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STUDENT PREVIEW
Middle and High School students have the opportunity to experience Opera first-hand by attending a final dress rehearsal. For many of our children, live performance and Opera is not something to which they have been exposed. In conjunction with the Student Preview, a Mobile Opera Teaching Artist visits the participating students prior to the performance to tell them the story of the Opera and to discuss their role as an audience member.
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Board Of Directors Executive Board Bruce Earnest, President Laureen Lynn, Vice-President* Charmein Moser, Treasurer Leslie Suffich, Secretary R. Terry Hartley, Immediate Past President Directors Sheryl Bates Lynda Carroll, PhD Sorina S. Christian Finn Cox Martin Flechsenhar Joe Gerard* Tonya Gollotte Duane A. Graham* Jean Harper Ann Hearin Brigitte Kemnade Michael O. Landers Heather Cook Lawton Dr. Christopher McCaghren Arthur Oken Danny K. Patterson
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Mobile Opera is a member of The National Opera Association. This program has been made possible in part by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Mobile, the Mobile County Commission, Mobile Arts Council.
Featuring
André Chiang, Myles Garver, Rachel Alexander Gibson, Kathryn Drake Hedlund, and Peter James Lake with narration by
Scott Wright and Stacey Driskell and accompaniment by
Eric Andries
Program Rigoletto (highlights)
Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901 Rigoletto..................................................................................AndrÉ Chiang Gilda..................................................................... Kathryn Drake Hedlund Duke of Mantua...................................................................... Myles Garver Maddelena........................................................Rachel Alexander Gibson Narrators...............................................Stacey Driskell & Scott Wright
15 Minute Intermission Carmen
(highlights)
Georges Bizet 1838-1875 Carmen...............................................................Rachel Alexander Gibson Don JosÉ...............................................................................Peter James Lake Escamillo..................................................................................AndrÉ Chiang Micaela............................................................... Kathryn Drake Hedlund Narrators............................................ Stacey Driskell & Scott Wright
Artists
Eric Andries
André Chiang
Myles Garver
Eric Andries, rehearsal accompanist, is pleased to be returning to Mobile Opera where he has accompanied several productions, including The Crucible, The Merry Widow, Tosca, Don Pasquale and La Fanciulla del West. He has a wide range of musical experience in several genres. He has been the rehearsal pianist for several opera companies, including Des Moines, Amarillo, Omaha, Hidden Valley Ensemble, Shreveport, Mobile, Syracuse, Indianapolis, and the Ashlawn Music Festival. Eric is an avid jazz pianist who has worked with Princess Cruise Line. He was the keyboardist/ arranger for a salsa music group that was featured at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. A native of Baton Rouge, he holds degrees from LSU in piano performance and has studied in France and Austria.
Touted by the Oregonian as “vocally commanding”, baritone, André Chiang’s recent engagements include returns to Virginia Opera as Fiorello/Officer (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Opera Birmingham as Belcore (L’elisir d’amore). Previous credits include Young Galileo/Salviati (Galileo Galilei), Argante (Rinaldo), Falke (Die Fledermaus), and Ford (Falstaff) with Portland Opera; Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd) with Virginia Opera; Masetto (Don Giovanni), El Gallo (The Fantasticks), Morales/ Le Dancaïre (Carmen) and Motorcycle Cop/Guard 1 (Dead Man Walking) with Shreveport Opera; Marco (Gianni Schicchi) with Mobile Opera; and Lancelot in Camelot at the Glimmerglass Festival. Competition honors include the winner of the 59th NFMC 2017 Biennial Young Artist Award and the 45th NATS Artist Awards Competition.
Myles Garver, tenor, is a Mobile, Alabama native and South Alabama graduate currently finishing grad voice studies at LSU with teacher Dennis Jesse. Mr. Garver has appeared in performances with Mobile Opera, Pensacola Opera, Asheville Lyric, Brevard Music Center, Opera Louisiane, LSU Opera, and University of South Alabama Opera. Past roles include Orlando (Orlando Paladino), Fenton (Falstaff), MacHeath (Threepenny Opera), Giove/Anfinomo (Ulysses), Tom Rakewell (Rake’s Progress), Spoletta (Tosca), Nick (La Fanciulla del West), Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Captain Corcoran (HMS Pinafore), Fabrizio (Light in the Piazza), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), and Jenik (Bartered Bride), among others.
Artists
Rachel Alexander Gibson
Kathryn Drake Hedlund
Peter James Lake
Rachel Alexander Gibson, mezzo soprano, is a native of Tupelo, Mississippi. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where she majored in Voice. She then moved to Dallas, Texas, where she earned her Master of Music degree from Southern Methodist University and performed with The Dallas Opera. Rachel is currently a Doctoral Candidate at The University of Southern Mississippi, and a Music Instructor at Meridian Community College. Rachel is very excited to be returning to Mobile. Her first performance with Mobile Opera was in last year’s production of Suor Angelica, in which she played La Zia Principessa.
Soprano, Kathryn Drake Hedlund’s recent performances include the NATS Artist Awards National Semifinals in Chicago, Mobile Opera’s Winter Gala Concerts, singing the role of La Ciesca in Mobile Opera’s Gianni Schicchi, singing the role of La Suora Infermiera in Mobile Opera’s Suor Angelica, as well as frequently soloing with the Eastern Shore Choral Society. Kathryn holds degrees from the University of Michigan and LSU, and spent two summers as an apprentice artist at Des Moines Metro Opera. She was chosen as a Gulf Coast Regional Finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions three years in a row. Kathryn joined the voice faculty at the University of Mobile as Assistant Professor of Voice in 2012, and resides in Mobile with her husband Ryan, son Theo, and giant cat Micio.
As a Resident Artist for Opera North, Peter made his debut as Paris in La belle Hélène. He has performed with Ashlawn Opera and as a studio artist with Chautauqua Opera. He was a Festival Artist at the Sherrill Milnes VOICE Experience and won the Savannah Voice Festival’s Opera Idol competition. He will perform at the Sherrill Milnes Gala in New York this spring. At Central City Opera he won the 2016 Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Apprentice Award and performed multiple roles. He was a Herndon Foundation Young Artist at Virginia Opera and performed the Duke in Mississippi Opera’s young artist performance of Rigoletto. In May he was Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia for Natchez Festival of Music He earned his Master of Music in Voice from the University of Southern Mississippi.
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The University of South Alabama Department of Music, through its innovative curriculum, empowers professional musicians, music educators, and those who wish to enrich their lives through the arts. The Department serves the needs of the University to promote general education and to provide a vital cultural link to the great state of Alabama and to the Gulf Coast region. Its excellent facilities and faculty, promotion of technology, and dedication to life-long learning provide a wide spectrum of experiences for both the student and the community.
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