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Mark Adamo’s

Little Women Choral work includes *HU[H[L +VTPUV, commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Washington and introduced at the Kennedy Center in 2000: .HYSHUK, for Francisco Nuùez and the Young People’s Chorus of New York, introduced in 2006; and No. 10: :\WYLTL =PY[\L, recorded by Seattle’s Esoterics and released in spring 2008.

Mark Adamo began his education at New York University, where he subsequently taught composition; as a freshman in the Dramatic Writing Program, he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music Degree J\T SH\KL in composition from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was awarded the Theodore Presser prize for outstanding undergraduate achievement in composition. His music is published by G. Schirmer.

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While Mark Adamo has composed a substantial

folio of chamber, choral and orchestral music, the Philadelphia-born composer-librettist’s principal work has been for the opera house. Commissioned for a 1998 première by Houston Grand Opera, Little Women, after the UV]LS I` 3V\PZH 4H` (SJV[[ ^HZ [OL ÄYZ[ VWLYH MVY ^OPJO Adamo composed both music and libretto; it has been nationally telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, released on CD by Ondine Records, and heard in over 70 national and international engagements from New York to Mexico City, Minneapolis, Adelaide, Tel Aviv, Calgary and Tokyo, including two for which Adamo served as stage director. His second opera, Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, after Aristophanes, was commissioned and introduced to comparable critical acclaim by Houston .YHUK 6WLYH MVY P[Z ÄM[PL[O HUUP]LYZHY` ZLHZVU PU 4HYJO 2005 and made its East Coast dÊbut in March 2006 at New York City Opera, where Adamo was composer-in-residence from 2001–2005. In January 2009, San Francisco Opera announced it had commissioned Adamo to compose both score and libretto for an opera entitled ;OL .VZWLS VM 4HY` Magdalene, of which the company plans a première in June 2013.

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Mark Adamo (b.1962)

Libretto by Mark Adamo after the novel by Louisa May Alcott

World Premieres Houston Grand Opera, March 13, 1998

At the University of Colorado Boulder Music Theatre—directed by Leigh Holman and Christopher Zemliauskas, April 25, 26, 27, 28, 2013

Other Operas by Mark Adamo Little Women (1998) (]V^, a 10-minute chamber opera (1999) Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess (2005)

Selected Other Works by Mark Adamo Late Victorians (1994, rev. 2007) -V\Y (UNLSZ, Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (2006) (SJV[[ 4\ZPJ (from the opera Little Women (1999, revised 2007) 9LNPUH *VLSP (2007) Overture to Lysistrata, (2006) .HYSHUK (2006) *HU[H[L +VTPUV! ,[\KL VU 7ZHST (1999, rev. 2009) 4H[L^HU 4\ZPJ (1995, rev. 2009) ;OL 7VL[ :WLHRZ VM 7YHPZPUN (1995, rev. 2009) :\WYLTL =PY[\L (1997, rev. 2009) 7PLK )LH\[` (1995, rev. 2009) .VKÂťZ .YHUKL\Y (1995, rev. 2009)

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Synopsis (Setting: Massachusetts during the Civil War) Prologue The dark attic of the March house.

Jo, distraught, greets her friend Laurie. He’s just married Jo’s younger sister Amy; but has he only married Amy to stay near Jo? Worse: Laurie adores Amy—nothing is as it was—and the opera spirals back in time to show why Jo tried to keep it that way.

Act I, Scene 1 The attic, two years ago.

Jo and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy make games of their chores. Laurie tauntingly tells Jo that his tutor, John Brooke, keeps Meg’s glove because he loves her. Jo, alone, sketching a story, fearfully denies that Meg might love him too.

Act I, Scene 2 In front of the March house, weeks later.

Brooke courts Meg. Jo urges the family to reject him. Cecilia, the girls’ aunt also scorns Brooke: but Meg, resolved, accepts him. Her family celebrates; but Jo accuses Meg of abandoning her.

Act I, Scene 3 The March garden, the following summer.

Meg and Brooke adapt their parents wedding vows.

A feverish Laurie pleads for Jo’s love. She spurns OPT" Z[\UN OL ÅLLZ )L[O ZLJYL[S` PSS JVSSHWZLZ HZ Meg cries for help.

Act II, Scene 1 ;OL VMÄJLZ VM [OL Daily Volcano, a New York City ÄJ[PVU [HISVPK VUL `LHY SH[LY A triumphant Jo sells a story; back at her boarding house, she writes her increasingly atomized family.

A new acquaintance, Fredrich Bhaer, invites her to the opera.

Act II, Scene 2 Simultaneously, Jo’s boarding house; the March parlour; sunny Oxford lawn.

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Act II, Scene 3 Beth’s bedroom, three sleepless nights later.

Beth dozes as her family keeps vigil. Jo bursts in; Beth bids her family leave. Beth urges Jo to accept her impending death.

Act II, Scene 4 Before the March house, the following spring.

Cecilia baits Jo with Amy’s letter about loving Laurie. Jo wearily admits Bhaer may have abandoned her. Cecilia urges Jo to choose solitude; refusing, Jo retreats to the attic.

Act II, Scene 5 The attic.

As in the beginning, Jo, distraught. Laurie, appearing, again reminisces; but now Jo rejects the past. Her sisters materialize as memories: Jo, in emotional exorcism, celebrates and releases them.

Bhaer—her future—appears: Jo extends her hand to him.

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Little Women An opera in two acts Music and Libretto by Mark Adamo after the novel by Louisa May Alcott published by G. Schirmer, Inc. Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, David Gockley, General Director, c. 1998

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Scene 2 - Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house, New York City: the March house: on tour in England Scene 3 - Jo’s corridor in the boarding house/ Oxford Scene 4 - Beth’s bedroom Scene 5 - The path in front of the March house

Little Women will run approximately two hours with one twenty-minute intermission.

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Little Women, that indispensable chronicle of growing up female in post-Civil War New England, has most often materialized on stage and screen as the romance of a free-spirited young writer torn between the boy next door and a man of the world. Closer reading of Louisa May Alcott’s novel suggested to me a deeper theme: that even those we love will, in all innocence, wound and abandon us until we learn that their destinies are not ours to control. So I cut and shaped the libretto so that Jo’s love for her sisters regained the power it wielded in [OL VYPNPUHS" HUK PTHNPULK H ÄUHSL PU ^OPJO 1V H[ SHZ[ accepts that even sincerest love and strongest will cannot stave off change and loss.

Procedurally, the score uses early twentieth-century Russian acting method to freshen German 3LP[TV[P] [LJOUPX\L! P[Z TH[LYPHSZ YLĂ&#x2026;LJ[ T` SV]L VM Ă&#x201E;VYH[\YH vocal writing, pan-chromatic harmony, and American theatre-song forms. I made up two main motives 1VÂťZ ¸7LYMLJ[ (Z >L (YLš HUK ¸;OPUNZ *OHUNL š Ă&#x201E;YZ[ heard as Megâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scene 2 aria) as well as themes for all the characters and certain dramatic actions. (For example, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an â&#x20AC;&#x153;abandonmentâ&#x20AC;? theme, a lament for orchestra spun from those two main motives, and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sonority,â&#x20AC;? as much a timbral as a melodic idea, that embodies the close rapport Jo so wishes to preserve.) But the motives neither narrate the story nor comment on it in the Wagnerian manner: they drive in the script what the renowned acting [LHJOLY <[H /HNLU JHSSZ HJ[PUN ¸ILH[Zš¡ZWLJPĂ&#x201E;J psychological actions, closely (or barely at all) matched to the actual stage gestures, that track the progress of the characters as much if not more than do the events of the story.

I wanted these mostly tonal themes to appear and intertwine as audibly as I could make them as the opera unfoldedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhaps against an orchestral backdrop utterly distinct in texture, harmony, and line from the thematic foreground. So, for those scenes driven by language and story, rather than music and psychology, I concocted a variant of

18th-century YLJP[H[P]L ZLJJVâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; crisply minimal, but THKL MYVT H [^LS]L [VUL TLSVK` [OL Ă&#x201E;YZ[ OVYU ZVSV in the Prologue) that not only spiked the harmonies under the non-thematic dialogue, but also gave Jo the makings of her wild storytelling ZJOLYaHUKV sections in her Act One scena, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perfect As We Are.â&#x20AC;?

This long solo, which portays Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divided feelings by disrupting her long-lined F-major cantilena with JHYLLUPUN KVKLJHWOVUPJ JVTLK` ILZ[ L_LTWSPĂ&#x201E;LZ the scoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overarching principleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that even the most disparate materials can (and should!) belong together if the dramatic design is sound.

To Nietzsche is attributed the quote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;An artist chooses his subjects; that is his way of praising.â&#x20AC;?

Certainly I was surprised, as I composed an opera about people far removed in time, space, and gender from my own life, how much of my own feelings, memories, and family history found its way into Little Women -VY Ă&#x201E;YZ[ Z\NNLZ[PUN [OL PKLH [V TL 0 V^L a debt of gratitude to Elaine Walter, and for bringing to the stage the opera that resulted with such care and commitment, I owe a debt of gratitude to David Gockley, Christopher Larkin, ad Peter Webser; for their valuable and imaginative commentary on the opera as it developed. I thank Carlisle Floyd, John Corigliano, William M. Hoffman, Messrs Gockley and Webster, and Michael Korie; for his heroic work on the documents of this score, I thank Kent Ashcraft; and for her friendship, as well as for her unstinting support of my work, I thank Susan Carlyle; but for [OL [Y\[OZ VM SV]L HUK JV\YHNL 0 OH]L [YPLK [V YLĂ&#x2026;LJ[ in this piece, I thank above all my parents, Julie and Romeo Adamo, to whom Little Women is lovingly dedicated. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mark Adamo

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was raised as an only child in Tennessee with grandparents back here in Colorado. In my home, I was one of threeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the other two being adults. I never read Alcottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Women as a young girl, and I found the idea of directing the piece for CU Opera a daunting challenge.

(New York director, Rhoda Levine who directed the piece for New York City Opera was slated for the task but had to withdraw due to personal reasons.) I dived into the story with gusto and found it a piece that even an only child could understand. Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sisters are her anchors. They are the â&#x20AC;&#x153;known,â&#x20AC;? the foundation, all that represent security. Jo is a girl that dreams of being an artist and dreams of travelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but at the same time is afraid of losing all that is safe and familiar to her.

Also important to her: nature. The seasons. Her writing.

Her sisters. Bruce proposed a brilliant design with the attic positioned as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;soulâ&#x20AC;? of the environment and pages of Alcott/Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing surrounding the playing area with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;big hugâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tight hug that just does not want to let go.

I like Jo. She is a tomboy, she makes up stories and acts them out, she writes, she is not afraid to be forthright even when society tells her it is not the feminine thing to do. She is also a woman with deep emotional feeling and H[[HJOTLU[ :OL PZ HSZV Ă&#x2026;H^LK @LZ¡0 SPRL 1V

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read Little Women, relive it with Adamoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sometimes beautiful, sometimes haunting, and always theatrical music. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, immerse yourself in a witty, touching and at times, heart-wrenching story. Enjoy the next couple of hours with us at the theater.

0U [OL JVTWVZLY (KHTVÂťZ V^U ^VYKZ ¸;OL JVUĂ&#x2026;PJ[ VM Little Women is Jo versus the passage of time.â&#x20AC;? Ultimately, she must accept that things must change. Bruce Bergner, scenic designer and I sat down to discuss the piece. We both agreed that he piece was from Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point of view and that we wanted to create an environment that represented all that was important to her. I knew her haven of creativity, the attic, should be the most detailed of her surroundings.

Special thanks to my associate director, Chelsea Lewis, who has brought so much of her artistry and heart to this piece. She understands it on such a deep level. I am certain that I learn far more from my students than they ever learn from me.

Little Women Concludes Opera Season

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CU Opera caps its season with one more literary related productionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Little Women.

Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, this production tells a tale focused on family life, the struggles related to growing up along with all the trials and tribulations during the Civil War days.

Alcottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story emerged on screen in the 1994 re-make staring Sarah Sarandon and Winona Ryder. Beyond the printed page and screen, this tale has been transformed into a musical presentation as well as an operatic one. In what some call an artistic â&#x20AC;&#x153;double feature,â&#x20AC;? this spring the university provided two campus-based productions of the Little Women storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;CU Theater and Dance Department and CU Opera. The Theater and Dance Department presented the Broadway musical version during a fourshow run earlier this April.

Leigh Holman directs the CU Opera production of Little Women with Christopher Zemliauskas conducting. While our student performers may change their costumes to meet the operatic content of their current production, their passion for singing remains constant. So too does the commitment from the student performers in the pit.

CU NOW, the next opera production audiences will enjoy, occurs June 14-16. College of Music singers in conjunction with composer Libby Larsen, will workshop excerpts from ( Wrinkle in Time, in the Atlas Black Box Theater prior to its fulllength premier with the Fort Worth Opera.

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The Company Michael Aiello (Friedrich Bhaer) Past roles with CU Opera: Pistola, -HSZ[HMM; Nick Shadow, ;OL 9HRLÂťZ 7YVNYLZZ; Simone, .PHUUP :JOPJJOP; Figaro (cover), 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV; Elder Ott, :\ZHUUHO. Past roles with CU Opera New Opera Workshop: Mr. Reed, 3\KSV^; Guildenstern, 9VZLUJYHU[a HUK .\PSKLUZ[LYU (YL +LHK; Mr. Benet, 7YPKL HUK 7YLQ\KPJL. Scholarships/Honors: Dale Johnson Opera Scholarship, Barbara Doscher Graduate Voice Scholarship, Dennis Jackson Opera Scholarship. Michael is a student of Julie Simson.

Bruce Bergner (Set Design) CU Theatre/Dance faculty member since 1998. CU scene design credits include 4HYPZVS ;^LSM[O 5PNO[ ;OL *OLYY` 6YJOHYK :OL 3V]LZ 4L ;OL .YHWLZ VM >YH[O ;OL 3HYHTPL 7YVQLJ[ 7`NTHSPVU ;OL 0SS\ZPVU ;OL :RPU VM 6\Y ;LL[O, and 3V]LÂťZ 3HIVYÂťZ 3VZ[. Professional design credits include over 150 shows in venues across the United States. Awards PUJS\KL Ă&#x201E;]L 2LUULK` *LU[LY (*;- H^HYKZ MVY L_JLSSLUJL PU :JLUL Design, The James Ostrander Award for Best Scene Design of the Season, and Camera Eye and Ovations nominations for Best Design of Season. Bruce has designed locally at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Opera Colorado and the Colorado Light Opera in recent seasons.

Bruceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designs have been exhibited at the prestigious Prague Quadrennial in Czechoslovakia, at conferences with the United States Institute for Theatre Technology and at CUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heritage Center Museum.

Angela Born (Beth) Past roles with CU Opera: Suor Genovieffa, :\VY (UNLSPJH; Susanna (cover), 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV; Barbarina, Le UVaaL KP -PNHYV; Mrs. Hayes, :\ZHUUHO; Julie (cover), *HYV\ZLS. Past roles elsewhere: Musetta, 3H )VOuTL, Loveland Opera Theatre; Mimi, 3H )VOuTL, Illinois Wesleyan University; Hanna, Ballymore, Illinois Wesleyan University. Scholarships/Honors: Finalist in Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition, 2013; Recipient of Barbara M. Doscher Scholarship, 2012; Recipient of Denver Lyric Opera Guild Scholarship, 2011. Angela is a student of Julie Simson.

Kristyn Christman-McCarty (Jo March) Past roles with CU Opera: Quickly, -HSZ[HMM; Mother Goose (cover), ;OL 9HRLÂťZ Progress. Past roles elsewhere: Third Lady, +PL AH\ILYĂ&#x2026;Â&#x20AC;[L, Hillman Opera Company, Fredonia, NY; The Voice, Les Contes dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hoffmann- Hillman Opera Company. Scholarships/Honors: Lauren Miller Memorial Scholarship in Choral Excellence, Class of 1955 Scholarship for Excellence as a Music Educator. Kristyn is a student of Julie Simson.

Anna Engländer (Jo March) Past roles with CU Opera: Baba the Turk, ;OL 9HRLÂťZ 7YVNYLZZ; Cherubino, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV; La Ciesca, .PHUUP :JOPJJOP; La Suora Zelatrice, Suor Angelica; MezzoSoprano soloist, Bernsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mass; Mrs. Ott, Susannah. Past roles elsewhere: Suzuki, 4HKHTH )\[[LYĂ&#x2026;`, Opera Futura in Correggio, Fiorenzuola and Cesena, Italy. Honors and scholarships: 1st Place winner, National Association of Teachers of Singing, West Central Region; University of Colorado at Boulder Anderson competition; Anthony & Dorothy Riddle Lyric Theatre Performance Prize. Anna is a student of Julie Simson.

Adam Ewing (John Brooke) Past roles with CU Opera: Gianni Schicchi, .PHUUP :JOPJJOP; Count (cover), 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV; Celebrant, Bernsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mass; Poet, 3\KSV^ (CU-NOW). Past roles elsewhere: Leander, ( 3V]L MVY ;OYLL 6YHUNLZ; Spalanzani/ Schlemil, 3LZ JVU[LZ KÂť/VMMTHUU; Elder MacLean, :\ZHUUHO, Indiana University. Scholarships/Honors: Ekstrand Competition, Honorable Mention, 2011. Adam is a student of Patrick Mason.

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Zac Garcia (Dashwood) Past roles with CU Opera: Keeper of the Madhouse, Father Trulove Cover, ;OL 9HRLÂťZ 7YVNYLZZ; Elder McLean, :\ZHUUHO; Marco, .PHUUP :JOPJJOP; Bartolo/Antonio, Le UVaaL KP -PNHYV; King Claudius, 9VZLURYHU[a HUK .\PSKLUZ[LYU HYL Dead; Maometto, 0S [LH[YV KP -YP\SP; Norton (cover), 3H *HTIPHSL di Matrimonio. Scholarships/Honors: Anderson Competition Winner 2010 and 2011, Don and Maria Johnson Scholarship, Ritter Scholarship. Zac is a student of Patrick Mason. &KDUORWWH +DHUWOLQJ (Quartet) Past roles with CU Opera: Novice, :\VY (UNLSPJH; Chorus, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV. Scholarships/Honors: Anderson Scholarship Competition Winner, 2013. Charlotte is a student of Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson. /HLJK +ROPDQ :[HNL +PYLJ[VY ^VYRZ Z[LHKPS` PU [OL Ă&#x201E;LSKZ VM 6WLYH HUK Musical Theatre. She joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder as Director of CU Opera in 2009 and is currently celebrating her fourth year of highly successful and award-winning seasons. The National 6WLYH (ZZVJPH[PVU 56( YLJLU[S` H^HYKLK *< HZ Ă&#x201E;YZ[ WSHJL ^PUULY MVY two consecutive years in the live-performed operatic scenes competition.

Most recently, Holman co-directed 4HKHTH )\[[LYĂ&#x2026;` with Paolo Panizza for Opera Futura and La cambiale di Matrimonio for the Piccolo Festival both in Northern Italy.

In 2010, Holman founded CU NOW (CU New Opera Workshop) with Patrick Masonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a program pairing established composers and CU singers to produce newly composed operas. In the third summer season, they presented 3\KSV^, an opera by Lori Laitman and David Mason based on Masonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical novel of the same name. In previous years they presented operatic works by Kirke Mechem, Herschel Garfein, Robert Aldridge and Daniel Kellogg. This past April, Holman was engaged at Stonybrook in New York directing Mozartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s +PL ,U[MÂ&#x2026;OY\UN H\Z KLT :LYHPS in a new production designed by New York scenic designer Peter Dean Beck. This past June she traveled back to Boulder to stage direct )Y\UKPIHY with the Colorado Music Festival conducted by Michael Christie. In addition to directing, Holman teaches acting for singers and is the ensemble director for the CU Opera Theatre Singers. She is married to Doyle Johnson, and they have a frolicsome Border Collie/Aussie mix named Sam. 0D[ +RVPHU (Laurie) Past roles with CU Opera: Fenton, -HSZ[HMM; Sellem, ;OL 9HRLÂťZ 7YVNYLZZ; Edoardo, 3H *HTIPHSL KP Matrimonio, Rinuccio, .PHUUP :JOPJJOP; Don Basilio/Don Curzio, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV. Past roles elsewhere: Gastone, 3H ;YH]PH[H, Townsend Opera Players; Milkman, )Y\UKPIHY, Colorado Music Festival; Cascada, ;OL 4LYY` >PKV^, Bear Valley Music Festival.

Scholarships/Honors: 3rd Place, Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition; California State University Stanislaus 2009-2010 Concerto/Aria Competition Winner, 2nd place Winner in Musical Theatre for San Joaquin Valley NATS. Max is a student of Patrick Mason.

Leigh Joseph (Meg March) Past roles with CU Opera: Meg Page, -HSZ[HMM; Barbarina, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV; Suor Dolcina, :\VY (UNLSPJH; Ensemble, ;OL 9HRLÂťZ 7YVNYLZZ :\ZHUUHO *HYV\ZLS. Honors/ Scholarships: Don and Maria Johnson Scholarship, Anderson Competition Winner, 2012, Classical Singer Undergraduate Competition, Regional Winner. Leigh is a student of Jennifer BirdArvidsson.

Kirsten Kamna (Amy March) Past roles with CU Opera: Nannetta, -HSZ[HMM; Lauretta, .PHUUP :JOPJJOP; Flower Girl, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV. Past roles elsewhere: Pamina, ;OL 4HNPJ -S\[L, Astoria Music Festival; Miss Wordsworth, (SILY[ /LYYPUN 7HJPÄJ 3\[OLYHU University; Adele, +PL -SLKLYTH\Z 7HJPÄJ 3\[OLYHU <UP]LYZP[` Scholarships/Honors: Barbara Doscher Scholarship Recipient, Denver Lyric Opera Guild Finalist, Coeur d’Alene Young Artist Competition Winner 2011. Kirsten is a student of Jennifer BirdArvidsson.

Shannon Kaye (Cecilia March) CU Opera Debut! Past roles elsewhere: Second Lady, +PL AH\ILYÅ [L, Opera Theatre of the Rockies, Colorado Springs; First Nursemaid, :[YLL[ :JLUL, Opera Theatre of the Rockies Colorado Springs; Madame Lidoine, +PHSVN\LZ VM [OL *HYTLSP[LZ, Opera Theatre of the Rockies Vocal Arts Symposium. Honors/Scholarships: Seventh Place, Denver Lyric Opera Guild; First Place, National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition. Shannon is a student of Joel Burcham.

Emily Moses (Meg March) Past roles with CU Opera: Meg Page, -HSZ[HMM. Past roles elsewhere: Prince Charming, *LUKYPSSVU, Miami University Ohio; Zita, .PHUUP :JOPJJOP, Miami University Ohio. Emily is a student of Julie Simson.

Ron Mueller (Technical Director) 15 Seasons with CU Opera.

Selected past CU productions: 3H ;YH]PH[H >LZ[ :PKL :[VY` Dead Man Walking. Other professional credits: Skylight Opera, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder Dinner Theatre. +DOOH\ 3HDUOVWHLQ (Alma March) Past roles with CU Opera: Quickly, -HSZ[HMM; Baba the Turk (cover), ;OL 9HRL»Z 7YVNYLZZ. Past roles elsewhere: Meg Page, -HSZ[HMM, American Singers’ Opera Project, Winston-Salem, NC; La Principessa, :\VY (UNLSPJH, University of Delaware Opera Theatre, Newark, DE; Prince Orlofsky, Die -SLKLYTH\Z, University of Delaware Opera Theatre. Scholarships/ Honors: Member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, Second Place in Senior Women’s Division of Delaware NATS. Halley is a student of Julie Simson.

Victoria Peña (Quartet). Past roles with CU Opera: Zulma, 3»0[HSPHUH PU (SNLYP (Rossini scenes); Maestra de novizie, :\VY (UNLSPJH; Street Singer, Bernstein’s Mass. Victoria is a student of Joel Burcham.

Christina Pezzarossi (Beth March) Past roles with CU Opera: Alice Ford, -HSZ[HMM. Past roles elsewhere: Cathleen, 9PKLYZ [V [OL :LH, Rimrock Opera, Billings, MT. Scholarships/Honors: Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation Voice Scholarship. Christina is a student of Julie Simson.

Tom Robbins (Costume Designer) 21 Seasons with CU Opera. Selected past CU productions with CU Opera: +VU .PV]HUUP (U`[OPUN .VLZ :\ZHUUHO *HYV\ZLS 6[OLY WYVMLZZPVUHS JYLKP[Z! )VUÄS»Z ;OLH[LY 6WLYH Colorado, Colorado Ballet.

Christian Sanders (Laurie) Past roles with CU Opera: Fenton, -HSZ[HMM; Tom Rakewell, ;OL 9HRL»Z 7YVNYLZZ. Past roles elsewhere: Welko, (YHILSSH, Santa Fe Opera; Laurie, Little Women, Opera Academy of California, San Francisco; Luiz, ;OL .VUKVSPLYZ, San Diego Lyric Opera. Scholarships/Honors: Regional Finalist Rocky Mountain Regional MONC Auditions 2012, Winner Musical Merit Competition of San Diego 2011, National Semi-Finalist Classical Singer Magazine Competition 2011. Christian is a student of Julie Simson.

Melanie Shaffer (Quartet) Past roles with CU Opera: Laysister, :\VY (UNLSPJH; Chorus, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV. Past roles elsewhere: Dorabella, *VZy MHU [\[[L; Dorothée, *LUKYPSSVU, Abilene Christian University Opera. Melanie is a student of Julie Simson.

Julie Silver (Alma March) Past roles with CU Opera: Alice Ford, -HSZ[HMM; Mrs. MacIntosh, 3\KSV^; Nella, Zita, .PHUUP :JOPJJP; Suor Angelica (cover), :\VY (UNLSPJH. Past roles elsewhere: Suor Angelica, :\VY (UNLSPJH; First Lady, ;OL 4HNPJ -S\[L; Gertrude, /HUZLS HUK .YL[LS, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. Scholarships/Honors: Voice Performance Scholarship; Barbara Doscher Scholarship; Finalist, Chicago NATS 2010. Julie is a student of Joel Burcham.

Emily Sinclair (Cecilia March) Past roles with CU Opera: Donna Anna, +VU .PV]HUUP. Past roles elsewhere: Roggiero, Tancredi, Caramoor International Festival, New York; Lucia (cover), 3\JPH di Lammermoor, Opera Colorado, Denver; Konstanze, Die ,U[M OY\UN H\Z KLT :LYHPS, Opera Company of Brooklyn, New York. Scholarships/Honors: District Winner/Regional Finalist, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; Second Prize, Washington International Competition; Encouragement Award, Gerda Lissner Foundation. Emily is a student of Patti Peterson.

Adara Towler (Amy March) Past roles with CU Opera: Nannetta, -HSZ[HMM. Past roles elsewhere: Susanna, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV, University of Tennessee Opera Theater, Knoxville; Badessa, :\VY (UNLSPJH, University of Tennessee Opera Theater, Knoxville.

Scholarships/Honors: 2nd place at National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, 1st place at Knoxville Young Classical Singers Competition. Adara is a student of Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson.

Malcolm Ulbrick (Gideon March) Past roles with CU Opera: Nick Shadow (cover), ;OL 9HRL»Z 7YVNYLZZ; Figaro, 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV; Olin Blitch, :\ZHUUHO; Billy, *HYV\ZLS. Past roles elsewhere: Count Carl Magnus Malcolm, ( 3P[[SL 5PNO[ 4\ZPJ, Opera Theatre of the Rockies; Dr. Bartolo, ;OL )HYILY VM :L]PSSL, Music Academy of the West. Scholarships/Honors: 3rd Place National Opera Association Collegiate Scene’s Competition for ;OL 9HRL»Z Progress (Nick Shadow). Malcolm is a student of Patrick Mason.

Nicole Wilke (Quartet) Past roles with CU Opera: Choruses of -HSZ[HMM ;OL 9HRL»Z 7YVNYLZZ :\VY (UNLSPJH 3L UVaaL KP -PNHYV. Honors/Scholarship: Anderson Competition Winner- 2013.

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Christopher Zemliauskas (Conductor) is the Assistant Musical Director of the Opera Program at CU-Boulder, where his duties include preparing singers for recital work and opera roles, collaborating with other faculty on recitals, teaching diction classes, and serving as Chorus Master for the opera productions.

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