera; Masha (Enemies, A Love Story) with Kentucky Opera; Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) with Opera Maine; the world premiere of Robert Paterson’s Three Way at Nashville Opera and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Ben Moore’s Enemies, A Love Story (Masha) at Palm Beach Opera; Henry Mollicone’s Gabriel’s Daughter (Lucinda) at Central City Opera; and Markus Fagerudd’s Free Will (Gazardiel) at Savonlinna Opera Festival. Highlights of Pastin’s additional performance credits include her 2011 Metropolitan Opera debut in The Queen of Spades (Masha); the Met’s production of Carmen (Frasquita) in 2012 and 2013; the East Coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath (Rosasharn), Cosi fan Tutte (Fiordiligi), Otello (Desdemona), and Le Nozze di Figaro (Countess Almaviva) with Pittsburgh Opera; and La bohème (Mimì) at Royal Albert Hall, Santa Fe Opera, Manitoba Opera, Nashville Opera, and Arizona Opera, among others. For more information, visit www.daniellepastin.com. 10 Marianne: Unstaged July 18 Robert Chafin, Rob Frankenberry, Nancy Maultsby, and Maria Spacagna

Chafin Frankenberry Maultsby Spacagna

Tenor Robert Chafin has earned international acclaim for his drama and versatility on the opera and concert stages. The Virginia native debuted in Europe in La boheme and then received ensemble engagements with the National Theater in Mannheim, the State Theater of Freiburg, and the State Opera of Hannover. Beginning his career with the major roles of Mozart and Rossini, Chafin has since accumulated over 70 operas in his repertoire and has branched out into more heroic roles, including Apollo (Daphne), Max (Der Freischütz), Erik (Der Fliegende Holländer), Midas (Die Liebe der Danae), Enée (Les Troyens), Don José (Carmen), Laca (Jenufa), Menelas (Die Ägyptische Helena) and the title roles in Don Carlo, Idomeneo, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Recently, Chafin has made several role debuts, including the title role in Don Carlo for the Staatsoper Hannover, his Covent Garden Royal Opera House and Salzburg Festival debut with Ricardo Muti in Die Zauberflöte, and the title role in Les Contes d'Hoffmann for the Wiesbaden Staatsoper. He has made guest appearances in these and other roles at New York City Opera, Carnegie Hall, Deutsche Oper, Berliner Philharmonie, and the Salzburg Summer Festival, among others. He has earned international acclaim for his operatic recordings of Franz Schreker (Flammen and Christophorus), Richard Strauss (Die Liebe der Danae), and Leonard Bernstein (Candide), as well as recordings of Haase's Ruggiero, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, songs by Stravinsky and the Hindemith Oratorio (Das Unafuhörliche). In addition to his 2012-2013 appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice at Virginia Tech, Chafin joined West Virginia University’s voice faculty in the School of Music in 2015.

American mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby is in demand by opera companies and orchestras throughout the world. Her unique vocal timbre and insightful musicianship allow her to pursue a repertoire extending from the operas of Monteverdi and Handel to recent works by John Adams. She regularly performs the major heroines of nineteenth-century French, Italian, and German opera and the great symphonic masterpieces.Highlights of Nancy Maultsby’s future and recent seasons include performances as Genevieve in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Los Angeles Opera, the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as at Cincinnati Symphony. At the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ms. Maultsby performed the role of Julia in Lou Harrison’s Young Caesar and Bianca in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of The Rape of Lucretia. Ms. Maultsby also performed Handel’s Messiah with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Indianapolis Symphony, and Verdi’s Requiem with the Florida Orchestra, Akron Symphony, and Eugene Symphony. Ms. Maultsby was also featured in performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the San Antonio Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and a return to Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Ježibaba in Dvořák’s Rusalka. Ms. Maultsby, a North Carolina native, is a graduate of Westminster Choir College and was a graduate student at Indiana University School of Music. Among numerous other awards, she is the winner of the Marian Anderson Award and the Martin E. Segal Award. She is on voice faculty at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio.

Soprano Maria Spacagna has been a regular guest artist at many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera Festival, Teatro alla Scala, Arena di Verona, Teatro San Carlo, the Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago, the Spoleto Festival, the Zurich Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Canadian Opera, Shanghai Grand Opera, Capetown Opera of South Africa, and many others. She was the first American-born artist to perform the role of Madama Butterfly at La Scala. She has performed more than 40 roles in her career, such as Violetta, Gilda, Desdemona, Luisa Miller, Amelia Boccanegra, Mimi, Liu, Tosca, Micaela, Marguerite and Rusalka. In concert, Maria Spacagna has appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Chorale and Orchestra of Perth (Australia), the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Toronto Symphony, among others. Ms. Spacagna is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where she received a Bachelor of Music in Voice and a Master of Music in Voice with Distinction. She was a member of the Juilliard Opera Center at the Juilliard School of Music. In competitions, she was a second prize winner of the Busseto Verdi Competition in Italy, and the Paris International Voice Competition, and was a New York regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Ms. Spacagna is a faculty member of V.O.I.C.Experience, a training program for emerging professional singers. Presently, she is Associate Professor of Voice at Carnegie Mellon University School of Fine Arts.

11 Marianne: Unstaged July 25 Christine Goerke and Alexandra Loutsion

Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Maggio Musical Fiorentino, and the Saito Kinen Festival, among others. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, starting with the Mozart and Handel heroines and now earning critical acclaim for the dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. She has received praise for her portrayals of the title roles in Elektra, Turandot, and Ariadne auf Naxos, Brünnhilde in the Ring Cycle, Kundry in Parsifal, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Leonora in Fidelio, Eboli in Don Carlos, The Dyer’s Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Cassandre in Les Troyens, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Alice in Falstaff, and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmelites. This season, Ms. Goerke’s many engagements included Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, the complete Ring Cycle at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Elektra at the Vienna State Opera, and performances of Act II of Tristan und Isolde with the National Symphony Orchestra. Next season she returns to the Metropolitan Opera to sing her first fully staged performances of Tristan und Isolde and to the Houston Grand Opera for Parsifal. Ms. Goerke was the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker Award, the 2015 Musical America Vocalist of the Year Award, and the 2017 Opera News Award.

Hailed as "fearless" (Opera News) and “masterful” (Tulsa World), Alexandra Loutsion continues to be recognized for her passionate performances as a rising star on the operatic stage. Ms. Loutsion’s 2019-2020 season includes her role and company debut with Minnesota Opera singing the title role in Strauss’ Elektra, a return to Pittsburgh Opera singing the title role in Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas, a debut with Austin Opera and return to Palm Beach Opera singing the title role in Puccini’s Turandot. Last season, she made her international debut with Canadian Opera Company singing the Overseer and covering the title role of Strauss’ Elektra, offered a “career-defining interpretation” of Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore with Central City Opera, and debuted as Turandot with New Orleans Opera. She recently debuted with San Francisco Opera singing the Overseer in Elektra and covering Turandot, and sang the title role in Puccini’s Tosca with Palm Beach Opera and Wolf Trap Opera with the National Symphony Orchestra. On the concert stage, Ms. Loutsion has sung the soprano solo in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Santa Fe Symphony and the Academy Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh, as well as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Cathedral Choral Society, West Virginia Symphony, Syracuse Symphoria, and Erie Philharmonic. She recently represented the USA as a quarterfinalist in the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona, Spain, and holds degrees from Ithaca College and the University of Southern California. 12 Pit Crew: Singer-Free Sundays July 12

Beo String Quartet Concert program to be announced during performance

Beo exists as a 21st century quartet by directing the future of the art through original music and projects; engaging listeners through entertainment and thoughtful demonstration; performing live, in any venue, the masterpieces of the string quartet literature; collaborating with living composers to showcase the music of our time; and participating in our modern global culture through a strong social media presence. Now in its sixth season, Beo has performed over 100 concert works in the US and Europe—including over 30 world premieres. In addition to its many recordings, music videos, and arrangements of covers, Beo regularly performs original works and projects—repertoire that you cannot hear any other ensemble perform. As educators, Beo has earned a reputation for its thoughtfully-crafted presentations—disguised as entertainment—each designed to teach chamber music skills and a love for classical music to students ranging from complete beginners to pre-professionals alike. Through its educational tours of elementary, middle, and high schools, its short-term residencies at colleges and universities, and its annual residency at Dakota Chamber Music, Beo has shared these unique, engaging experiences with more than 3,000 students to date. Beo is very involved in the contemporary music scene and holds an annual residency with the Charlotte New Music Festival each summer. In partnership with the festival, Beo hosts an annual Composition Competition. Recordings of the winning works can be found on beostringquartet.com alongside other contemporary works. Stay in touch with all things Beo by subscribing to the handle @beostringquartet on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and SoundCloud.

13 Pit Crew: Singer-Free Sundays July 19 PianOpera!

Rob Frankenberry, Sky Lee, Walter Morales and Ruiran Xun

Overture to The Barber of Seville Gioacchino Rossini/Arnold Schoenberg

Sky Lee, Ruiran Xun

Orpheus’ Lament and Dance of the Blessed Spirits Cristoph Willibald Gluck/Wilhelm Kempff

Walter Morales

Waltz from Faust Charles Gounod/Franz Liszt

Sky Lee

Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville G. Rossini/A. Schoenberg

Walter Morales, Rob Frankenberry

Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana Pietro Mascagni/J.A. Anschütz

Ruiran Xun

Welcome to the Hotel Darlington from Night Caps R. Frankenberry (Introduction-Tango-Bossa Nova-Barcarolle-Chorale)

Rob Frankenberry

Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre Richard Wagner/Camille Chevillard

Sky Lee, Ruiran Xun, Walter Morales, Rob Frankenberry

14 Pit Crew: Singer-Free Sundays PianOpera!

Frankenberry Morales Lee Xun

A South Korea-born pianist, Sky Haneul Lee is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California where she studied the Keyboard Collaborative Arts under Alan L. Smith. During her time at USC, she received the Keyboard Collaborative Arts Ensemble Award, Keyboard Collaborative Arts Department Award and Gwendolyn Koldofsky Scholarship. Also, she collaborated extensively with USC Thornton Opera for productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, and Handel’s Alcina as well as for LA premiere production of The Place Where You Started by Mark Weiser, USC Professor in Composition. She spent the last summer at Musiktheater Bavaria in Germany as a Collaborative Pianist Fellow in opera studio, and she is excited to join Indianapolis Opera as a Resident Artist from this fall in 2020. She is a winner of the NSAL Instrumental Music Competition and American Protégé Instrumental Competition of Romantic Music, which led to a performance at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Lee earned a Master's Degree and Performer Diploma in Piano Performance at Indiana University where she served as an Associate Instructor and a Collaborative Pianist at IU String Academy.

Ruiran Xun is a rising junior at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in chemistry/computer science and minoring in collaborative piano. As a pianist with the Pittsburgh Festival Opera last summer, she worked in multiple capacities on Mr. Rogers' Operas, Die Liebe der Danae, The Night Flight of Minerva's Owl, and Virgula Divina. At CMU, Ruiran has been a rehearsal pianist for the School of Music (The Light in the Piazza, The Turn of the Screw) and a music director for Scotch'n'Soda Theatre (MAMMA MIA!). She is also frequently involved in student-composed new works. https://ruiran.me/

15 Pit Crew: Singer-Free Sundays July 26

Songs Without Words A flute recital inspired by texts Lindsey Goodman, Flute

Demon/Daemon (2016) Linda Kernohan (b. 1970) suspicion of nakedness for solo flute (2012) Roger Zahab (b. 1957)

“A something in a Summer’s Day” Nancy Galbraith (b. 1951) from Four Nature Canticles (2019)

Rob Frankenberry, Piano

Penelope’s Song for flute and electronics (2013) Judith Shatin (b. 1949)

Flutist Lindsey Goodman is a soloist, recording artist, chamber collaborator, orchestral musician, educator, and clinician. Lindsey has performed solo and chamber concerts, taught masterclasses, and given presentations at countless series, festivals, and universities. She has performed across three continents at Carnegie Hall, Eastman School of Music, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and several Flute Association conventions, among many other venues. A committed advocate for living composers and electroacoustic music, Lindsey is an active commissioner of new works with 150 world premieres to her credit. For over 18 seasons, she performed as solo flutist of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. Her solo albums reach through the sky (New Dynamic Records) and returning to heights unseen (PARMA Recordings) feature all commissioned pieces. Lindsey has given multiple professional recitals in New York City, performed concertos from Mozart to commissioned works in the United States and Canada, and been featured in live and recorded radio broadcasts on stations around the world. Lindsey is principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, adjunct lecturer of flute at Ashland University, Marietta College, and West Virginia State University, and solo flutist of the new music ensemble What Is Noise. She is a founding member of flute quartet PANdemonium4, the Leviathan Trio, and Chrysalis, a singing flutist and singing pianist duo, showcasing her training as a classical mezzo-soprano. A student of Robert Langevin and Walfrid Kujala, Lindsey received degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, and Duquesne University. Visit www.LindseyGoodman.com for more information. 16 Leitmotif: Walking through Wagner July 16 Jane Eaglen, Kevin Ray and Elisabeth Rosenberg

Eaglen Ray Rosenberg

Dramatic soprano Jane Eaglen has enjoyed one of the most formidable reputations in opera for the past two decades. Her performances of roles such as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde; the title roles in Puccini’s Turandot, Bellini’s Norma, and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos; and Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen have earned her acclaim on stages of the leading opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, and l’Opera National de Paris. Other notable roles in her repertoire include the title roles of Tosca and La Gioconda, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera. She has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, and the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals, plus concert performances of Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung with the Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne. Eaglen’s extensive discography includes a number of solo albums for Sony Classical. The complete recording of Wagner’s Tannhäuser conducted by Daniel Barenboim for Teldec earned her a Grammy Award. While continuing to perform, she is active as a teacher, having joined New England Conservatory's voice studio faculty in the 2013-2014 academic year. In addition to her teaching role at NEC, she is cofounder and artistic director of the Wagner Intensive summer program held at Baldwin-Wallace University Conservatory of Music.

Kevin Ray is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Curtis Institute of Music. Last year, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Verdi’s Aida. On the concert stage, he has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, and Phoenix Symphony. In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Kevin is a frequent collaborator with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, last seen in Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Most recently, Kevin created the role of Loud Stone in Matthew Aucoin’s new opera Eurydice in his Los Angeles Opera debut. Upcoming performances include a World Premiere opera by Jennifer Higdon for Opera Philadelphia, and a concert performance of selections from Siegfried and Götterdämmerung with Pittsburgh Festival Opera.

American soprano Elisabeth Rosenberg is earning a reputation as an exciting youngdramatic soprano on the classical scene today. In the 2019-2020 season, Ms.Rosenberg was scheduled to appear with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra singing Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder prior to the pandemic of 2020. Elisabeth is a recent recipient of an Encouragement Grant from the New York Wagner Society and was awarded second place in the Mildred Miller Pittsburgh Festival Opera Competition. In July 2019, Elisabeth made her debut with Pittsburgh Festival Opera singing the role of “Sieglinde” in The Valkyrie to great critical acclaim. Previously at Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Ms. Rosenberg performed excerpts from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Wesendonck Lieder as a featured artist with the Mastersingers Program, led by world-renowned dramatic soprano, Jane Eaglen. Ms. Rosenberg received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her Master’s degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

17 I, Too, Sing A Conversation about the Black Experience in opera July 17 Candace Burgess Creator and Moderator Soprano Candace Burgess is a versatile vocal artist. The Pittsburgh native holds a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Duquesne University and specializes in the styles of opera/classical, jazz, musical theater, and contemporary. Candace is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Vocal Performance at Duquesne University while running her educational recital series called I, Too, Sing: A Celebration of Classical Composers of the African Diaspora. In addition to gigging around the city of Pittsburgh, Candace has participated in two operas: Duquesne University’s 2019 production of Die Fledermaus where she portrayed the role of Sally, and Chicago Summer Opera’s 2018 production of Die Zauberflöte where she played the role of Third Knaben. Additionally, Candace has done some scene work portraying characters such as Zerlina from Don Giovanni, Dorabella from Cosí fan Tutte, Sarah Good from The Crucible, First Wood Spirit from Rusalka, and Gianetta from L’Elisir D’amore. The Panelists

Naomi André Cameron Barnett Thomas W. Douglas

ANQWENIQUE Kevin Short 18 I, Too, Sing A Conversation about the Black Experience in opera Naomi André is Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research focuses on opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race in the US, Europe, and South Africa. Her publications include topics on Italian opera, Schoenberg, women composers, and teaching opera in prisons. Her book, Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (University of Illinois Press, 2018) won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music. Her earlier books include Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006) and Blackness in Opera (2012, co-edited collection). She has edited and contributed to clusters of articles in African Studies and the Journal of the Society for American Music. Currently she is a co-editor for the essay collection African Performance Arts and Political Acts (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming in 2021). She is the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Seattle Opera.

Cameron Barnett holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches middle school English. He’s an editor for Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, and winner of the 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Emerging Artist. His recent work has appeared in The Florida Review, The Minnesota Review, Superstition Review, and IDK Magazine. His first collection, The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water (Autumn House Press) was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award and is the source material for a new song cycle to be premiered in the 2021 Pittsburgh Festival Opera summer season. Cameron’s work explores the complexity of race and the body for a black man in today’s America. Link to his spoken word poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENOLotIHi0

Thomas W. Douglas is a compelling and passionate conductor, having performed more than 400 opera, oratorio, orchestral, and musical theater productions. He is the Artistic Director of the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and the former Music Director of the Newton Symphony in Kansas. Career highlights include conducting Webber's Phantom of the Opera in Basel, Switzerland; Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; the Pittsburgh premiere of the classic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, with live orchestra and chorus; the U.S. premiere of David Chesky's The Agnostic; Ain’t Misbehavin’ in the US and Malaysia; the rousing Carmina Burana Africana; Mozart's Die Zauberflöte; and Don Giovanni with the Neighborhood Opera Co. and an all Black cast. He works regularly as Musical Director at the Music Theater Wichita and has worked with the Anchorage Opera, Pittsburgh's City Theater, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Canton Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Dallas Symphony, River City Brass Band, and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Mr. Douglas has been the recipient of the Mary Jane Teall Award and the Robert Frankle awards for his contribution to theatre in Wichita, KS and Pittsburgh, PA. Thomas has enjoyed the stage roles of Amonasro in Elton John's Aida, Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar, and Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors. He has been a vocal soloist with the River City Brass, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony, Canton Symphony, the and Children's Festival Chorus, and sings frequently with jazz legend Joe Negri in his Mass of Hope. Mr. Douglas is the Director of Opera Studies and the Director of Choral Activities at Carnegie Mellon University.

Pittsburgh native, ANQWENIQUE is an extremely versatile vocalist and educator specializing in opera, classical music, jazz and soul. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Voice Performance from Indiana University of PA. Anqwenique is the founder and director of Groove Aesthetic, a Pittsburgh based multidisciplinary artist collective experimenting with contemporary performance and collaborative processes. She has performed and collaborated with Staycee Pearl Dance Project, Attack Theater, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, David Bernard Romain, Luna Loba Collective/Shey Rivera-Rios, and many others. Anqwenique has been recognized with many awards and opportunities for her creative work. In 2017, she was named “Best Singer” by the Pittsburgh Magazine readers poll, listed among Who's Next in Music by The Incline, and 40 Under 40 by Pittsburgh Magazine and PUMP. She is on the faculty of the Clazz International Music Festival in Arcidosso, Italy. Anqwenique has been very active in the arts and education community as a teaching artist, consultant, program manager, and advisor. Currently, she serves as Director of Programs for Arts Education Collaborative. She is also the Studio Manager of BOOM Concepts, working to provide affordable studio space and resources to artists and creative entrepreneurs.

Versatile American bass-baritone Kevin Short is thrilling audiences around the globe in a wide range of repertoire ranging from the depths of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Monteverdi’s L’Coronazione di Poppea to Verdi’s Attila, Carmen’s Escamillo and Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer. A sampling of his appearances include performances with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and appearances with multiple opera companies, orchestras, and festivals in Europe and Asia, a few of which include Paris’ Opera Comique, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence-France, and festivals in Beijing, China; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Granada, Valencia, and Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Kevin also enjoys an active concert and recital schedule and has worked with the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Kazan Symphony for the opening of the Universiade Games in Kazan, Russia, and the Winter Olympics Festival Orchestra for the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, among many others. Kevin received his training at Morgan State University, B.S., the Curtis Institute of Music, M.M., and the Juilliard School of Music’s American Opera Center. While attending these institutions, he was a prize winner in numerous competitions and garnered many awards, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and Internazionale Concorso per Voce Verdiane, among others. His discography includes a recently released solo CD called Mephistopheles and other Bad Guys and a recording of Otello, both under the Pentatone label. Kevin also sang on a Grammy nominated Naxos recording of L’Enfant et les Sortileges. 19 Composer Spotlight: Mark Adamo July 23

Mark Adamo Derrick R. Brown Rob Frankenberry

Composer-librettist Mark Adamo’s Little Women just received its warmly-received Dutch premiere at Dutch National Opera Academy in January 2020. His most recent opera, Becoming Santa Claus, was commissioned by The Dallas Opera and given its première there December 2015; it was released on DVD/Blu-Ray in December 2017. Becoming Santa Claus succeeded The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (San Francisco Opera, June 2013;) Lysistrata (Houston Grand Opera, 2005; New York City Opera, 2006; Washington National Opera, 2008; and Fort Worth Opera, 2012) and Little Women (Houston Grand Opera, 1998; 130+ international productions; CD release, 2002; Blu-ray/DVD release, 2010.) Other notable commissions include Aristotle, for Thomas Hampson and the Jupiter String Quartet, by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, for the National Symphony Orchestra (Utah Symphony, 2011); The Racer’s Widow, for New York Festival of Song; August Music, for flute duo and string quartet, for the Constella Festival; and the cantata Late Victorians, for Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, which recorded it on its all-Adamo recording for Naxos, alongside Alcott Music, (a suite from Little Women) and the Overture to Lysistrata. His choral work has been commissioned and performed by Chanticleer, Conspirare, The Esoterics, The Gregg Smith Singers, Choral Arts Society in Washington, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, and The New York Virtuoso Singers. Upcoming: Lysistrata, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, July 2021; and the world premiere of The Lord of Cries for Santa Fe Opera, summer of 2021, which features a libretto by Adamo (after Stoker and Euripides) to a score by John Corigliano. www.markadamo.com

Based in Dallas, Texas, Derrick R. Brown works throughout the DFW metroplex and abroad as an up-and-coming stage director, performer, and musicological lecturer. As director he recently presented Gianni Schicchi and Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor; a new production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, and made his debut in film presenting an ambitious work bringing Bach’s Cantata 82, Ich habe genug. No stranger to the stage, Derrick was a part of PFO’s 2018 lineup as Schaunard in the touring cast of La Bohème Warhola and as a featured soloist in the Bernstein on Broadway revue. Recent performance credits in both opera and musical theatre include The Wolf & Cinderella’s Prince (Into the Woods), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Dick McGann (Weill’s Street Scene), and Mr. Lindquist (Sondheim’s A Little Night Music). Derrick tours locally throughout the DFW area with the contemporary Verdigris Ensemble, bringing new music to communities in collaboration with other local artists and media. He gives lectures and pre-show talks for local chamber groups and provides stage movement coachings to students and professionals. Derrick has a passion for bringing music to new and interesting spaces to raise appreciation for classical music; he has been involved in concerts in private residences, outdoor gardens, shopping malls, movie theaters, art galleries, and has been a part of a concert series held in convenience stores. Derrick received his Masters in Opera performance May 2018 and received recognition as the Most Outstanding Master’s Student in Opera Studies that year.

20 Putting it Together: The Hans and Leslie Fleischner Online Young Artists Program July 24 Robert Frankenberry enjoys a multi-faceted relationship with music as a singer, pianist, conductor, orchestrator, director, and even occasionally as a composer. On stage, he has performed a wide range of roles including Mozart (Amadeus), John Adams (1776), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), the tile roles in Don Carlo, The Tales of Hoffmann, Faust, and Willy Wonka, and Orson Welles in Daron Hagen’s film- opera Orson Rehearsed. At the piano, he regularly performs works by living composers with such groups as Pittsburgh’s IonSound and AnimeBOP: New York City’s The Phoenix Players and PRISM Players; and multi-city entelechron and Chrysalis Duo. He has served on the coaching/accompanying staff at Seton Hill, Duquesne, Carnegie Mellon, and Point Park; the voice faculty at Mercyhurst and Point Park; and the Theatre Arts faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, where he provided vocal direction for Robert Pitt Stages’ productions of Nine, Peter & The Starcatcher, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; musical Frankenberry, direction for Hair and Little Shop of Horrors; and direction for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Director Bee and Parade. He has just returned to Pittsburgh full-time following two years as visiting Music Director for the opera program at the University of North Texas. Robert has been significantly involved with Pittsburgh Festival Opera for 20 years, contributing creative and musical direction for The Tales of Hoffmann – Retold; Carmen: the Gypsy; Orpheus & Eurydice (both Gluck and Gordon), Shining Brow (Fallingwater version); Night Caps (also contributing as a composer, Night Caps International, Roger Zahab’s Happy Hour, Gilda Lyons’ A New Kind of Fallout, Dwayne Fulton’s A Gathering of Sons, and the world-premiere live-performance adaptations of Mr. Rogers’ Operas. He can be heard singing and playing on the Naxos, Albany, New World Records, Roven Records, New Dynamic Records, and Innova labels. 2020 Young Artists

Born and raised in the greater Chicagoland area, Maureen Brabec is a soprano living in Boston, MA. She is currently an apprentice at the Boston University Opera Institute. In her first year there, she sang Elaine O’Neill in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening and Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. She made her professional debut last summer singing First Lady in The Magic Flute with Opera Maine. During her graduate studies, she performed these roles with Opera UCLA: Sidia Gruenfeld in Janice Hamer’s Lost Childhood (West Coast premiere); La Condesa in Carla Lucero’s Juana; Susan B. Anthony in Thomson’s The Mother of Us All. In June 2018, she covered the role of Prima Donna/Ariadne in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at Miami Music Festival conducted by Bradley Moore. She currently studies with Penelope Bitzas and her other teachers include Neil Semer, Vladimir Chernov, and Arianna Zukerman.

Natalie Marie Butchko studied Vocal Performance at Kent State University, where she recently graduated in May with her Masters. Some recent appearances have been with Kent State Opera as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Baba in Menotti’s The Medium. She was also seen in Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s 2019 Summer season as the streetside singer/secretary in the premiere of Mister Rogers’ Operas: “Spoon Mountain” and “Windstorm in Bubbleland” and chorus in Die Liebe der Danae. Past significant roles were Ma Moss and Mrs. Splinters in The Tender Land, Prince Orlofsky in Die 8 Fledermaus, and Celaeno in The Harpies. Natalie feels blessed to be able to join Pittsburgh Festival Opera for another season. Finally, she would like to express thanks to her amazing family, friends, and professors for their never failing support.

21 Autumn Capocci is a mezzo-soprano hailing from Buffalo, New York. She is currently a Master’s student at the University of North Texas, where she has performed the roles of Zita in Gianni Schicchi and Lapák the dog in The Cunning Little Vixen. Last summer, she performed in Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s Fight for the Right series as Hortense in Virgula Divina. She received her Bachelor of Music Education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. While there, she performed in the chorus of The Tender Land with the Crane Opera Ensemble, as well as in the chorus of the world-premiere opera SHOT! with the Nickel City Opera Company.

Sadie Cheslak is a well rounded vocalist who has been described as “a fine musician with a rare low voice”. She has previously sung with Lyric Theatre Illinois, Lyric Opera of the North, and Fargo- Moorhead Opera Company, singing and covering the roles of Kate and Ruth (Pirates of Penzance), Maddalena (Rigoletto), and Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors). Sadie continues to sing the role of Fairy Godmother/Madame (Cinderella) with the Lyric Opera of the North this past fall and again in February. Sadie is an experienced alto soloist and has a passion for concert work as well as singing in new opera such as Beth Morrison Project and Pulitzer Prize-winning work titled p r i s m by Ellen Reid where she sang and defined the role of Lumee. Sadie has her Master of Music from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and her Bachelor of Music from Concordia College.

Soprano Lindsey Chinn, a Tennessee native, is a dynamic and well informed performer and a recent graduate of the Mannes School of Music. Her upcoming engagements include the Eleanor McCollum competition at Houston Grand Opera and Dika/Alekto in Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata with Pittsburgh Festival Opera. In summer 2020, Lindsey will be joining the Pittsburgh Festival Opera as a young artist. Past engagements include Gossip 2 in The Ghosts of Versailles with Chautauqua Opera, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene with Mannes Opera, Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto with Lighthouse Opera, and Galatea in Acis and Galatea and Soprano 1 in Hydrogen Jukebox with Carnegie Mellon Opera. In summer 2019, Lindsey was a young artist at Chautauqua Opera. She has also attended IVAI in New York, AIMS in Graz, and the Savannah Voice Festival. Lindsey graduated in 2019 with her MM from Mannes School of Music, and she holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Lindsey is a student of Beth Roberts and Joshua Greene.

George Cole is a stage director from Tyler, Texas and is now based in the New Jersey area. He recently graduated with an MM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and holds a BM in Voice Performance from Texas Tech University. George has assisted on many opera productions, including Massenet's Cendrillon, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Le nozze di Figaro, and Britten's The Turn of the Screw. He has also assisted two world premieres, Frazier's Breath of Life and Fishman's MARiE BEGiNS. His directing credits include Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night for soprano Sarah Thomas as well as scene work from a wide range of operatic literature.

Heralded as “delightful, with the right note of playfulness and a beautiful voice that projected clearly into the large auditorium” by Cleveland Plain Dealer, soprano Jessica Lynn Crowell has begun launching a professional singing career. Jessica has had the pleasure of performing a world premiere of Beneath Suspicion, by award-winning composer Jesse Ayers, and was named a semi-finalist for the American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for it. Ms. Crowell became a three-time Voices of Canton competition winner while completing her Bachelor of Arts at Malone University. While a member of Malone Opera Theatre, she was featured in roles including Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Ohio audiences have also seen her as Magda in Menotti’s The Consul with Nightingale Opera Theatre’s Young Artist Program. Ms. Crowell is currently continuing her studies through The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

22 A native of Orlando, Florida, Brent Doucette will be featured as a Young Artist in Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s 2020 season. This past year, Mr. Doucette was a Studio Artist with Opera Orlando, where he was seen as Don Basilio and Don Curzio in their mainstage production of Le Nozze di Figaro, Mike in the Florida premiere of Peter Rothstein’s All is Calm, and Trin in The Girl of the Golden West. While at the University of Michigan, he performed in Alcina (Oronte) and Candide (Vanderdendur), as well as the roles of Hank and Lou in The Grapes of Wrath with Michigan Opera Theatre. Brent is also a very passionate singer of German Lieder, and frequently presents song recitals. Mr. Doucette holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master of Music from the University of Michigan.

Taylor-Alexis DuPont is a young and engaging Mezzo-Soprano from Orlando, Florida. Since graduating with her Masters in Voice from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University while studying with Denyce Graves, Taylor-Alexis has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, the Ising International Young Artist Festival in Beijing and Suzhou, China, the Glimmerglass Festival, Prototype Festival, Sarasota Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, Opera Orlando, First Coast Opera, Christman Opera and City Lyric Opera. Performance highlights include Cendrillon (Le Prince Charmant), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), Ruslan and Ludmilla (Prince Ratmir), The Snow Maiden (Lel) and Pinocchio (Pinocchio). In addition to performing standard repertoire, Ms. DuPont has premiered new works in collaboration with composers such as Theodore Christman’s Unfolded (Josette). Earlier this year Taylor-Alexis performed as an ensemble member and soloist cover in the Metropolitan Opera’s wildly successful production of Porgy and Bess.

Lauren Lenz is a stage manager and assistant director specializing in opera productions. She has worked with companies including Toledo Opera, Dayton Opera, and Opera Steamboat and has worked on eleven productions with Detroit-based company Opera MODO since 2017. Upcoming credits include assistant stage managing at Omaha Opera for San Giovanni Battista and Turandot at Opera Grand Rapids, as well as directing work at Druid City Opera Workshop and Pittsburgh Festival Opera. Lauren received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Oakland University in December 2016 where she studied as a vocalist under Dr. Edith Diggory.

Baritone and Philadelphia native, Matthew Maisano is thrilled to return to Pittsburgh Festival Opera. In 2016, Matthew was a featured artist singing Morbio in Die schweigsame Frau, Baptista in Kiss Me, Kate!, and covering Escamillo in Carmen. Other credits include: Chorus is Prokoviev’s The Love For Three Oranges and Verdi’s Requiem (Opera Philadelphia), Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Schaunard (cover) in La Bohème (Natchez Festival of Music), Eugene Onegin in Eugene Onegin (Russian Opera Workshop), Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (Wilmington Concert Opera & Cleveland Institute of Music Opera), Pandolfe in Cendrillon (Miami Music Festival), The Strong Man in Malcom Fox's Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing (Penn Square Music Festival), Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief and The First Step Sister in Warren Martin’s The True Story of Cinderella (Opera Tutti!), Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Delaware Valley Opera Company), Don Magnifico in Cinderella (Children’s Opera Box), Huascar in Les indes Galantes (Amherst Early Music Festival), Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, and Albert in Werther (Temple University Opera). For more information, please visit www.matthewmaisano.com.

23 Baritone Dorian McCall has been described as a very compelling singing actor with a rich and flexible voice, recognized as having great style, musically and physically, on stage and is a 2018 and 2019 MONC Encouragement Award recipient, 2018 Naftzger Vocal Division winner, 2017 Career Bridges Encouragement Grant recipient as well as 2nd alternate Texoma region representative at the 2018 NATSAA competition. He is currently supplementing the Chicago Symphony and Lyric Opera of Chicago choruses. Dorian has been invited to premier with Pittsburgh Festival Opera in Adamo’s Lysistrata as Leonidas, Transgressive Theatre Opera in a concert presentation of Menotti’s The Consul in the new role of John Sorel, Colonel in The Falling and the Rising (Petite Opera Productions), and with Haymarket Opera as a cover for Gubbins and the Dragon in Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley, and Seneca in L'incoronazione di Poppea as well as touring with Opera for the Young as Pirate King and General Stanley in Pirates of Penzance.

Indiana native, tenor Myles Pinder has been hailed for a voice that is “deep and warm.” The 2019-20 season is a season of debuts for Myles. He made his premiere with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah, UNT Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Don José in Carmen, and Leo Hubbard in Blitzstein’s Regina. Myles’ operatic roles include Sam in Susannah, Martin in The Tender Land, Ecclitico in Il Mondo della Luna, Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S Pinafore, and Alfred in Die Fledermaus. His previous concert works include Mozart’s Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, DuBois’ Seven Last Words of Christ, Haydn’s Theresienmesse, and Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb. Myles is currently an Associate Professor of Voice at Richland College and doctoral candidate in Voice Performance at the University of North Texas. He holds an MM from Southern Methodist University and a BA from Butler University.

Born and raised in Cartersville, Georgia, Emily Roberts grew up with a curiosity for music and went on to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Young Harris College in the mountains of North Georgia where her love for opera and the classical voice was realized. She competed and placed in several vocal competitions, as well as starred in productions at her college and in the surrounding communities, including performing with the Rome Symphony Orchestra.

Schyler Sheltrown is a soprano hailing from Mattawan, Michigan. Heralded as one of “the country’s most vibrant up-and-coming singers” and “a lovely lyric soprano” by the Toledo Blade for her title role in The Ballad of Baby Doe, you have likely heard her in performances across the Great Lakes Region. These performances include the roles of Pamina in The Magic Flute, Musetta in La boheme, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Romilda in Serse, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, The Page in Rigoletto, and Mrs. Hayes in Susannah. She has also performed as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem, and Debussy’s La damoiselle élue. She also had the pleasure of voicing Joan of Arc as a soprano soloist in Voices of Light with the Rackham Choir at the Detroit Film Theatre. She has received national recognition, gaining an Encouragement Award in the Michigan District of the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions in 2019, First Place in the Scholarship Division of the National Opera Association's solo voice competition (2014), as well as numerous other competitions and prizes. She is delighted to perform with Pittsburgh Festival Opera this season!

24 2020 Young Artist Apprentices

Colin Aikins, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a tenor studying in the voice program at the Curtis Institute of Music with Julia Faulkner of the Chicago Lyric Opera. Credits include: Trouble in Tahiti (Trio), Sweeney Todd (The Beadle), Don Giovanni (Chorus), The Barber of Seville (Almaviva –cover), The Barber of Seville (Count Almaviva - cover & chorus), Albert Herring (Mr. Upfold), and La clemenza di Tito (Chorus) for the Curtis Opera Theater. He performed Falstaff (Fenton) and Le nozze di Figaro (Chorus) for the Aspen Opera Center and scenes from Falstaff (Fenton). Colin achieved First Place in the 2015 Schmidt Vocal Competition at the National Opera Center in New York City. He was the winner of 2016 Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist Competition. Colin was a 2017 Classical Singer Vocal Competition National First Place winner where he also received a full scholarship from the University of Miami Frost School of Music to attend the prestigious Salzburg Festival in Austria in 2018. He performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC as winner of the 2017 American Protégé International Voice Competition and was named a 2018 Vocal Finalist in the National Young Arts Competition performing in Miami’s New World Symphony Center in January 2018. As a 2018 NPR From the Top Winner, he performed at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas. He has attended the Aspen Music Festival, the Frost School of Music Salzburg Program, the Chautauqua Institution Voice Program and the Curtis Young Artist Voice Program.

Anissa Clay is a Sophomore Vocal Performance Major at Baldwin Wallace University. She is under the tutelage of Dr. JR Fralick. Anissa is also the Fundraising Chair for Bella Voce, a Vocal Performance group on campus. She graduated from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School as a Voice Major. Ms. Clay has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as a member of the PSO Student Chorale and as a member of the Junior Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. Anissa was a high school apprentice with the Pittsburgh Opera, where she has performed in two mini-lecture recitals. Anissa is an award-winning author of the novel The God Conception, which she wrote in 2015.

Megan Jones is a colorful and expressive soprano whose love for poetry and art inspires her to bring joy to audiences. She was the 2018 concerto competition winner at Ithaca College, where she performed “Où va la jeune Hindoue” from Lakmé with the Ithaca College Orchestra, conducted by Octavio Mas-Arocas. Megan sang the lead role of Laetita in Ithaca's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief. After receiving the Roberta Peters Scholarship and a BM in vocal performance at Ithaca, she is currently a first-year in Bard College’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program. She has performed as the soprano soloist for Bach’s Trauerode Cantata with Bard Baroque Ensemble in addition to the role of Laurie in the devised opera Rest in Pieces directed by Stephanie Blythe. Megan hopes to continue sharing stories, breaking boundaries, and bringing people together with music.

25 2020 OYAP Faculty

Mark Trawka joined Pittsburgh Opera as Director of Musical Studies for the prestigious Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Training Program in the 2003-04 season. In the 2006-07 season, he also took on the position of Chorus Master. Mr. Trawka coaches and performs with the Resident Artists and has also accompanied renowned mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti in her Pittsburgh recital appearances. He has been a member of the music staff at Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera and Portland Opera (Oregon), where he was principal pianist and assistant chorus master. Mr. Trawka has served as coach/accompanist at Chautauqua Opera and at Glimmerglass Opera for many summer seasons. In the summer of 2006, he was director of the resident artist program at Berkshire Opera. Educated at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California, Mr. Trawka began his operatic career in the Houston Opera Studio and in San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. Mark Trawka’s faculty position is generously sponsored by Eileen and John Olmsted and co-sponsored by the Hollinshead Family in memory of Sylvia Hollinshead and the glorious Pittsburgh Opera Chorus.

26 Rusalka: A Mermaid's Tale July 25 Adrianna M. Cleveland is a Pittsburgh Native. A member of both AEA (Actor’s Equity Association) and AGMA (American Guild of Musical Arts), she has had the pleasure of performing in many operas and musicals. She is currently a section leader in both choirs at East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Adrianna has had the luxury of performing with Pittsburgh Festival Opera (nee Opera Theater of Pittsburgh) for the past 16 years. Prior Credits include: Mister Rogers’ Operas (Queen Mumsiebelle/ Theresa the Bubble Seller), and A Gathering of Sons (Violet Powers). She has also had the pleasure of performing roles with Pittsburgh Opera such as The Long Walk (Perneatha Cunningham-Evans), Ensemble roles in such operas as the world premiere of The Summer King, Tosca, Don Pasquale, and Aida. Some of her favorite theater credits include: Wanda in Beehive: The 60’s Musical (Cleveland Great Lakes Theatre, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and Rusalka Idaho Shakespeare Festival), Effie White in Dreamgirls (Pittsburgh Musical Theater), and Ensemble/u/s Clara/Serena in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Broadway’s First National Tour). Ms. Cleveland received her Bachelor’s of Music in Voice from Baldwin Wallace University and Conservatory of Music. While studying at BW, under the tutelage of world renowned Heldentenor, Dr. Timothy Mussard, she performed such roles as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Mother (Passing Strange), Mimi/ “Seasons of Love” soloist (First Ever in Repertory La Boheme and Rent). Ivan Plazačić is a freelance videographer and photographer. He holds a Master’s Degree in Voice Performance as well as an Advanced Studio Production Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University. His work includes videography and photography for many classical music and opera companies and festivals across Europe and the United States. Currently, he holds a position of an audio engineer and editor at CONSEQUENTIAL podcast; shift leader at Carnegie Mellon School of Music Recording Services, and audio engineer for Metro 21 podcast. His performance career started in 2013 with a debut role of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at Madlenianum opera and theatre in Belgrade and continued with: L’elisir d’amore (Belcore), Les Misérables (Lesgle), and Wiener Blut (Ypsheim fon Gindelbach). His collaboration with Operosa Opera Festival started with Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio) and continued with Cosi fan tutte (Guglielmo); La Serva Padrona (Uberto) and Carmen (Zuniga). He was a scholar at University of Sea King Mozarteum summer program and International Vocal Arts Institute in New York, where he portrayed the role of Prime Minister Colline in Leoncavallo’s La Boheme. His work at CMU resulted in various operatic projects such as Il Matrimonio Film Editor Segreto (CMU and Baldwin Wallace University), Trouble in Tahiti, Le Nozze di Figaro, and a Pittsburgh reading of Peter Andrew Hilliard’s opera, The Last American Hammer. Other work includes a piano reduction for the opera Frau Schindler by Thomas Morse, an arrangement for the opera Higher by Milica Ilić and La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Paisiello. Alexa Zeremenko is a soprano from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2012, she made her operatic debut as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at Mercyhurst University where she completed her Bachelor’s degree. While at Mercyhurst, Zeremenko also had the pleasure of singing the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro and Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly as well as many other roles in operas and scenes programs. In 2018, she joined Opera in the Ozarks as an Emerging Artist singing the role of Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus. Zeremenko reprised her role of Rosalinda at Michigan State Univerisity’s Opera Theatre where she also sang Mrs. Maurrant in Street Scene and Lucilla in La scala di seta. Since graduating with her Master’s degree from Michigan State University, Alexa has joined Pittsburgh Festival Opera for Rusalka: A Mermaid’s Tale as Jezibaba and the Foreign Princess. She will again join Pittsburgh Jezibaba Festival Opera to sing the Woodbird in Wagner’s Siegfried. Foreign Princess Tenor Kevin Adamik is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Adamik holds degrees from Slippery Rock University and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has been a participant in the Indianapolis Opera’s Resident Artist Program, an emerging artist at Opera in the Ozarks, Chicago Summer Opera, and NAPA Music Festival. His role credits include Tito in La Clemenza di Tito, Bénédict in Béatrice et Bénédict, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Albert in Albert Herring, Oronte in Alcina, Venditore in Il Tabarro, Frantz and Spalanzani in The Tales of Hoffmann Don Basilio, and Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro. Kevin was a member of the Pittsburgh Opera chorus in productions of Aida, Le nozze di Figaro, L’elisir d’amore, La Bohème, and Moby Dick. Mr. Adamik has been a soloist with the Edgewood Symphony Prince Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra. He has also performed with Chatham Concert Opera and frequently performs with ARIA 412. 27 Rusalka: A Mermaid's Tale Emily Gallagher, soprano, has been seen in the role of Nada in Ana Sokolović’s Svada at the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia, and as Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica at the KammerOper in Vienna, Austria. Other credits include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto at Carnegie Mellon University, Adele (cover) in Die Fledermaus with the Vienna Summer Music Festival, and as a member of the 2018 Janeiac Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina. Emily is passionate about performing contemporary music, and has been a part of multiple world premieres, most recently singing the role of Mary in The School of Marital Happiness with the Vienna Summer Music Festival. She originated the role of Mother in the world premiere of Elliot Yokum and Sarah Barker’s Starsong, part of the Compōs-it Opera Festival, and the role of Diana in Ramin Akhavijou and Urchin Lauren D’Errico’s Languagemachine with Pittsburgh Co-Opera. Upcoming engagements include Dater #22 Puppeteer in the Brevard Music Center’s Zoom Speed Dating Tonight! and Soprano in Caleb Glickman’s My Neighbor Figaro, for which she also wrote the libretto. This opera will be presented on Opera Vision in August 2020 Production as part of a series of mini-operas written, produced, and performed during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Emily Supervisor is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance.

An avid performer of works ranging from Baroque to Avant-Garde, Joseph Sandler is a baritone based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Recent engagements include the world premieres of Ivan Plazacic and Alex Taylor’s PETROV in the 2018 Compos-It Opera Festival and Marina Lopez and D.T. Burns’ Not Our First American in a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Opera. Between these two productions, he sang Simon in Handel’s Judas Maccabeus at Carnegie Mellon University in a production honoring the lives of those lost in the Tree of Life Shooting of 2018. While at CMU he could also be seen performing with the university’s Contemporary Music Ensemble as well as with the Exploded Ensemble, CMU’s experimental music ensemble. Other past performances include the titular role CMU’s production of Le nozze di Figaro, Argante in Handel’s Urchin Rinaldo, and Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with the Janiec Opera Company. With fellow musicians Caleb Glickman and Emily Gallagher, he co-founded Perfect Harmony at Carnegie Mellon. Perfect Harmony is an Puppeteer organization committed to creating a sustainable future for classical music by bringing new life to old works and Audio Engineer commissioning new ones. Past productions include a site-specific staged performance of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, Production and benefit recitals raising money for various causes and charitable organizations including VH1 Save the Music and UNESCO. Supervisor

Seamus Ricci is a director, educator, and performer alongside the title of Director of Education for Pittsburgh Festival Opera. Seamus started training at Indiana University of Pennsylvania achieving a B.S. in Music Education and a B.F.A. in Vocal Performance, and then later obtaining a M.S. in Elementary & Early Childhood Education from Duquesne University. From 2007 to 2014, Seamus worked as preschool teacher for Pittsburgh Public Schools, then in 2014 had a director debut with Neighborhood Opera Company directing Don Giovanni with an All-Black cast. It was at this time that Seamus developed a new trajectory as a director, assistant director, and stage manager while maintaining involvement with education programs through theater companies. These experiences included working for City Theatre of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, Neighborhood Opera Company, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Opera North, Bel Cantanti Director Opera Company, Opera NEO, Knoxville Opera, Indianapolis Opera, and Opera San Jose. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Puppet Designer Seamus can also be seen as his alter ego Deep Violet, who is an avid facilitator for charity events in the Pittsburgh community.

Christian Fleming is a freelance scenic and costume designer based in Manhattan. Recent credits include: The Light in the Piazza (Carnegie Mellon), AfterWARDs: Mozart’s Idomeneo Reimagined (Pittsburgh Opera), The Addams Family (A Class Act NY), Bright Star (Central Theater NJ), and Game On! (Pittsburgh CLO). His work was recently featured at Design Showcase West in LA, and Christian is a finalist for the upcoming World Stage Design 2021 conference in Calgary, CA representing the US. Rusalka is Christian’s debut with Pittsburgh Festival Opera.

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