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Auditions!

Bel Cantanti Opera is announcing auditions for the Joint BCO and CUA Summer Opera Festival 2012, an intensive two week pay-to-sing program for young professionals.

Auditions are by appointment only. Singers interested in applying for the festival should contact General and Artistic Director of BCO, Dr. Souvorova. ( Apply for the Festival )

More information about the auditions and the festival (click)

Season 2011 - 2012

" Bel Cantanti reminds us that our region's smaller companies are arguably smarter, better stewards of the art form, spending more wisely than the big-budget houses, presenting sturdy, smaller-scaled evenings of opera..."

                                                                                     Tom Huizenga. Washington Post, September 27, 2010

W. Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor

(The Impresario)

J. Offenbach's Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le...

(Mr. Cauliflower will be at home ... )

"... Stage director Guillaume Tourniaire worked miracles with his cramped space, particularly in the Offenbach; the performers camped it up with goofy disco moves and deliberately schlocky stage business ... soprano Kimberly Christie displayed both uninhibited movement and shining vocal abilities... Everyone gave their all, the music was delightful, the sets and staging were entertaining, and the vitality of the art form continued to inspire and transport..." _Washington Post

The Impresario, Mozart’s hysterical farce about operatic auditions transports you to Salzburg of 1930s, where two primadonnas fight for the attention of an agent, who is desperately trying to get rid of them both.

In his marvelous opéra bouffe Mr. Cauliflower will be at home ... J. Offenbach lightheartedly ridicules a newly rich, pretentious bourgeois Monsieur Choufleuri at his attempt to impress the “”upper crust” guests at his dinner party, butchering Italian language, well known operatic tunes and style of Italian Grand Opera itself.

Fully staged, in costume, with English super titles. Accompanied by a chamber orchestra directed by BCO Artistic director Dr. Katerina Souvorova.

Stage Director: Guillaume Tourniaire. Costume Designer: Lois Dinlop.

Herr Eiler: Adam Juran, Frau Herz: Elisabeth Turchi, Fraulein Silberklang: Nola Richardson, Herr Buff: Kwang Kyu Lee, Herr Frank: Michael Brown.

Ernestine: Kimberly Christie, Chrysodule Babylas: Eric Gramatges, Monsieur Choufleuri: Kwang Kyu Lee, Petermann: Adam Juran, Madame Balandard: Monica Soto-Gil, Monsieur Balandard:Ted Kerrick, Madame Le Tilleul: Megan Goates, Monsieur Le Tilleul: John Danley, Monsieur de Fort Canon: Michael Brown, Madame de St. Hermione: Reba Winstead.

Saturday, January 28, 2012, 7:30pm

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 3:00pm

Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD.

Thursday, February 2, 2012, 7:30pm

Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Court, NW,Washington D.C.

Tickets are sold online through www.eventbrite.com Buy tickets

Online Adult: $38, Student: $15. At the door Adult: $40, Student: $15. Groups of 10 and more: $30.

Ticket information: (301) 266-7546 or at tickets@belcantanti.com

Eugene Onegin

A lyric opera in three acts, seven scenes by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

One of the greatest and timeless jewels of Russian Opera, Eugene Onegin, based on a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin, will not leave your heart untouched.

This is a story of love and rejection, unfulfilled hope and bitter regret, friendship and betrayal. Poetry of Pushkin and music of Tchaikovsky combined gave life to a masterpiece of astonishing beauty, filled with deep sincerity and yearning passion.

Opera is performed in Russian with projected English super titles.

Friday, April 27, 2012, 7:30pm

Saturday, April 28, 2012, 7:30pm

Saturday, May 5, 2012, 7:30pm

Sunday, May 6, 2012, 3:00pm

Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD.

Tickets are sold online through www.eventbrite.com Buy tickets

Online Adult: $38, Student: $15. At the door Adult: $40, Student: $15. Groups of 10 and more: $30.

Ticket information: (301) 266-7546 or at tickets@belcantanti.com



Past performances

G. Rossini's La Cenerentola



Angelina (Cenerentola): Sarah Davis, Prince Ramiro: Rexford Tester, Dandini: Thomas Gunther, Don Magnifico: Andrew Adelsberger, Clorinda: Kimberly Christie, Tisbe: Emily Crockett, Alidoro: Jason Moon.

Stage Director Julia Mintzer

General and Artistic Director, conductor Katerina Souvorova

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Bel Cantanti Opera Company's Benefit Concert

Seyoung Jeong, Maryann Mootos, Younjoo An, Lingling Peng, Anamer Castrello, Katelyn Jackman, Laura Bass, Emily Crockett, Crossley Hawn, Megan Ihnen, Jennifer Weingartner, Denise Young, Joann Moorer, Elisabeth Reeves, Susan Preuter, Zoe Kanter, Anais Naharro-Murphy, Kevin Courtemanche, Eric Gramatges, Jason Moon, Benjamin LaPrairie, Kwang Kyu Lee.