Summer Opera Festival 2012
Joint BCO and CUA summer opera festival is a highly professional training opera program for rising professionals.
Forty three singers that have been selected to participate in the program this year will receive individual attention from the leading teachers, coaches and professionals in the area.
Festival program includes voice lessons, coachings, diction lessons, daily yoga sessions, various workshops, master classes and vocal performance seminars.
Faculty: Rick Christman, Fabiana Bravo, Sharon Christman, Stanley Cornett, Francois Loup, Giovanni Reggioli, Denyce Graves,Henriette Lund, Mattia D'Affuso, Nicholas Catravas, David Ballena, Kayme Henkel, David Hill, Michael Parker, Seyoung Jeong,
Kathleen Scott, Joel Borrelli-Boudreau, Katerina Souvorova, Kethia Clairvoyant, Guillaume Tourniaire, Peter Kozma, Kate Huntress-Reeve.
Two intense weeks of staging and music rehearsals will result in four performances of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Bizet's Carmen as well as a separate
performance of The evening of the opera scenes and arias.
All performances are fully staged, in costume, sung in Italian (Le Nozze di Figaro) and French with English spoken dialogs (Carmen) and projected English supertitles.
The performances of the operas as well as the concert of the opera scenes and arias are accompanied by BCO chamber orchestra.
G. Bizet Carmen
Friday, June 15, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 17, 3:00pm
Director: Guillaume Tourniaire. Conductors: Joel Borrelli-Boudreau, Katerina Souvorova
W. Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro
Saturday, June 16 , 3:00pm
Sunday, June 17, 7.30pm
Director: Peter Kozma, Conductor: Kathleen Scott
An evening of Arias and Opera Scenes
Saturday, June 16, 7.30pm
Director: Kate Huntress-Reeve, Rick Christman.
Conductors: Kathleen Scott, Joel Borelli Boudreau, Katerina Souvorova
All festival performances are presented at the Ward Hall of the Benjamin T.Rome School of Music, at Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington DC 20064
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Online Adult: $25, Student: $15. At the door Adult: $25, Student: $15. Groups of 10 and more: $20.
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