Follow Me from Camelot (1960)
Prologue from Into the Woods (1987)
Frederick Loewe (1901–1988) Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021)
Alexis, Filo, Brylan, Mia, Jordan, Gerardo, Michel, Kailey, Hanna, Rose, and the Company
WELCOME
Belle from Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Jordan, Ryan, and the Company
Gabby, Hanna, Gerardo, Izzy, Michael, Vanessa, Ria, Ian, and Charlize
Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast
Nikki Michel and the Company
Gabby, Hanna, Gerardo, Izzy, Michael, and Vanessa
A NEW WORLD MONTAGE
A Whole New World from Aladdin (2014)
Alan Menken (b. 1949)
You’ve Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story (1995)
Friend Like Me from Aladdin (1992)
Ian and Bell Filo
Alan Menken (b. 1949) Randy Newman (b. 1943)
Riley
Waiting on a Miracle from Encanto (2021)
Alexis
Million to One from Cinderella (2015)
Andie
Alan Menken (b. 1949) Germaine Franco (b. 1987) Camila Cabello (b. 1997) Scott Harris (b. 1985)
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes from Cinderella (1950)
Juliette
A Very Nice Prince from Into the Woods (1987)
Jordan and Brylan Agony from Into the Woods (1987) Riley and Ryan
Mack David (1912–1993) Al Hoffman (1902–1960) Jerry Livingston (1909–1987) Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021)
Someday My Prince Will Come from Snow White (1937)
Ria
Prince Ali from Aladdin (1992)
Filo and the Company
ENCHANTED MONTAGE
Once Upon a Dream from Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Bell Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific (1949)
Ryan
When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio (1940) Kailey
Frank Churchill (1901–1942)
Alan Menken (b. 1949)
Sammy Fain (1902-1989) Jack Lawrence (1912-2009)
Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)
Leigh Harline (1907–1969) Ned Washington (1901–1976)
Castle on a Cloud from Les Misérables (1985)
Rose
Come to Me, Bend to Me from Brigadoon (1947)
Michel
Gingerbread Castle Scene from Hänsel und Gretel (1893)
Nikki and Mia
Vilja from The Merry Widow (1907)
Kailey and the Company
It Takes Two from Into the Woods (1987)
Filo and Brylan
BEWITCHED MONTAGE
Claude-Michel Schönberg (b. 1944)
That Old Black Magic from Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Gerardo
Frederick Loewe (1901–1988) Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921) Franz Lehár (1870–1948)
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021)
Robert Emmett Dolan (1908–1972)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered from Pal Joey (1940)
Charlize
I Put a Spell on You from Nina Simone’s album I Put a Spell on You (1965)
Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) Jay Hawkins (1929–2000)
Brylan
The Last Midnight from Into the Woods (1987)
Juliette
No One Is Alone from Into the Woods (1987)
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021)
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021)
Jordan, Filo, Michel, Alexis, and the Company
If You Believe from The Wiz (1978)
Elaine
EPILOGUE
This Is Me from The Greatest Showman (2017)
Elaine, Filo, and the Company
Charlie Smalls (1943–1987)
Jenny Bicks (b. 1963)
Bill Condon (b. 1955)
James Haffner, professor of opera at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in directing and an Artist’s Diploma in opera stage directing. He is also a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov acting technique and an artistic associate with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium.
James’s production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola took first place in the 2001 National Opera Association Production Competition and was a finalist both at the regional and national levels in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). La Cenerentola holds the distinction of being the first opera to be invited to perform in the KCACTF national festival. James’s work has been further recognized by the KCACTF with encore productions of his reworking of Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill and the West Coast premiere of Glen Roven’s musical Heart’s Desire. The National Opera Association has also recognized his productions of Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. His additional significant credits include the German premiere of Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day; Das Mahagonny Songspiel, which was presented as part of the premiere Brecht Fest at the Berliner Ensemble; and Dido and Aeneas with the first annual Museumsinsel Fest, Berlin.
James has served as producing artistic director of the Stockton Opera Association since 2007 and has worked with both the Bay View and Bear Valley Music Festivals. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab–West and has served as an adjudicator for the Irene Dalis Vocal Competition (Opera San Jose). A Fulbright Scholar, he has taught at the Technische Universität, Berlin, as well as the University of Kentucky–Lexington, Miami University (Ohio), Webster University, and California State University–Fullerton.
At the Conservatory of Music, James teaches Opera Theatre Workshop (beginning and advanced sections), Introduction to Lyric Diction, Opera Literature, and Opera Production. He also produces and directs the Pacific Opera Theatre productions.
Eric Dudley is an associate professor of voice and conductor/ coach for Pacific’s Opera Theatre. He leads a multifaceted career as a conductor, composer, vocalist, and pianist engaged in the performance and creation of contemporary music. He was a founding member of the genre-defying vocal octet Roomful of Teeth since its formation in 2009 to 2021, touring worldwide and recording a vast array of newly commissioned works with the Grammy Award–winning ensemble.
Eric is in his fifth season as artistic director for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and serves as the principal conductor for the Bendigo Festival of Exploratory Music in Australia. He also recently led Roomful of Teeth and Ensemble L’Instant Donné in a production with renowned director Peter Sellars at the Paris Festival d’Automne.
While living in New York, Eric conducted and performed with organizations as diverse as the Ekmeles and Tenet vocal ensembles, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Talea Ensemble, the American Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Signal, and the New York Philharmonic. He was an assistant conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra under Rossen Milanov for several seasons. Some of his recent guest engagements include those with the Ojai Festival in California, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in New York and Finland, the Adelaide Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. He served on the faculty of the New School and Mannes College of Music in New York, where he directed the Mannes Prep Philharmonic and the New School Chorus. As a pianist and chamber musician, Eric has performed with members of Novus New York and the Cincinnati and Princeton symphony orchestras. His own music has been premiered and recorded by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Quey Percussion Duo, and Roomful of Teeth.
Eric holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music and both master’s and doctoral degrees in orchestral conducting from Yale, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize.
Carl Pantle is a lecturer and collaborative pianist at the University of the Pacific and a recent graduate earning his bachelor’s degree in vocal performance. As a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, he brings to life dozens of operatic and musical theater scores, and his collaborations include those with Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti.
As a pianist, arranger, and orchestrator in affiliation with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, he performed and recorded commissioned works by Stephen Schwartz and Jake Heggie. Carl maintains a successful voice studio in Oakley, California, and is enthusiastically involved in the arts and arts education in his community.
Sopranos
Kailey Diggs
Juliette Frediere Nikki Ikeda
Ria Patel
Charlize Price Bell Souza Vanessa Vazquez-Bartolo Jordan Yang
Mezzo-Sopranos/Altos
Gabby Baluyot Alexis Bondoc Rose Dickson Brylan Finley Hanna Grossenbacher Elaine Hanley Mia Janosik Izzy Martinez Andie Reposa
The Company
Tenors Riley Brearton Filo Ebid Michel (Michael) Megenney Ian Orejana
Baritones/Basses Gerardo Lopez Michael Robertson
Ryan Vang
This production is presented with support from the George Buckbee Conservatory Opera Fund.
PACIFIC FACULTY TEACHERS AND COACHES
Voice and Opera
Daniel Ebbers, Program Director Yejee Choi Eric Dudley James Haffner Virginia Kelsey Carl Pantle
Special Thanks: Tuxedo Express Midtown Creperie Cameron Jones ’23, B.S. Music Industry Studies
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