The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Merola Opera Program
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* Notes * The Merola Opera Program concluded 2014 with the Merola Grand Finale last night. The standouts were certainly sopranos. Amanda Woodbury’s Ophélie was translucent in “Hélas! votre âme” and her duet (“Doute de la lumière”) with Edward Nelson as Hamlet. Karen Chia-Ling Ho made for an impressively deranged Margherita in “L’altra notte in…
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumna Julie Adams (pictured left) was one of the winners of Met Council Auditions this year. She sang the role of Blanche DuBois in André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire as a participant of the Merola Opera Program this summer. The program concludes this Saturday with the Grand Finale. What…
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* Notes * Merola Opera Program‘s latest production of Don Giovanni (pictured left, photograph by Kristen Loken) opened with the first of two performances on Thursday night. Director James Darrah’s production goes against the text and the drama, with most of the action taking place in an artist’s studio, designed by Emily MacDonald and…
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* Notes * André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire was performed Thursday night by the Merola Opera Program at Everett Middle School in San Francisco. The production (pictured left with Julie Adams as Blanche DuBois and Casey Candebat as Harold “Mitch” Mitchell, photograph by Kristen Loken) directed by Jose Maria Condemi, is attractive. The set has…
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The 2014 winners of the Metropolitan Opera (pictured left) National Council Auditions are sopranos Julie Adams and Amanda Woodbury; tenor Yi Li; bass-baritone Ao Li; and bass Patrick Guetti. Four of these five are associated with the Merola Opera Program. Adams and Woodbury are Merolini this year. Yi Li was in Merola in 2012 and…
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* Notes * The artistic director of New York Festival of Song, Steven Blier, presided over a Schwabacher Debut Recital entitled In the Memory Palace yesterday evening. The program included diverse selections from song cycles and vocal quartets with an underlying theme of courtship. Blier accompanied four Adler Fellows on piano. The structure of the evening…
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SopranosJulie Adams, Burbank, CaliforniaAdelaide Boedecker, Sarasota, FloridaMaria Fasciano, Niagara Falls, New YorkKaren Chia-Ling Ho, Taipei, TaiwanYujin Kim, Deajeon, South KoreaTalya Lieberman, Forest Hills, New YorkAmanda Woodbury, Dallas, Texas Mezzo-SopranosEliza Bonet, Atlanta, GeorgiaShirin Eskandani, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaNian Wang, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China TenorsCasey Candebat, New Orleans, LouisianaMingjie Lei, Hengyang, Hunan, ChinaChong Wang, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, ChinaBenjamin Werley,…
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The incoming 2014 Adler Fellows are Maria Valdes, Zanda Švēde, Pene Pati, Efraín Solís, and Noah Lindquist. They join current Adlers (pictured left) Erin Johnson, Jacqueline Piccolino, A.J. Glueckert, Chuanyue Wang, Hadleigh Adams, and Philippe Sly. The outgoing 2013 Adler Fellows are soprano Marina Harris, mezzo-sopranos Laura Krumm and Renée Rapier, baritone Ao Li, bass-baritone…
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* Notes * The Adler Fellows for 2014 will not be announced for a few months, but Merola just ended, so one may as well speculate on which artists (pictured left in the 2013 Grand Finale, photograph by Kristen Loken) will return to San Francisco. Robert Mollicone will have completed two years as an Adler,…
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* Notes * Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia was performed last night by the Merola Opera Program at Everett Middle School in San Francisco. The production (pictured left with Katie Hannigan as Bianca, Alisa Jordheim as Lucia, Kate Allen as Lucretia and Chris Carr as Tarquinius; photograph by Kristen Loken) directed by Peter Kazaras, is elegant…
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