MSM’s Opera Theatre program prepares students to successfully enter a competitive and evolving professional industry.
Thursday Evening Opera Scenes Series All performances are in Ades Performance Space
La liberazione di Ruggerio dall’isola d’Alcina (F. Caccini)
Scena Shakespeare: Scenes by the Bard
Le portrait de Manon (Massenet/Boyer), Pavane (Fauré/Montesquiou) and Angélique (Ibert/Nino)
L’enfant et les Sortilèges (Ravel/Colette) – concert version with MSM Symphony Orchestra
Undergraduate Chamber Opera— Title TBA
Svadba (Ana Sokolović)
Musical Theatre Lab— Broadway Babies
The Cunning Little Vixen (Janaček)
Undergraduate Production— Title TBA
Carleen Graham Dean of Vocal Arts cgraham@msmnyc.edu
Kristen Kemp Head of Music Staff kkemp@msmnyc.edu
Christina Teichroew Assistant Dean for Theatrical Production cteichrow@msmnyc.edu
Kathryn Miller Associate Director for Theatrical Operations kmiller@msmnyc.ed
Josi Petersen Brown Theatrical Production Ensembles Manager jpetersen@msmnyc.edu
Kristen Kemp Head of Music Staff for Graduate Opera Theatre
Travis Bloom, Vocal Coach
Jeremy Chan, Vocal Coach
Miriam Charney, Vocal Coach
Jeanne-Minette Cilliers, Vocal Coach
Ji Young Lee, Vocal Coach
Chun-Wei Kang, Vocal Coach
Carolyn Marlow, Musical Theatre Lab, Director
Jackson McKinnon, Assistant Conductor & Coach
Djordje Nesic, Vocal Coach
Gordon Ostrowski, Opera Workshop
Shane Schag, Vocal Coach
Eric Sedgwick, Vocal Coach
Evgenia Truksa, Vocal Coach
Kate Bergstrom — or Spring Chamber Opera, Stage Director
James Blaszko — or Fall Chamber Opera, Stage Director
Katherine Carter — or Thursday Evening Opera Scenes Series, Stage Director
John de los Santos — or Fall Mainstage, Stage Director
Jorge Parodi — or Fall Chamber Opera, Music Director & Conductor
Scott Parry — or Fall Undergraduate Opera Scenes & Spring Undergraduate Opera Greenfield, Stage Director
Kirk Severtson — or Spring Mainstage, Music Director & Conductor
Chloe Treat — or Spring Undergraduate Opera Riverside, Stage Director
Pierre Valet — or Fall Mainstage, Music Director & Conductor
Dennis Whitehead-Darling — or Spring Mainstage, Stage Director
13 original unaccompanied songs based on the singers’ own personal stories during the pandemic.
Undergraduate Vocal Ensembles
Graduate Vocal Ensembles
MSM Opera Theatre
2016–17 La clemenza di Tito, W. A. Mozart Der Zigeunerbaron, Johann Strauss
2015–16 The Dangerous Liaisons, Conrad Susa Persée et Andromède, Jacques Ibert and L’enfant et les sortilèges, Maurice Ravel
2014–15 Macbeth, Ernest Bloch Die Zauberflöte, W.A. Mozart
2013–14 The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson Orlando Paladino, Franz Joseph Haydn
2012–13 Thais, Jules Massenet Aufsteig Und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Kurt Weill
2011–12 Cosi fan tutte, W. A. Mozart The Ghost of Versailles, John Corigliano
2010–11 Summer and Smoke, Lee Hoiby El amor brujo and La vida breve, Manuel De Falla
2009–10 Pénélope, Gabriel Fauré Le nozze di Figaro, W. A. Mozart
2008–09 Later the Same Evening, John Musto Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss
2007–08 Street Scene, Kurt Weill Griffelkin, Lukas Foss
2006–07 L’Italiana in Londra, Domenico Cimarosa Lord Byron’s Love Letter, Raffaelo de Banfield, and The Village Singer, Stephen Paulus
2005–06 Cendrillon, Jules Massenet A Dinner Engagement, Lennox Berkeley and Riders to the Sea, Ralph Vaughan Williams
2004–05 Zemire und Azor (Beauty and the Beast), Louis Spohr A Month in the Country, Lee Hoiby
2003–04 Mirandolina, Bohuslav Martinu A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Benjamin Britten
2002–03 Béatrice et Bénédict, Hector Berlioz The Seagull, Thomas Pasatieri
2001–02 Der Wildschütz, Albert Lortzing Amelia Goes to the Ball, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Roman Fever, Robert Ward
2000–01 The Rape of Lucretia, Benjamin Britten The House of Seven Gables, Scott Eyerly
Students accepted into the Opera Theatre also have the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive outreach training program, including Discover Opera! and an abridged classic opera, Amato’s Opera-in-Brief.
Other important elements of the opera program are the Opera Workshop and Opera Lab, which provide appropriate venues for singers to develop stagecraft and dramatic interpretation as well as gain additional performance experience.
Kate Aldrich (Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Colón) Liam Bonner (Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, English National Opera) J’nai Bridges (Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera) Andrea Carroll (Houston Grand Opera, Wiener Staatsoper) Anthony Roth Costanzo (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, English National Opera) Lauren Flanigan (Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, La Scala) Susan Graham (Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Paris Opera) Soloman Howard (Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera) Lauren Jelencovich (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis) Sol Jin (Metropolitan Opera) Brandon Jovanovich (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Oper Berlin) Kathleen Kim (Metropolitan Opera) Catherine Malfitano (Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Paris Opera; Voice Faculty, MSM) Johanna Meier (Metropolitan Opera, Bayreuth) Laquita Mitchell (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Comique) Simon O’Neill (Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala), Kyle Pfortmiller (Metropolitan Opera) Amy Shoremount-Obra (Metropolitan Opera) Krysty Swann (Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago) Dawn Upshaw (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Salzburg Festival) Yunpeng Wang (Metropolitan Opera) Matthew Worth (Dallas Opera, Atlanta Opera) Dolora Zajick (Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago)
View the MSM Opera Theatre discography, professionally produced and released on Albany Records, here.
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