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Dear Friends,
Summer is almost here and with it many opportunities to see some of our past auditioners!
A reminder that this year's Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions will be on November 4th at the
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts. We are excited to have Christopher McBeth, Emily Pulley, and Darren Woods returning as judges.
Sincerely,
Kathy Pyeatt
Director
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Joshua Cook (Encouragement Winner 2016)
Joshua joins Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake, NY, for their 102nd season, premiering the role of Rosencrantz in Grammy Award winner Herschel Garfein's
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on July 20 and 22. Joshua will also perform the role of Henry Higgins at Seagle Music Colony in Lerner and Loewe's
My Fair Lady on August 16-19.
In the fall Joshua will begin his graduate studies at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, studying with Thomas Baresel.
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Steven Ebel (District Winner 2008)
In June:
3 - Priester (Priest) in Jörg Widmann's BABYLON in Amsterdam at the Concertgebow with the Okrest Philharmonie.
18 - Open Air Gala am Dom - Staatstheater Mainz - excerpts from Roméo, Ferrando & Danillo
30 - Direktor in FREAX - Theater Regensburg
Steven also begins staging rehearsals as Jonathan for Lydia Steier's well known production of Handel's SAUL with Staatstheater Mainz.
www.stevenebel.com
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Holly Flack (District Winner 2012, Florentine Opera Recital Winner)
Holly will cover the role of Olympia in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann with St. Petersburg Opera. Performances are June 2, 4, and 6.
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Kangmin Justin Kim (District & People's Choice Winner 2013)
Justin has recently performed Barzane in Vivaldi's Arsilda with Collegium 1704 in Bratislava and Lille. The tour will continue through Luxembourg, Caen, and Versailles. He also sings Nerone in L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Speranza in L'Orfeo, celebrating the 450th birth-year of C. Monteverdi on a world tour under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Cities include Venice, Salzburg, Paris, Berlin, Chicago, and New York.
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Kathy Pyeatt (Region 2nd Place 1997)
Kathy joins Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Danceworks for their production of Handel's Bestiary on June 16 & 17 at the Lynden Sculpture Garden.
www.milwaukeeoperatheatre.org
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Aaron Short (District Winner 2015))
This summer, Aaron will sing the role of the Padre in Mitch Leigh's
Man of La Mancha with Portland Opera as well as the role of Ferrando in Mozart's
Cosi fan tutte. La Mancha opens on June 9th and Cosi on July 14th. For more information, go to:
http://www.portlandopera.org
Aaron will also create the role of President Theodore Roosevelt in the world-premiere of
Two Yosemites, an environmental opera by Justin Ralls. More information at:
http://www.operatheatreoregon.com
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Christiaan Smith (Participant 2008)
Christiaan is enjoying excellent reviews performing the role of Robert Kinkaid in the musical version of Bridges of Madison County in Boston (music by Jason Robert Brown) with Speakeasy Theater. After which, he will be performing a concert on Harvard campus from his series Songs We Know: when hits become art, following two successful performances in Wisconsin recently with talkback sessions and one planned for Carnegie Hall on November 18 with pianist Dr. Casey Robards. For these concerts, Christiaan is creating his own arrangements of repertoire that emphasizes the beauty of art song and operatic style through the use of popular music in order to develop broader audiences for the art form. His arranging and songwriting skills will be put forth in an album of original content recorded in Nashville this summer to be released soon. He continues to make himself available for workshops, concerts and private lessons, as well as writing original music.
Please enjoy this youtube segment from Boston Public Radio's interview excerpt of Bridges..
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Nicholas Ward (Encouragement Award Winner 2014)
Nicholas joins the Crested Butte Music Festival's Opera Studio this summer in Crested Butte, Colorado. He will appear as Marco in Puccini's
Gianni Schicchi and Cacatois XXII in Offenbach's
L'Ile de Tulipatan, presented in a double bill. He will also participate in a song recital and Cabaret Bleu, a staged cabaret presented by the Opera Studio.
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Alexander York (Encouragement Award 2014)
Alexander is finishing up his first year living in Munich and studying German art song. He will be performing the role of James Ramsey in a world premiere of an opera based on Virginia Woolf's
To the Lighthouse at the Bregenz Festival, Austria in August.
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