MOstly

&

The Jefferson City Concert Association

Present

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s

The Magic Flute

March 22, 2018 7:00p.m.

Mitchell Auditorium Lincoln University

Rebecca Talbert - MOstly Opera Executive & Artistic Director Patrick Clark - Southside Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor MOstly Opera

Board of Directors 2017 - 2018

Becky Farley, President

Sandra Trout, Vice-President

Samantha Crabill, Secretary/Treasurer

Anne Riggs, Founder & Fundraising Chairperson

Kristin Chisham

Rebecca Talbert, Executive & Artistic Director

Letter from the Executive Director:

Hello Opera Lovers!

Welcome to MOstly Opera’s performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute! We are so excited to share this experience with you. Thank you to all who have supported us through our first year! We are seeing many exciting things happening in our arts community. Most wonderful is the sense of community that we have as it is impossible to produce a show of this significance, and do it any kind of justice without our wonderful volunteers and partners. We here at MOstly Opera are thrilled to be collaborating with the Southside Philharmonic Orchestra, who has had a fabulous first year as well. We look forward to the future and the exciting opportunties that now seem so possible!

This year has been one of immense growth for MOstly Opera. Earlier this week, members of MOstly Opera and The Magic Flute cast visited elementary schools in Jefferson City and performed selections for students and faculty. I am looking forward to strengthening these ties with the community and working with teachers and students to create vibrant productions, and perhaps even original compositions. Who knows, perhaps we have the new “Hamilton” creator among us. One of the goals of MOstly Opera is to encourage the development of creative and talented students in the community and give them opportunities to both create and perform.

I hope you enjoy this production of The Magic Flute as much as I enjoyed working with this wondeful cast of musicians. Thank you for the real pleasure it has been to work with such a talented, energetic group of people.

With much hope and excitement for the future,

Personnel Bios:

MOstly Opera Executive & Artistic Director - A native of the state of Georgia, Rebecca Jane Talbert has made her home in the Mid-Missouri area for the past 27 years. Rebecca is the Executive Director of MOstly Opera and the assistant conductor of the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra where she also serves as the principal player for the second violin section. Rebecca is an adjunct professor of music at William Woods University in Fulton, MO where she has been the musical director for numerous productions of the Theatre Department including Kiss Me Kate, The Glorious Ones, 9 to 5, The Last 5 Years. A pianist and sought-after accompanist, Rebecca is also a frequent collaborator with local theatre groups and has been musical director for the Capital City Players productions of Man of La Mancha, & Avenue Q. Rebecca earned her bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Lincoln and studied conducting with Edward Dolbashian and Dr. Paul Crabb, at the University of Missouri-Columbia, earning her Master’s degree in 2005. Rebecca maintains an active piano and violin studio in the Jefferson City area.

Southside Philharmonic Conductor - Patrick David Clark was born in St. Louis, MO, and is a composer, conductor, and also founder and Artistic Director of the Southside Philharmonic Orchestra. Patrick is conductor and musical director of the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Director of Music at Central United Church of Christ, frequent guest conductor for the Columbia Civic Orchestra and Mizzou New Music Ensemble, and musical director for many productions by The Little Theater, including Bye Bye Birdie, Rent, The Odd Couple, and Peter Pan. As a composer Patrick has been commissioned by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and many American and European chamber ensembles and soloists including his work for piano solo, Snow Coming, for St. Louis Symphony pianist Peter Henderson, and a chamber work for The Odyssey Chamber Concerts Series in Columbia, MO. Orchestral works by Patrick have been programmed by the Seattle Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Spokane Symphony, and the Nederlands Ballet Orkest. Chamber works by Patrick have been performed and recorded in The Netherlands and Israel. Recent performances include a performance by the Roosevelt University Contemporary Music Ensemble of Glancing Blade for Chamber works by Patrick have been performed and recorded in The Netherlands and Israel. Recent performances include a performance by the Roosevelt University Contemporary Music Ensemble of Glancing Blade for chamber orchestra, March 2017. The Dutch new music ensemble, But What About..,(BWA), whose formation has centered on a specific work of Patrick’s, Light Bending Forward, which is based on texts drawn from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, includes this work in their regular performance repertoire. Light Bending Forward has been listed in the Italian Journal Modern Accordion Perspectives: Critical Selection of Accordion Works Composed Between 1990 and 2010. Patrick is currently working with the American Composers Alliance in planning a tour for BWA to to perform new works by American composers including new one of his own: Tao de ching. Dr. Clark has worked with American Voices as Composition faculty on several trips to Kurdistan, Thailand, and Lebanon. Patrick holds his Bachelor’s degree in composition from the University of Missouri, Columbia, earned his Master’s degree from the University of Arizona, studying with Dan Asia, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Patrick is a Tanglewood Fellow (1997), participated as a composer at June in Buffalo and studied with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague in Holland on a Netherlands-America Foundation Grant (Fulbright). Patrick works regularly with the MU composition faculty in the Summer COMP (“Creating Original Music Project”) and the Mizzou International Composers Festival. His own work written for this festival, Ptolemy’s Carousel, and many other works by Patrick can be heard at: http://soundcloud.com/patrick-david-clark Set Designer – Ashleigh Elizabeth Jones is a native of Jefferson City, who is currently residing in Omaha. Ashleigh is pursuing a Studio Art degree with an emphasis in Theatre Art from the Metropolitan Community College of Omaha. Ashleigh is currently finishing a piece for her first gallery exhibition showing. She has been actively involved in all aspects of Theatre Art, she is a veteran of many plays and musicals including playing the violin and keyboards for pit orchestras in Kiss Me Kate, The Last 5 Years, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, The Wizard of Oz and Oklahoma and well as working with costuming and set design.

Cast Biographies in order of appearance:

Ryan Hampton, tenor, is the Director of the MVC Concert Choir and teaches applied voice lessons, conducting, composition, theory, and music fundamentals at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Hampton taught music in Missouri public schools for eight years. He also serves as Music Director at First United Methodist Church in Jefferson City. Mr. Hampton is active as an educator, composer, and conductor. He often serves as a guest conductor for area High School Conference Choirs. His piece Lux Aeterna was recently performed in central Missouri by the Columbia Chamber Choir and Vox Nova. He most enjoys teaching and mentoring future music educators. Aside from music, Mr. Hampton enjoys being active and spending time outdoors with his wife, Melissa, and their twin sons, Greyson and Graham.

The bell-like quality of Sandra Troutt's voice was developed during voice lessons in high school. She was given a recording from her voice teacher of a soprano singing a very light and extremely high song. She just loved singing along. Sandra attended Central Missouri State University from 1982-84 and studied voice with Dr. Phyllis Robertson. She transferred her junior year to University of Missouri- Columbia and studied with Dr. Virginia Pyle. Sandra completed her Bachelors of Science degree in Music Education in 1986 and received her Masters of Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis in the Creative Arts in 2003. Miss Troutt has taught elementary music for 29 years with the last 22 being here in Jefferson City at Belair Elementary School. She has performed in the community with many groups including First Christian Church choir, Jefferson City Cantorum, Jefferson City Symphony chorus. She performed the role of the Dew Fairy in the 2017 production of Hansel and Gretel with MOstly Opera and is very excited to sing the role of First Lady in this production of The Magic Flute.

Samantha Crabill, soprano, is known for her warmth of tone and ease of registration. She seemed destined for singing when every afternoon after the Sponsors of Dolly Parton show she would sing Love is Like a MOstly Opera Butterfly on her swing set emulating Parton. She had also memorized all of the musical Annie by age three and often performed it for family members. Samantha attended the University of Missouri- Columbia, studying vocal performance with Dr. Divas $500+ Melinda Lein, Ann Harrell, Dr. Tiffany Blake and Todd & Anne Riggs JoElla Todd. She performed as the Abbess in Suor Angelica and the First Witch in Dido and Aeneas. Samantha also appeared as Lives the Rain in the World Premier of Michael Ching’s Corps of Discovery. Samantha serves on the MOstly Opera board as well as performing with the company. She was last seen as the Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Maestros $100 + Gretel in February of 2017. Mrs. Crabill is thrilled to be performing in this production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Shirley Barbour

Karel Lowery The Bridge Kristin Van De Velde, Mezzo-Soprano Oscars The hills were alive with the sound of music to Ecco Lounge serenade the horses as a small farm girl sang Scholastics Inc. melodies that captured her imagination. From those hills in Chariton County, Kristin went on to graduate from Northeast Missouri (now Truman) State University. Although she never became Julie Andrews, she did work with vocal coach Steve Fowler, who starred as Poppa, in the Broadway Chorus $25+ production of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Starlight Express. Today Kristin is active in a variety of J Pfenny’s singing endeavors, having performed over the years Capital Music as a soloist and in ensembles presenting sacred, Marshalls’s & Co. classical, musical theatre and special event programs. This season, she is Dr Orne – Southwest Dental singing with MOstly Opera, the ladies ensemble Liberte’ and the Jefferson Canterbury Winery City Cantorum. She has also performed with the Jefferson City Symphony Chorus, the Missourians, TMI (The Musical Inspiration), the Capital City Krieger & Krieger Players and the Jefferson City Little Theatre. Madison’s Cafe’

Samuel Wright, Baritone, hails from St. Louis, Missouri, and regularly performs with companies and organizations in Missouri and its neighbors, including the Show-Me Opera, Columbia Civic Orchestra, Opera in the Ozarks, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre,Union Avenue Opera, Missouri Symphony, and the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra. In January 2015, Wright made his professional debut with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre performing the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni. His other operatic highlights include performances as Giorgio Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, the title role in Puccini’s , Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Peter in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, John Proctor in Ward’s The Crucible, King Melchior in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, and in world premiere performances of The Outlaw by Missouri composer Justin Pounds and Hatrack by Missouri composer Trey Makler. Wright studied at the University of Missouri under the tutelage of Steven Tharp. He most recently performed as the baritone soloist in the Napa Valley College production of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Heather Ash, soprano, hails from Cedar Rapids, . She graduated high school thinking she would become a Shakespearian actress and finished her Thank You first degree at Stephens College while studying voice with Pamela Ellsworth-Smith. Realizing her heart and voice truly belonged in music, she completed a second degree in voice at Mizzou First United Methodist under the tutelage of JoElla Todd. She continued on to the graduate level at New England for the gracious hospitality you showed Conservatory. Once in , a change of heart came and for eight years she stopped singing to in allowing us to rehearse become a yoga teacher and massage therapist. Long story short, a year and a half ago, the music in your beautiful space! called once again and here she is, just hoping to live her passion, do Mozart justice, and sing her heart out. She currently studies with Dr. Bradley T Barrett.

Elizabeth Herdman is a soprano living in Kansas City, Missouri. She recently performed Bach's Mass in B minor in the Bach Chorale with the Southside Philharmonic Orchestra. She graduated in 2015 from the University of Missouri, where she studied music and education. There she participated in multiple vocal and instrumental ensembles, including University Singers, Marching Mizzou and Tuba Studio. In 2013 she performed in the chorus of Show-Me Opera's Cosi fan Tutte. Elizabeth has enjoyed opera since high school, getting involved with the Lyric Opera Summer Camp and playing a children's chorus role in the Lyric's production of La Bohème. Currently, she works with children with special needs in her childhood elementary school in the KC Northland

Tenor soloist Kerry Cordray has performed roles in Midwest Lyric Opera productions of Die Fledermaus, and Amahl and the Night Visitors, and has performed as a soloist for JCSO symphony performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Honnegger’s King David, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah. Kerry has also acted in roles at Scene One Theatre and the Capitol City Players. He plays saxophone/clarinet in his own jazz combo, and co-leads music ministry at Grace Evangelical Free Church of Jefferson City. By day, he is a communications officer for a state utility organization. He has an M.A. in communications from Wheaton College (IL) and a B.A. in philosophy and religion from College of the Ozarks.

Aaron Talbert is a junior in high school at Jefferson City High School. She plays the violin in the symphonic orchestra at JCHS. She has participated in many musicals including Tom Sawyer, Mary Poppins, The Music Man and Godspell for Lighthouse Preparatory Academy and MOstly Opera’s debut performance of Hansel & Gretel. She has a love for music and food.

Elizabeth Rose Hentges. I am 16 years old and a junior at Helias Catholic High School. I am a Field Violins violinist, concert choir member, women's choir member, and worship leader at my church. I love the 904 Amethyst Lane Jefferson City, MO 65109 Lord! I want to do missionary work and to take care www.fieldvioins.com 573-680-3705 of people throughout my life, and I also have a deep interest and appreciation for all forms of art. I hope you enjoy this opera as much as I do!

Field Violins is a full-service stringed instrument shop providing a Alexandria Talbert is a freshman at University of Central Missouri where is pursuing a degree in full range of Set-up, repairs & restorations, and sales/service of all English with a double minor in Creative Writing and instruments of the violin family. Don’t hesitate to give Jerry Field a Music. Allie, as she is known to friends and family, attended Lighthouse Preparatory Academy in call, text, or you Jefferson City where she participated in her school’s fall and spring musical productions including Tom Can email him at [email protected] Sawyer, Godspell, with her most significant role as Eulalia Shinn in The Music Man. She has also “serving the stringed instrument needs of central Missouri” performed in Stained Glass Theater productions and is excited to join MOstly Opera in The Magic Flute.

Aleksandar Dragojevic, baritone, was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After studying flute in his teens, he enrolled in University of Sarajevo Thank you Music Academy and studied voice with Pasa Gackic. After graduating he worked as a choir member of Opera in Sarajevo National Theatre, and as a voice Missouri Valley College teacher. He has performed in concerts and cultural events all over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Together with his colleagues he formed a non-profit & organization Figaro, dedicated to promoting opera and classical music in Bosnia. He made his operatic Dyann Rozema debut as Pluto in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, performed by National Theatre of the Republic of Srpska, in his hometown. After moving to the USA, he made his American debut with the Winter Opera Saint Louis as Morales in Carmen. He for the loan of also appeared as Giuseppe in La Traviata for the Hot Summer Nights festival in Columbia, Missouri, and for Talking Horse Theatre Columbia as Theodore Sarastro, Tamino, & Pamina’s Askeu in An Antique Carol. beautiful costumes!

Gordon Blodgett- Bass-Baritone Originally a Saxophone player from New Franklin, MO, Gordon Blodgett graduated from Missouri Southern State University with a Vocal Performance Degree in 2017. He has sung with Pittsburg State’s production of The Pirates of Penzance as the Sergeant, Heartland Opera’s production of Down in the Valley as the Father, and Heartland Opera’s Chorus for their productions of Pagliacci, La Traviata, Elixir of Love and Carmen. He is currently a young artist with the Springfield Regional Opera as well as studying under Daniel Gutierrez.

A classically trained lyric soprano, Christina Bonsall earned a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a performer’s diploma in Opera from Indiana University. In 2003, she was chosen to world premiere the role of in The Corps of Discovery, a musical account of the Lewis and Clark story. Other roles include La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro, Hanna in The Merry Widow, Blache in Dialogue des Carmelites, Norina in Don Pasquale, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Laurie in The Tender Land, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Papagena in Die Zauberflote. Christina has been the soprano soloist for Faure's Requiem, Haydn's The Seasons, Orff's Carmina Burana, Mozart's Mass in C, and Handel's Messiah. She has performed on stages around the US including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.

Hailey Bradley is a native of Cape Girardeau. She is a 2012 graduate of Southeast Missouri State, and studied under Dr. Leslie Jones. She has performed in several through the SEMO music program, including Hansel and Gretel, The Mikado, and Cosi Fan Tutte. She currently lives in Jefferson City with her husband and two little girls.

Lance Talbert, baritone, lives in Jefferson City. He plays the cello, Instead, Pamina goes to Sarastro and begs forgiveness and dabbles in composition. He is a computer programmer and is for her mother; he agrees, declaring that only love, not vengeance, will currently working on several projects. Lance is a frequent performer lead to peace and happiness. As part of their tests, both Tamino and with Stained Glass theater and has been seen on their stage as Lurvy in Papageno are sworn to silence. An old woman approaches Papageno Charlottes Web, The Toad in Wind in the Willows, Kit Ten Boom in declaring that she is really eighteen years old and in love with him. The Hiding Place. She runs away, but three spirits appear and give back to Tamino and Papageno the magic flute and bells. Pamina arrives, but she misunderstands Tamino’s silence and is heartbroken. Papageno says Jim Borgwald recently retired from a 37-year career of that he wants a sweetheart, and the old woman returns and reveals teaching physics and astronomy at several colleges and herself to be a young woman in disguise. Her name: Papagena. As universities, including Lincoln University, Coe College, soon as she reveals herself however, a priest orders her away. and Randolph-Macon College. He earned a PhD in Physics Meanwhile, Pamina is struggling with Tamino’s rejection and prepares from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Professor to give up on life. The three spirits intervene and guide her to Tamino, Emeritus of Physics at Lincoln University, where he who is about to undergo the final trial. Pamina and Tamino go through taught for the past 22 years. He was Chair of the Lincoln the ordeal together, emerging unscathed thanks to the magic flute. Sad University Senate for three years. He served for two and all alone, Papageno rather reluctantly attempts to hang himself. years as a Lieutenant in the Signal Corps of the U. S. Army. Dr. Borgwald Seeing this, the three spirits suggest he play his magic bells. He does was active for nine years in the governance of the American Association of and Papagena appears; the two declare their intent to raise a large Physics Teachers. He was a founding member of Lincoln University's chapter family. Meanwhile, Monostatos has joined forces with the Queen of of the American Association of University Professors, and he served for six the Night, but their plan to kill Sarastro is foiled by an earthquake. The years as an officer of the Missouri state conference of the AAUP. Dr. opera ends with Sarastro, Tamino, and Pamina celebrating the victory Borgwald has been a member of the Jefferson City Symphony Chorus for 20 of light over darkness. years, and he also sings with Monticello, Jefferson City's male chorus.

Brent Lange is a senior Equestrian Major at William Woods in Fulton MO. He is a great music lover and plays guitar and the drums. Brent is currently working on his first recording project, featuring his own original music.

Tim Campbell, tenor is a freshman Music Education major at University of Central Missouri. He attended Jefferson City High School where he participated in band and theater.

The Magic Flute Synopsis:

In the fairytale land of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, things may not be as they appear. Three ladies in the service of the Queen of the Night appear to save Prince Tamino from a serpent. When they leave to tell the queen, the birdcatcher Papageno appears and boasts to Tamino that it was he who killed the creature. The ladies return to give Tamino a portrait of the queen’s daughter, Pamina, who they say has been enslaved by the evil Sarastro. Tamino immediately falls in love with the girl. The queen, appearing in a burst of thunder, tells Tamino about the loss of her daughter and commands him to rescue her. The ladies give a magic flute to Tamino and silver bells to Papageno to ensure their safety on the journey and appoint three spirits to guide them.

Sarastro’s slave Monostatos pursues Pamina but is frightened away by Papageno. The birdcatcher tells Pamina that Tamino loves her and is on his way to save her. Led by the three spirits to the temple of Sarastro, Tamino learns from a high priest that it is the Queen, not

Sarastro, who is evil. Hearing that Pamina is safe, Tamino decides to pursue enlightenment in the Temple of Wisdom. Pamina and Papageno are trapped by Monostatos and his men but Papageno plays his magic bells and the slaves are placed in a trace. Sarastro enters in great ceremony. He punishes Monostatos and promises Pamina that he will eventually set her free. Pamina and Tamino meet face to face briefly before Tamino is lead into the temple with Papageno.

Sarastro tells the priests that Tamino will undergo initiation rites. Monostatos tries to kiss the sleeping Pamina. but is surprised by the appearance of the Queen of the Night who demands vengeance, then gives her daughter a dagger and orders her to murder Sarastro.

Sarastro finds the desperate Pamina and consoles her, explaining that he is not interested in vengeance. Tamino and Papageno are told by a priest that they must remain silent and are not allowed to eat, a vow that Papageno immediately breaks

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The Magic Flute Act 2

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Scene 1 Act 1 #9 March of the Priests #10 Aria & Chorus …O Isis & Osiris, favor this noble pair Scene 1 #19 Trio…Now must we two forever part? #1 Introduction…O help me, protect me Scene 2 #2 Song…I am a man of widespread fame #11 Duet…Beware of woman’s crafty scheming #3 Aria…O image angel-like and fair # 12 Quintet…Ye? in this place of night and gloom? #4 Recitative & Aria…In lonely grief I am forsaken Scene 3 #5 Quintet…Hm! Hm! Hm! #13 Aria…All the world is full of lovers.

#14 Aria …Der Holle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen Scene 2 #15 Aria…Within these holy portals #6 Trio…My dainty lamkin, enter please Scene 4 #7 Duet…The man who feels sweet love’s emotion #17 Aria…Ah, I feel, to grief and sadness

#20 Aria…I’d give my finest feather Scene 3 Scene 5 #8 Finale…Your journey’s end you soon will reach #21 Finale…Soon speeds the morning light proclaiming