FOLLIES 2021: Celebrating 10 years of the Opera Follies Tradition Friday I October 29, 2021 I 7:30 pm Saturday I October 30, 2021 I 2:30pm & 7:30 pm Sunday I October 31, 2021 I 2:30 pm Vereschagin Alumni House Pacific Opera Theatre James Haffner, stage director Eric Dudley, music director Carl Pantle, repetiteur/asst. music director
11th Performance I 2021–22 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific
CONCERT PROGRAM I OCTOBER 29 - 31, 2021 PROLOGUE “The Sound of Music” The Sound of Music (1959)
Jordan
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) INVOCATION “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” The Frogs (1974) Stephen Sondheim (b.1930)
Mateus & Eli
OPENING MONTAGE “Putting It Together” Eli, Hanna & Sunday in the Park with George (1984) The Company Stephen Sondheim (b.1930) “Comedy Tonight” A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) Stephen Sondheim (b.1930)
Dion, Riley, Alexis, Mia, Susan, Joshua C., Filo, Rose & The Company
“Another Op’nin’, Another Show” Kiss Me, Kate (1948) Cole Porter (1891 - 1964)
“There’s No Business Like Show Business” Annie Get Your Gun (1946) Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989)
Joshua P., Michael, Leo, Ryan, Juliette, Ria, Nikki, Jordan & The Company Brylan, Elyse, Elaine, Mara & The Company
CONCERT PROGRAM I OCTOBER 29 - 31 , 2021 CAROUSEL MONTAGE Carousel (1945) Richard Rodgers (1902 - 1979) “What’s the Use of Wond’rin’?” “When the Children Are Asleep” “If I Loved You”
Rose Brylan & Joshua C. Joshua P. & Susan
BRUBECK MONTAGE Selections from The Real Ambassadors (1961) Music by Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) Lyrics by Dave & Iola Brubeck (1923-2014) “The Real Ambassador”
Eli, Leo & Lily
“My One Bad Habit” (additional lyrics by Ella Fitzgerald)
Elaine
“Since Love Had Its Way”
Ryan & Riley
“I Didn’t Know Till You Told Me”
Alexis & Mia
RHYTHM MONTAGE “Fascinating Rhythm” Lady, Be Good! (1924) George Gershwin (1898 -1937) “I Won’t Dance” Roberta (1935) Jerome Kern (1885 - 1945) “I Got Rhythm” Girl Crazy (1930) George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
Juliette
Dion
Juliette, Dion & The Company
CONCERT PROGRAM I OCTOBER 29 - 31 , 2021 AUTUMN MONTAGE “September Song” Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) Kurt Weill (1990 - 1950)
Joshua P.
“Autumn Leaves” Les Portes de la nuit (1946) Joseph Kosma (1905 - 1969) English Lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1909 - 1976)
Nikki
“Try to Remember” The Fantasticks (1960) Harvey Schmidt (1929 - 2018)
Riley
Carl Pantle, pianist NEW MUSIC Ragtime (1997) Stephen Flaherty (b. 1960)
Joshua P., Elyse, Dion, Filo, Brylan & The Company Carl Pantle, pianist
RAINBOW MONTAGE “Look, Look to the Rainbow” Finian’s Rainbow (1947) Burton Lane (1912 - 1997) “Rainbow Connection” The Muppet Movie (1979) Paul Williams (b. 1940) & Kenneth Ascher (b.1944) “Someone Over the Rainbow” The Wizard of Oz (1939) Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986) Carl Pantle, pianist
Mara
Michael
Ria
CONCERT PROGRAM I OCTOBER 29 - 31 , 2021
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961) Frank Loesser (1910 - 1969)
Joshua C., Joshua P., Elaine & The Company
KISS MONTAGE “One Kiss” The New Moon (1927) Sigmund Romberg (1887 - 1951)
Susan
“A Kiss in the Dark” Orange Blossoms (1922) Victor Herbert (1859 - 1924)
Ryan
“One More Kiss” Follies (1971) Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
Susan & Juliette
CONCERT PROGRAM I OCTOBER 29 - 31 , 2021 MOON MONTAGE “Old Devil Moon” Finian’s Rainbow (1947) Burton Lane (1912 - 1997)
Filo
“Moonfall” The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985) Rupert Holmes (1947)
Nikki
“Moon-faced, Starry-Eyed” Street Scene (1946) Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
Leo
“Blue Moon” Hollywood Hotel (1937) Richard Rodgers (1902 - 1979)
Josh C.
“What Good Would the Moon Be?” Street Scene (1946) Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
Jordan
EPILOGUE “Our Time” Merryily We Roll Along (1981) Stephen Sondheim (b.1930)
Filo, Ryan, Elyse & The Company
FINALE “You’ll Never Walk Alone” Carousel (1945) Richard Rodgers (1902 -1979)
Brylan, Elyse & The Company
THE OPERA THEATRE ENSEMBLE
The Company Mara Baldwin Mateus Barioni Eli Bocks Alexis Bondoc Riley Brearton Joshua Cabardo Elyse Coty Rose Dickson Filo Ebid Brylan Finley Juliette Frediere Hanna Grossenbacher
Elaine Hanley Leo Hearl Nikki Ikeda Mia Janosik Michael Megenney Dion Nickelson Carl Pantle Ria Patel Susan Perez Joshua Porter Lily Tumbale Ryan Vang Jordan Yang
James Haffner (Stage Director) is a Professor of Opera at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. His primary research interest is how the Michael Chekhov technique is applied to the training of opera singers. As a published practitioner of the technique, he is a certified teacher and serves as an Associate Teacher/Director with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. James is a frequent guest artist, having taught workshops at Stanford University, Oberlin Conservatory, Bay View Theatre Institute, National Opera Association, the Directors’ Lab—West and the American Choral Directors Association Western Division Conference. More recently he taught as part of the AIMS—Graz program. A Fulbright scholar (Komische Oper, Berlin), James’ work has been recognized by the National Opera Association and the American College Theatre Festival. He has served as Producing Stage Director for the Stockton Opera Association and has worked with the Bay View and Bear Valley Music Festivals.
THE OPERA THEATRE ENSEMBLE Eric Dudley (Music Director) leads a multi-faceted career as a conductor, composer, vocalist and pianist deeply engaged in the creation of music both old and new. Since its founding in 2009, Eric has been a member of the genre-defying vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, touring worldwide and recording a wide array of new works with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble. He came to the Bay Area in 2016 to serve as interim director for the orchestra program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and now enters his fourth season as Artistic Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. While in New York, he conducted and performed with organizations as diverse as Ekmeles and Tenet vocal ensembles, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Ensemble Signal, Bard Summerscape Opera, the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Previously, he was an assistant conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, and recent guest engagements include the Ojai Festival in California, Ensemble L’Instant Donné in France, and the Adelaide Symphony in Australia. As a pianist and chamber musician, he has worked with members of Novus New York and the Cincinnati and Princeton symphony orchestras, and his own music has been premiered and recorded by Roomful of Teeth. He taught at Mannes College/The New School for Music in New York, where he directed the Mannes Prep Philharmonic and The New School Chorus, and this year marks his fourth as a member of the voice and ensembles faculty at The University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music.
THE OPERA THEATRE ENSEMBLE Carl Pantle (Repetiteur/Asst. Music Director) is a vocal coach, music director, and accompanist who has worked with the San Francisco Opera Center, West Bay Opera, Opera San Jose, and the Bay Area Opera Theater Institute. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Merola Program at the San Francisco Opera Center and was a coach/accompanist on staff at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His musical theater credits include music directing productions at St. Mary’s College, 42nd Street Moon, and the Throckmorton Theatre where he was Music Director in Residence. Mr. Pantle has collaborated with some of the finest talent Broadway has to offer, including Daniel Reichard, Keala Seattle, Julia Murney, Alysha Umphress, Laura Benanti and Patti LuPone. Carl was raised in Oakley and is a 1998 graduate of Liberty High School in Brentwood. He has most recently come to Pacifc as a transfer student into the Performance Program with an emphasis in Voice. Carl’s personal and professional goal is to raise awareness that the arts can be a vehicle for positive change in the hearts and minds of our community, and all over the world.
THE OPERA THEATRE ENSEMBLE Hailed as a “rich-toned alto” with “riveting presence,” (The New York Times), mezzo-soprano Virginia Warnken Kelsey is known for her dynamic interpretations of Baroque opera, oratorio, and contemporary chamber music. Virginia is an original member of Roomful of Teeth, a Grammy Award-winning experimental vocal ensemble dedicated to celebrating the boundless expressive potential of the human voice. By engaging collaboratively with artists, thinkers, and community leaders from around the world, Roomful of Teeth seeks to uplift and amplify voices old and new while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music. Outside of her work with Roomful of Teeth, she specializes in the historical performance practice of music predating the year 1750. She is a company member of the Grammy Award-winning Boston Early Music Festival Opera, with whom she has performed many roles. In 2019, her performance as La Conversation in BEMF’s recording of Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Opera Performance category. She has appeared as a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, BBC Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque, Spoleto Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival, among many others. She has a BM in Opera from Manhattan School of Music and an MM in Early Music Vocal Performance from Yale University.
THE OPERA THEATRE ENSEMBLE Daniel Ebbers, Professor of Voice, joined the faculty of the University of the Pacific in the fall 0f 2004. He holds the B.M. in voice from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the M.M. in voice from the University of Southern California. In the Conservatory of Music, Professor Ebbers teaches vocal performance and has been the Managing Director and Instructor at the Pacific Opera Institute. Highlights of Daniel Ebbers’ performances include a critically acclaimed appearance as Sir Bedivere with baritone, Thomas Hampson at the Washington National Cathedral, in Elinor Remick Warren’s The Legend of King Arthur. As an artist in residence with the Los Angeles Opera, Mr. Ebbers has performed as Gastone in La Traviata, and covered leading roles including Don Ottavio, Albert Herring, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ernesto,and Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri. An accomplished concert artist, he has appeared with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony performing Stravinsky’s Mass, and has appeared twice at both Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Mr. Ebbers has performed at both Chicago’s new Orchestra Hall and the Chicago Lyric Opera in Handel’s Messiah. A distinguished Mozart interpreter, he has appeared as Don Ottavio with Opera Theater of Connecticut, Belmonte in San Diego Comic Opera’s production of Abduction from the Seraglio, as tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, at the Ruldophinum in Prague.
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This performance is made possible in part through philanthropic funding from The George Buckbee Conservatory Opera Fund The Friends of Opera Academic Excellence in Opera Endowment Anonymous Donor UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS Nov. 5 | 7:30pm Nov. 14 | 2:30pm University Concert Band FOCM: The Black Oak and Symphonic Wind Ensemble Ensemble Concert Faye Spanos Concert Hall Faye Spanos Concert Hall Nov. 15 | 7:30pm Nov. 10 | 7:30pm Pacific Chamber Music Violin and Viola Recital Recital with Igor Veligan Recital Hall Recital Hall
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