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MSM THEATER Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director presents

OPERA SCENES from The House of Seven Gables, The Harpies, , and

Jonathan Brandani, Conductor Laura Alley, Director

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 | 7:30 PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 | 7:30 PM THE RIVERSIDE THEATRE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 | 7:30 PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 | 7:30 PM THE RIVERSIDE THEATRE

MSM OPERA THEATER Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director

OPERA SCENES

Jonathan Brandani, Conductor Laura Alley, Director Nicolò Sbuelz, Vocal Coach, Pianist, Italian Diction Coach Cory Battey, Vocal Coach and Pianist Kathryn LaBouff, English Diction Coach Nils Neubert, German Diction Coach Allison-Marie Molnaa, Production Stage Manager Tinc Productions, Production Management

SCOTT EYERLY The House of Seven Gables (b. 1958)

MARC BLITZSTEIN The Harpies (1905–1963)

Intermission

RICHARD STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos (1864–1949)

GIACOMO PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi (1858–1924) SCENE SYNOPSES “Garden Quartet” from The House of Seven Gables (2000) The Harpies, an opera in one act (1930) Music and by Scott Eyerly Music and libretto by Marc Blitzstein Premiered at School of Music, 2000 Premiered at Manhattan School of Music, 1953

In the gloomy, haunted House of Seven Gables, Hepzibah Pyncheon cares This operatic spoof of Greek mythology—and of musical neo-classicism— for her brother, Clifford. Once brilliant, Clifford is now childlike, having is also intended as a Depression-era allegory. Set in ancient Thrace, languished in prison for 30 years for committing murder. But is he guilty? the work has eight characters, balanced between and Was he framed by his cousin Jaffrey, today an eminent judge? As Clifford principals, a group of three female Harpies, and three male Argonauts. regains strength, aided by his young cousin Phoebe, and a mysterious At the center is Phineus, a sightless oracle, who attempts to enjoy his boarder, Holgrave, he prepares for the final confrontation with Jaffrey. dinner but is constantly attacked by the Harpies. Not only do they steal Centuries before, the Pyncheons’ house was built on stolen ground. Ever his food, they emit a foul odour as well. Jason appears on the scene with since, the family history has been riddled with unexplained deaths. Now the the Argonauts, and he promises to fight off the Harpies if Phineus will final chapter of that history is written. guarantee that the gods will continue to favor them. As soon as the Harpies are defeated Iris appears as a messenger of the gods. She promises Phineus that he will always be safe from the Harpies, and she dispatches Yvette Keong Phoebe them to exact various tortures on others. The oracle can now eat his meal Hepzibah Xiaoya Guo in peace. Clifford Joseph Andrew Yu Weichang Wang Holgrave Phineus Alexander Mason Aello (Harpie #1) Emilyn Badgley Ocypete (Harpie #2) Natalie Rumer Calaeno (Harpie #3) Erin Wagner Zetes (Argonaut #1) Taicheng Li Calais (Argonaut #2) Daniel Rich Jason (Argonaut #3) Zachary Brown Iris, the Messenger Shelén Hughes

Intermission

4 5 Scenes I and II from “The Opera,” Ariadne auf Naxos, Opening from Gianni Schicchi (1918) Op. 60 (1916) Music by Giacomo Puccini Music by Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal In this scene, the greedy relatives of the wealthy Buoso Donati are In the “opera within an opera,” Ariadne, abandoned by Theseus, longs to mourning his death. They tear the room apart in effort to find his will, forget the feeling of being half of an inseparable being called “Theseus– only to discover that their deceased relative has left his entire fortune Ariadne” and prepares herself for Death. The nymphs—Echo, Naiad, to the church. Following this, the young Rinuccio suggests that Gianni and Dryad—lament her endless days of weeping. Zerbinetta and the Schicchi, a shrewd, self-made man and the father of his girlfriend, commedia actors peep in from offstage, fearing that it will be difficult to Lauretta, can help them. Reading the will, Schicchi devises a plan lift her spirits. Singing and dancing, the commedia actors enter. They are to impersonate the dead man. The relatives send for the notary and joined by Zerbinetta who explains that love is a compulsion; each new Schicchi, wearing Buoso’s nightshirt and cap, from his sickbed dictates lover comes, like a god, to transfigure his beloved. a new will, in which he leaves the greater part of the estate, including the house they are in, to his “dear friend Gianni Schicchi.” The relatives are

furious, and steal what they can from the house, chased out by Schicchi, Ariadne Christina Roszhart who remains behind with Lauretta and Rinuccio. Turning to the Najade Hyeree Shin audience, he points out how happy his fraud has made the young lovers Echo Yejin Lee and pleads that he not be judged too harshly. Dryade Sarah Brownawell Zerbinetta Kelly Singer Zita Elisabeth Harris Brighella Esteban Zuniga Rinuccio Taicheng Li Scaramuccio Alexander Mason Gherardo Esteban Zuniga Harlekin Marcel Sokalski Nella Blair Cagney Truffaldin Edward Lim Betto Eunsung Lee Simone Zachary Brown Marco Jimin Park La Ciesca Desiree Dawson Gherardino Yejin Lee

6 7 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Jonathan Brandani, Conductor Prelude to Performance program, where she has directed Don Giovanni, Les , , , , Jonathan Brandani is an Italian born conductor appreciated for his “fine contes d’Hoffmann Un ballo in maschera Die Zauberflöte La fille du régiment La , and regard for the score’s details,” “his clear, purposeful indications,” and Traviata . “his enthusiasm” (Seen and Heard International). Recent engagements include L’elisir d’amore and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Paige Seber, Lighting Designer (Düsseldorf, Germany) and his successful debut at the Daegu Opera Paige Seber is a Lighting Designer of Theater, Dance, and Opera. Favorite House (South Korea) in and Il Trittico. He is a regular guest of credits include Guys and Dolls (Argyle Theater), West Side Story (Sioux Minnesota Opera (Minneapolis/St. Paul), where he has conducted , City Symphony), Young Choreographers Festival (Symphony Space), Big La Bohème, and Don Pasquale. Love (Havana Theater Festival). Proud member of United Scenic Artists His performances of Puccini’s Il Trittico at the 15th Daegu International USA-829. seberlighting.com Opera Festival in South Korea were hailed with such enthusiasm that they earned him the Grand Prix, the highest recognition bestowed on an Lorraine Smyth, Costume Coordinator artist by the Festival. Lorraine Smyth has been working as costume designer, costume Upcoming engagements include further performances of Don Pasquale at assistant, and wardrobe supervisor for a number of years and is excited the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, as well as Haydn’s Il mondo della luna at the to be at Manhattan School of Music. Credits include work at The Flea Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain and Mercadante’sIl Bravo Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, New Ohio, L’Atelier Productions, and at Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland. He has also been invited to conduct Titan Theatre Company. Mayr’s Medea in Corinto at the first edition of Teatro Nuovo 2018 in and he is slated to return to the Daegu for La Bohème Nicolò Sbuelz, Vocal Coach, Pianist and Italian and L’elisir d’amore. Diction Coach Laura Alley, Director Nicolò Sbuelz is an Italian pianist, coach, and assistant conductor from Udine, Italy. In his home country, Mr. Sbuelz worked as an assistant Laura Alley has a vast repertoire of she has directed throughout conductor, coach, prompter, and répétiteur with the Accademia del the and abroad. Highlights include the European premiere Teatro alla Scala. He has also worked at internationally acclaimed opera of with Jerome Sirlin in Hannover, Germany, and houses and festivals such as Opéra National de Lyon (France), Holland the American premieres of Kinkakuji and The Dreyfus Affair for the New Festival (Amsterdam, Nederland), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria), York City Opera. Among the opera companies for which she has directed Co-Opera Co. (), Sarasota Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera, where much of the standard repertoire are Opera, Syracuse, he currently serves as coach/pianist and Italian consultant. In March Kansas City, , Austin, Cleveland, Chautauqua, Connecticut, 2019, he will be guest coach for Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere New Orleans, El Paso, Dayton Opera, and Tri-Cities Opera. Ms. Alley has of and . In addition to his extensive experience directed productions and given opera workshops/master classes at Indiana The Phoenix Don Giovanni in the opera house, Mr. Sbuelz was a Coaching Fellow at Aspen Music University, Louisiana State University, the Kansas City Conservatory, Festival during the summer of 2015 as well as an Apprentice Coach with Temple University, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Converse College, the Merola Opera program in the summer of 2016. Mr. Sbuelz received Rutgers University, New York University, and the University of Georgia. undergraduate degrees in piano and composition from the Conservatorio Laura Alley served on the opera faculty of the Mannes College of Music “G. Tartini” (Trieste, Italy) as well as a Master’s degree in musicology with for twenty years, and has also been on the faculty for Martina Arroyo’s a concentration in “Aesthetics and the Cross-Cultural Reception of Music and Languages” from the University of Pavia. 8 9 Cory Battey, Vocal Coach and Pianist , Houston Grand Opera, and Washington National Opera, she has coached and prepared more than 300 opera productions in Vocal coach and pianist Cory Battey hails from the Pacific Northwest, English. where he studied music at the University of Oregon. In September of 2017, Mr. Battey joined the faculty of Manhattan School of Music as vocal coach and répétiteur. Prior to this, he was a music staff member Nils Neubert, German Diction Coach at Palm Beach Opera, where he served as vocal coach for the young Tenor Nils Neubert, born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, maintains artist program, accompanied productions, and led educational outreach active performing and teaching careers in the United States and abroad. programs throughout the region. In high demand as a répétiteur around He currently teaches German diction at the , Manhattan the country, he has recent collaborations with Portland Opera, Opera School of Music, and Mannes School of Music, and also serves as the Omaha, and Wichita Grand Opera, preceded by his work with several German coach at the Music Academy of the West. He holds degrees from major opera companies, including Sarasota Opera, Nashville Opera, the Juilliard School (BM, Voice), Teachers College Kentucky Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, and Shreveport Opera. (MA, Music and Music Education), and the Graduate Center of The Previously, Mr. Battey served on the music staff of Opera in the Ozarks City University of New York (DMA, Performance) and serves on the for five seasons, the final two of which as head vocal coach. He has also NATS-NYC Board of Directors. He previously served on the faculties of worked with aspiring singers at the University of Memphis, Brevard William Paterson University, the Kaufman Music Center, and the Music Music Center, Seagle Music Colony, and the Astoria Music Festival Conservatory of Westchester and has also taught at the International training programs. In addition to continuing his work with Manhattan Academy of Music in Italy and at the Burgos and Puigcerdà International School of Music, Mr. Battey returns this fall to the music staff of the Music Festivals in Spain. He is a student of Dr. Robert C. White, Jr., and National Children’s Chorus and maintains a private coaching studio in lives in New York City with his wife, pianist Yuri Kim. Manhattan. Allison-Marie Molnaa, Stage Manager Kathryn LaBouff, English Diction Coach Allison-Marie Molnaa is thrilled to be working on her first show at Dr. Kathryn LaBouff currently teaches English Diction at the Juilliard MSM. She has worked at The Public Theater for Savage Love, the Music School and Manhattan School of Music, where she serves as Assistant Academy of the West for the 2017 and 2018 seasons, and the Center for Chair of the Voice Department. She is on the coaching staff of the Contemporary Opera on several productions. She was an apprentice at Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan the Juilliard School (2016–17) and is currently a Production Coordinator Opera, Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, and the at NYU. Glimmerglass Opera. She has prepared the U.S. premieres of Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy; John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby for the ; Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice and Scott Wheeler’s CAST Democracy for Washington National Opera; Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Emilyn Badgley Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree, and Andre Previn’s Brief Encounter for Soprano Emilyn Badgley is a Professional Studies Certificate candidate Houston Grand Opera; Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata for Houston Grand under the tutelage of Cynthia Hoffmann. Previous credits include Opera and New York City Opera; for Glimmerglass Central Park Cendrillon (Thisbé) and with MSM Opera Theater; Opera; Jonathan Dove’s for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Lowell Flight Suor Angelica (Suor Genovieffa) with Manhattan School of Music Opera Liebermann’s for the Juilliard Centennial Celebration; Miss Lonely Hearts Repertoire Ensemble; Street Scene, Our Town, and Le nozze di Figaro and ’s at the Merola Program of The Hotel Casa Blanca (featured soloist) with Eastman Opera Theatre; and Ainadamar (Voice of . As a diction coach for the Metropolitan Opera, the Fountain) with the Curtis Opera Theatre and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Concert credits include a guest appearance with Eastman 10 11 Repertory Singers, performing Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées. Ms. Badgley the of Brad Moore at Miami Summer Music Festival and Adele received her Bachelor of Music degree in voice from the Eastman School in Die Fledermaus, under the baton of William Lumpkin, at BUTI’s of Music in 2016, where she was named a Lois S. Rogers Scholar, and her Vocal Academy for undergraduate singers. After having worked with Master of Music degree in voice from Manhattan School of Music in 2018. Mr. Heggie last summer, she expanded her contemporary repertoire by performing Heggie’s At the Statue of Venus at Manhattan School of Music last winter. This February, she will be covering the role of Leïla in Les Zachary Brown Pêcheurs de perles at Manhattan School of Music. Blair has also participated Zachary Brown, -, is a second-year graduate student under in Classic Lyric Arts: La Lingua della Lirica in Italy and L’art du Chant the tutelage of Mark Oswald. In 2018, Brown performed the title role Français in France, where she expanded her worldview and linguistic in Le nozze di Figaro with the Bay View Music Festival and Don Alfonso skills through intensive study. (Così fan tutte) at the Mark Oswald Summer Program. In 2017 he performed Harry (Street Scene) with the Janiec Opera Company. Past roles include Don Giovanni and Leporello (Don Giovanni), Marcello Desiree Dawson (La Bohème), Poo-Bah (The Mikado), Frank Maurrant (Street Scene), Soprano Desiree Dawson is a first-year Master’s degree candidate at Jigger (Carousel), and The Traveller (Curlew River). He completed his Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Ruth Golden. Ms. undergraduate studies at Simpson College in 2015 where he studied with Dawson received her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Bruce Brown. Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where she studied with Ken Shaw. While at CCM, she workshopped Intimate Apparel (Chamber Maid, Female Vendor, Beautician) by American composer Sarah Brownawell Ricky Ian Gordon with Cincinnati Opera/CCM Opera Fusion and was Born in Setauket, New York, mezzo-soprano Sarah Brownawell has also seen in Albert Herring (Florence Pike) with CCM Opera d’arte. Scene been featured in operatic roles ranging from baroque to contemporary. work includes scenes from Act 1 and 2 of Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi). She also Some of her favorites include Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Fox and the participated in CCM Opera Bootcamp, where she was in Suor Angelica (La Woodpecker in Janáček’s The Adventures of Vixen Sharp- Ears, Arnalta in Maestra delle Novizie). L’incornazione di Poppea, Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas, and Stephanie Necrophorus in Nine with Manhattan School of Music’s Summer Voice Festival. Her scene work includes Annio in La clemenza di Tito and Ramiro Elisabeth Harris in La finta giardiniera by Mozart with Classic Lyric Arts: La Lingua Della Mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Harris is a second-year Master’s degree Lirica; Prince Charmant in Cendrillon at Manhattan School of Music; candidate at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Shirley and Third Knaben in Die Zauberflöte with Music Theater Bavaria. She is Close. Previous operatic credits include Così fan tutte (Dorabella), La a second-year Master’s degree candidate at Manhattan School of Music Cenerentola (Tisbe), Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), (Madame under the tutelage of Ashley Putnam. Larina), Die Fledermaus (Prince Orlofsky), Dido and Aeneas (Witch I), and partial roles in Falstaff (Mrs. Meg Page), and Iphigénie (Iphigénie, cover). Ms. Harris has performed as a soloist with Auckland Choral, Orchestra Blair Cagney Wellington, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Napier Civic Choir, New York based soprano Blair Cagney is a first-year Master’s degree and the Kāpiti Chamber Choir in works including Handel’s , candidate at Manhattan School of Music studying with Ruth Golden. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Mozart , Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Her most recent credits include Boblicka in Snow Maiden at Manhattan Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Donizetti’s Messa Di Requiem, Schumann’s School of Music under the baton of Jorge Parodi and direction of Dona Requiem, Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes and Bach’s B Minor Mass. D. Vaughn, Sister Lillianne in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking under 12 13 Shelén Hughes Music, as well as for MSM’s outreach program, touring NYC’s public and private schools. He performed the title role of in The Assisi Bolivian soprano Shelén Hughes passionately believes in education, Don Giovanni Performing Arts Festival in Italy. Mr. Lee is a scholarship recipient at social service, and music as a core value in life. Previous credits include MSM and an Opera Buffs Inc. grant recipient. Snegurochka from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snegurochka (Manhattan School of Music) and Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen (Chautauqua Institution). Her upcoming roles include Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine. Ms. Hughes is in Yejin Lee the process of funding an international nonprofit organization for those in need in Bolivia, fully funded by classical music. She is studying with Soprano Yejin Lee is a first-year Master’s degree candidate at Manhattan Ashley Putnam and is a recipient of the 2018–19 Mae Zenke Orvis Opera School of Music under the tutelage of Ashley Putnam. Ms. Lee was Scholarship. She received the Hugh Ross Award from Manhattan School a winner in the 2018 National Association of Teachers of Singing of Music upon receiving her Bachelor of Music degree. Competition and received an honorable mention in the Kenett Symphony Voice Competition in 2017. Ms. Lee was also a winner in the 53rd Korea Music Education Newspaper Corporation Music Competition and Yvette Keong a finalist in the 3rd Hong Kong International Music Festival Voice Originally from Sydney, , soprano Yvette Keong is a fourth- Competition. Previous credits include Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), year undergraduate at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Gianni Schicchi, and Suor Angelica (Nella/Genovieffa) with Kookmin at the University of South Korea. Edith Bers. Ms. Keong recently performed as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Berlin Opera Academy and the Prague Estates Theater and was named the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Overseas Music Taicheng Li Scholar of 2018. Last season, Ms. Keong was featured as the soprano Tenor Taicheng Li is a second-year Master’s degree candidate and soloist of Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the MSM Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Kent Tritle and sang in scenes as Rose scholarship recipient at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Maitland Peters. He is a graduate of Shenyang Normal University. He Maurrant (Street Scene). Other credits include Norina (Don Pasquale), was one of the soloists in Beethoven’s for the reopening of Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Fiordiligi (Così fan Choral Fantasy Neidorff-Karpati Hall at Manhattan School of Music. Previous credits tutte), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), and Dorinda (Orlando). Ms. Keong has performed in master classes with Jane Glover, Hei-Kyung Hong, Martin include The Instructor in Lei Feng, Alfredo Germont in La Traviata, and Katz, , and Brian Zeger. She has won accolades from the the Prince in Cendrillon with Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater. National Hal Leonard Art Song Competition, Sydney Eisteddfod, and Taicheng was also a soloist for Tony Fok’s Ask the Sky and the Earth: An Northern Beaches Vocal Championships. Upcoming performances Oratorio Cantata for the Sent-down Youth in the China Now Music Festival at . Mr. Li was a scholarship recipient at the Classic Lyric include Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring) with Manhattan School of Music’s Senior Opera Theater and recitals as part of Warren Jones’ Arts program in Italy last summer. Singers and Pianists Seminar. Edward Lim Eunsung Lee Bass Edward Lim is a fourth-year undergraduate at Manhattan School of Korean-American baritone Eunsung Lee is a second-year Master’s degree Music under the tutelage of James Morris. Previous experience includes candidate at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Shirley Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro), Don Giovanni (Commendatore) at Národní , Czech National Theater with Prague Summer Nights music Close. Mr. Lee performed the role of Colline in La Bohème with Opera divadlo festival, and (Figaro) at the Tuscia Music Festival with New York. He has also performed as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Le nozze di Figaro Thomas Muraco’s Opera Repertoire Ensemble at Manhattan School of the International Lyric Academy. Along with his work in the standard 14 15 repertoire Mr. Lim is a professional music producer under the title Christina Roszhart “Jazzinuf” and has reached over 14 million streams on Spotify and Apple Soprano Christina Roszhart is a first-year Master’s student at Manhattan Music with his works. School of Music under the tutelage of Shirley Close. Ms. Roszhart has also been a student at Dolora Zajick’s Institute of Young Dramatic Voices Alexander Mason since 2017. Previous credits include Aïda (High Priestess) and scenes from Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne). Ms. Roszhart was chosen as the Soprano Tenor Alexander Mason is a student of Ashley Putnam, currently Solo cover for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 during Manhattan School pursuing a Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music in of Music’s Centennial Celebration. She is a humble recipient of the Licia classical vocal performance. He completed his undergraduate studies at Albanese/Puccini Scholarship. the College of New Jersey as a flute performance major. Mr. Mason was awarded first prize in the 2016 Harlem Opera Competition collegiate division and in the 2017 New Jersey National Association of Teachers Natalie Rumer of Singing Competition. He has sung chorus professionally with Opera Mezzo-soprano Natalie Rumer is a first-year Master’s degree candidate Delaware and Bohème Opera in Rossini’s and Donizetti’s La Cenerentola studying under Mark Oswald at Manhattan School of Music. She has , respectively. Previous roles covered include previously played the role of Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Nemorino in and Peter Quint in . L’elisir d’amore The Turn of the Screw both staged and concert performances, as well as Tessa in Gilbert and Alexander was part of MSM Opera Theater’s revival of Cendrillon by Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, Margot in Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Nicolas Isouard last fall. and Prinz Orlofsky in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. Natalie won the David Greedy Memorial Prize in Opera at Luther College and performed Jimin Park with the Symphony Orchestra at the President’s Showcase Concert as the winner of Luther College’s biennial Concerto Competition. Upcoming Baritone Jimin Park, from Seoul, Korea, is pursuing his Master of Music performances include the mezzo soloist in by Emily degree in vocal performance under the tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell Messiah Reimagined Lau with the NYC Master Chorale. at Manhattan School of Music. He has performed as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro at Yonsei University, where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree. Hyeree Shin Daniel Rich Soprano Hyeree Shin is a Professional Studies Certificate candidate at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Ashley Putnam. Baritone Daniel Rich is a second-year Master’s student at MSM, studying Previous credits include (Alcina) with Music Academy with Mark Oswald. Some of his performance highlights include scenes Alcina International, Cendrillon (Clorinde) with MSM Opera Theater, Le nozze from On and Daniel Webster in The Devil and Daniel Webster by (La Contessa) with Hanyang University, and Moore with MSU Opera Workshop, premiering the role of Surnani in di Figaro Suor Angelica (Suor Genovieffa) with Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Repertoire the operetta Qadar for the Smithsonian, and performing as Alidoro in Ensemble. Opera scene work includes Cendrillon (La Fée) with Manhattan La Cenerentola by Rossini for MSM Opera Theater. Daniel concertizes, School of Music. She also performed with the MSM Chamber Orchestra performs oratorio works, and gives recitals on a frequent basis, conducted by George Manahan in Heitor Villa-Lobos’s performing for organizations such as CAAPA, Harlem Opera Theater, Bachianas . She has given solo recitals for the Kumho Asiana Cultural Three on 3, and many more. He is a 2018–19 recipient of the Edgar Foster Brasileiras Foundation and Seil Music Culture Foundation and performed in an Daniels Scholarship in Voice at MSM. Daniel is a graduate of Morgan anniversary concert with the Hanyang Wind Orchestra. State University where he studied, respectively, with Vincent Stringer and Marquita Lister. 16 17 Kelly Singer of Matthew Rose’s Scuola di . In the spring she will performing the role of Mrs. Herring in Manhattan School of Music’s Senior Opera Kelly Singer, a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, is pursuing her Master of Theater production of Britten’s . Music degree at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Shirley Albert Herring Close. Winner of the 2016 and 2017 Arkansas District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Ms. Singer was recently named Weichang Wang the William Schatzkamer Young Artist of the Year by the University City Symphony Orchestra. She has performed as a featured soloist with Bass Weichang Wang is a first-year Master’s degree candidate at the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Choral Society, the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Ashley Putnam. Cherokee Symphony Orchestra, and the Salzburg Voice Festival in Previous credits include Gianni Schicchi (Simone) with Carnac Opera Festival; (Simone) with the seventh Beijing Comic Opera Austria. Recent work includes Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Gianni Schicchi Festival; and (Simone) and (Colline) with Fujian Flora (cover) in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with Manhattan School Gianni Schicchi La Bohème Opera Theater. of Music Opera Theater; Constance in Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites with Harrower Opera in Atlanta; and Mabel in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in Little Rock. Joseph Andrew Yu Tenor Joseph Andrew Yu is a first-year Master’s degree candidate at Marcel Sokalski Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Marlena Kleinman Malas. This past summer, he was awarded the Martha Marks Mack Polish-Canadian baritone Marcel Sokalski, a second-year Master’s degree Award at the Chautauqua Music Festival. Previous credits include candidate, is under the tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell at Manhattan (Tsar Berendey) with Manhattan School of Music Senior School of Music, where he has discovered the thrill of being onstage Snegurochka Opera and Le nozze di Figaro (Basilio) with New York Lyric Opera with the strength of the orchestra behind him. He has performed in La Theatre. Scene work includes La Sonnambula (Elvino) and L’elisir d’amore Cenerentola (Dandini), The Snow Maiden (Mizgir), Cendrillon (Alidor), Don (Nemorino) with Classic Lyric Arts. Mr. Yu will appear as Raimondo Giovanni in the title role, Die Zauberflöte (Papageno), and Così fan tutte in in MSM Opera Theater’s upcoming double bill. He is (Don Alfonso). His performances this year at Manhattan School of Music I Due Timidi currently a recipient of Manhattan School of Music’s President’s Award include Harlekin in a scene from Ariadne auf Naxos, the title role of Gianni Scholarship. Schicchi, and Sid in Albert Herring.

Erin Wagner Esteban Zuniga Mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner is a senior undergraduate at Manhattan Hailing from Costa Rica, tenor Esteban Zuniga is currently pursuing a School of Music under the tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. Scene Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Maitland Peters. He has appeared as Ottavio in and credits include La clemenza di Tito (Sesto, Annio), Le nozze di Figaro Don Giovanni Curzio in and sung leading roles in zarzuelas, including (Marcellina), Pasatieri’s Black Widow (Raquel), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), Le nozze di Figaro by Jacinto Guerrero and by and Dido and Aeneas (Dido). She premiered Now/here Sea/son, a concert El Huesped del Sevillano El Poeta Calculista chamber opera by Samuel Zagnit. She was the Mezzo-soprano soloist Manuel García. As a soloist, Zuniga has performed in Camille Saint- in Mozart’s Requiem with the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël, J. S. Bach’s Der Kaffekantate, Mozart’s Requiem, Orchestra under the baton of Kent Tritle. She also sang the role of and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Ancilla in Charpentier’s oratorio Le Reniement du St. Pierre with chamber orchestra. She was a 2018 Colburn Fellow at SongFest and a participant

18 19 OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATRE Megan Maguire, Electrician Matt Cecchini, Focus Electrician PRODUCTIONS Christina Teichroew, Managing Director Phil Manzi, Focus Electrician Robert Phillip Smith, Assistant Manager Chad Williams, Electrician Kathryn Graham, Associate MSM OPERA THEATER Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director PRODUCTION STAFF William Tracy, Head of Opera Musical Studies Brianna Poh, Production Manager Anne Shikany, Assistant to the Artistic Director Tinc Productions, Production Management Cory Battey, Vocal Coach David Beller, Tinc Production Manager for Opera Mark Janas, Vocal Coach Gage Steenhagen, Tinc Production Manager for the Musical Theatre Kristen Kemp, Vocal Coach Zach Longstreet, Tinc Assistant Production Manager June Marano-Murray, Vocal Coach Megan Garner, Props Supervisor Nicolò Sbuelz, Vocal Coach Allison-Marie Molnaa, Production Stage Manager Melissa Robilotta, Assistant Stage Manager Peter Lockwood, Lighting Programmer VOICE FACULTY Maitland Peters, Chair Spiro Malas Edith Bers PERFORMANCE OPERATIONS STAFF Joan Caplan Patricia Misslin Henry Valoris, Dean of Performance and Productions Operations Shirley Close James Morris Francesca Axam-Hocker, Manager of Patron Services Mignon Dunn Mark Oswald Mark Broschinsky, Orchestra Manager Ruth Golden Joan Patenaude-Yarnell Katherine Dryden, Director of Instrumental Ensembles Hilda Harris Ashley Putnam Melissa Magliula, Manager of Scheduling Cynthia Hoffmann Neil Rosenshein Andrew Ramos, Manager of Jazz Arts Marlena Kleinman Malas Manly Romero, Performance Librarian and Administrative Director of the Contemporary Performance Program Kyra Simms, Performance Operations Associate RELATED VOICE STUDIES Kathryn LaBouff, Kenneth Merrill Assistant Chair Glenn Morton RIVERSIDE THEATRE STAFF AND CREW Nancy Valladares, Riverside Technical Director Marianne Barrett Thomas Muraco Temishia Johnson, TRT Production Manager Raymond Beegle Nils Neubert Lauren Villegas, Box Office Manager Miriam Charney Ronnie Oliver, Jr. Jacob Schmidt, Theater Audio/Video Supervisor Kenneth Cooper Francis Patrelle Zac Goin, Head Technician Jocelyn Dueck Shane Schag Alex Poller, House Technician Bénédicte Jourdois Annie Shikany Martin Bodenheimer, Light Board Operator Rhoda Levine Paul Sperry Carolyn Marlow Cristina Stanescu 20 21 OPERA AT MANHATTAN SCHOOL ABOUT MANHATTAN OF MUSIC Recognized as one of the foremost opera training programs in the world, SCHOOL OF MUSIC Manhattan School of Music’s opera program attracts some of the most Founded as a community music school by Janet Daniels Schenck in talented young singers from the United States and more than forty other 1918, today MSM is recognized for its more than 960 superbly talented countries. Students in the program refine their technique and develop undergraduate and graduate students who come from more than 50 their artistry under the guidance of a faculty of eminent artist-teachers countries and nearly all 50 states; its innovative curricula and world- while gaining exposure before New York City audiences through renowned artist-teacher faculty that includes musicians from the New performances in opera scenes, community outreach concerts, and two York Philharmonic, the Met Orchestra, and the top ranks of the jazz and full-length productions each year. Broadway communities; and a distinguished community of accomplished, award-winning alumni working at the highest levels of the musical, The Manhattan School of Music opera program has a long and proud educational, cultural, and professional worlds. tradition of producing some of the finest operatic artists in America and abroad. Manhattan School of Music’s opera productions have been The School is dedicated to the personal, artistic, and intellectual praised as a significant contribution to operatic life in New York City, and development of aspiring musicians, from its Precollege students through many students have gone on to major careers. Among notable alumnae those pursuing doctoral studies. Offering classical, jazz, and musical are Dawn Upshaw, Catherine Malfitano, Alexandra Deshorties, theatre training, MSM grants a range of undergraduate and graduate Kathleen Kim, and Tonna Miller and mezzo-sopranos Susan Graham, degrees. True to MSM’s origins as a music school for children, the Dolora Zajick, Jennifer Dudley, and Kate Aldrich of the Metropolitan Precollege program continues to offer superior music instruction to 475 Opera. Alumni who have appeared at the Metropolitan Opera and the young musicians between the ages of 5 and 18. 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