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Kelley sang the role of Federico Lorca in the original version of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar.

Kelley earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and her master's degree in Music from the University of California, Los Angeles.

John Adams is an American composer, clarinetist, and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.

Suzuki is a character in the opera Madame Butterfly, an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini.

Roberto De Candia is an Italian operatic baritone.

Maria Luigia Borsi is an Italian opera singer.

Hadleigh Adams is an operatic baritone from Palmerston North, New Zealand. Hadleigh recently played Mercutio in Cincinnati Opera’s performance of Charles Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet.

Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II.

A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role) is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing.

Tanglewood is a music venue in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.

The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five".

Requiem Canticles is a 15-minute composition by Igor Stravinsky, for contralto and bass soli, chorus, and orchestra.

Cherubino is a character in The Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa (comic opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

"The Composer" is a character in Richard Strauss's opera Ariadne auf Naxos.

Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") is a composition for two voices and orchestra written by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler.

Cecilia Bartoli is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist.

“Voi Che Sapete” is an aria from The Marriage of Figaro.

Renée Fleming is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.

Leontyne Price is an American soprano. She rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was the first African American to become a leading performer, or prima donna, at the Metropolitan Opera, and one of the most popular American classical singers of her generation.

Robert Spano is an American conductor and pianist.

The Gospel According to the Other Mary is an opera/oratorio by John Adams.

Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary staging of classical and contemporary operas and plays.

El Niño is an opera-oratorio by John Adams.

Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.

El Salón México is a symphonic composition in one movement by Aaron Copland, which uses Mexican folk music extensively.

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.

Kelley grew up in Clovis, California.

Audra McDonald is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win all four acting categories. McDonald was raised in Fresno, California.

La Cenerentola is an operatic dramma giocoso by Gioachino Rossini.

The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten.

Claude Debussy was a French composer.

Phyllis Curtin was an American classical soprano who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s.

Donald Runnicles is a Scottish conductor.

Louis Langrée is the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

Evans mentions the following Mahler works: Symphony No. 2 (known as the Resurrection Symphony), Symphony No. 3, Symphony No.8, Rückert-Lieder, and Kindertotenlieder.

The songs of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) by Gustav Mahler are voice-and-piano and orchestral settings of German folk poems chosen from a collection of the same name.

The Rape of Lucretia is an opera by Benjamin Britten.

Stephen grew up in the town of Warrington, England.

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sir Trevor Nunn is an English theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

Richard II is a history play by William Shakespeare.

John Barton was a British theatre director and (with Peter Hall) a co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare.

Dame Judi Dench is an English actress.

John Copley is a British theatre and opera producer and director.

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London.

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End.

The London Opera Centre, a school for the training of opera singers and other opera professionals, existed in England between 1963 and 1977.Glineborn

Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

Sir Peter Pears was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years.

Joan Cross was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.

Aldborough is a village in the civil parish of Boroughbridge in the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.

La bohème is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini.

Paul Bunyan is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.

Malcolm Fraser was an opera director.

The Magic Flute is an opera by Mozart.

Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland.

Sir David Pountney is a British and Polish theatre and opera director and librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works.

“Four Sea Interludes” are from the opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten

Peter Hemmings was an English opera administrator, impresario and singer.

LA Opera

John Cox is an English opera director.

The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Mozart.

Così fan tutte an opera by Mozart.

Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.

Don Giovanni is an opera by Mozart.

Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Falstaff is a comic opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss.

Un ballo in maschera is an opera by Verdi.

English Touring Opera (ETO) is an opera company in the United Kingdom founded in 1979 under the name Opera 80 by the then-existing Arts Council of Great Britain.

The Barber of Seville is an opera by Gioachino Rossini

Sir Thomas Allen is an English operatic baritone.

Dame Janet Baker is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

Serenade to Music is a work by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Robert Lloyd

Danielle de Niese is an Australian-American lyric soprano.

Jules Massenet was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892).

Sir Roger Norrington is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and his brother is Humphrey Thomas Norrington.

Elijah Moshinsky is an Australian opera director, theatre director and television director who has worked at the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National Theatre, BBC Television and numerous other venues.

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK.

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Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.

The San Diego Opera Association (SDO) is a professional opera company located in the city of San Diego, California.

La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini.

Rusalka is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.

Eugene Onegin is an opera composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Oberlin College and Conservatory

Seiji Ozawa is a Japanese conductor known for his advocacy of modern composers and for his work with the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast Exclusion Zone during World War II by executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

The Holocaust was the World War II genocide of the European Jews.

An American Dream is an opera by Jack Perla, a composer and pianist.

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 biographical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Marie Kondo is a Japanese organizing consultant and author.

Boris Goldovsky was a Russian-born conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States. He has been called an important "popularizer" of opera in America.

Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera by Charles Gounod.

The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

La bohème is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini.

Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nicole Cabell is an American operatic soprano. She recently played Juliet in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Romeo and Juliet.

Matthew White recently played Romeo in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Romeo and Juliet.

Traditional Japanese theatre includes Kabuki, Noh(and its comic accompaniment, Kyōgen) and the puppet theatre, Bunraku.

Jennifer Good is the Managing Director of Production at the San Francisco Opera.

Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company.

Rupert Hemmings is the Vice President of Artistic Planning at the LA Opera.

Paul Moser is an American philosopher who writes on epistemology and the philosophy of religion. He is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago and past editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly.

Houston Ballet, operated by Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas.

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.

Mozawa is a performing arts company that, through hybridity and fusion, aims to break down the barriers that exist between differing artistic media and cultures.

Nabucco is an Italian-language opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Franco Zeffirelli was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television.

Origami is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture.

Don Carlos is a (historical) tragedy in five acts by Friedrich Schiller.

Sir Derek Jacobi is an English actor and stage director.

Madame Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.

Ana Martínez is a Puerto Rican soprano.

Kelly Kaduce is an American soprano.

Robert Wilson is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist'".

University of Michigan

DePaul University

North Park University

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Adler Fellowship Program

Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) is an opera by Richard Strauss.

Jessye Norman is an American opera singer and recitalist.

Susanna is from Huntsville, Alabama where she attended Randolph School. She received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School. After completing her master's degree in 2004, she became a member of Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program for Singers.

The Metropolitan Opera

Madame Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.

Leave It to Beaver is a late 1950s black-and-white American television sitcom about an inquisitive and often naïve boy.

Susanna originally wanted to attend the following higher education institutions: Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, Samford University, and Furman University.

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through 2013 (when it filed for bankruptcy), and again since 2016 when it was revived.

New York Philharmonic Orchestra(NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is an orchestra based in New York City.

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue located in Manhattan in New York City.

Operalia, The World Opera Competition is an annual international competition for young opera singers. Founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo, the competition has helped launch the careers of several important artists.

The Music Academy of the West is a summer music conservatory located in Montecito, California. Participation is merit-based and tuition free.

Marilyn Horne is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

Matthew Epstein is the Director of Vocal Divisions at Columbia Artists Management, Inc.

Cynthia Hoffmann is a member of the voice faculties of Manhattan School of Music, where she also teaches a class in Vocal Performance, and of the Juilliard School, where she served as Chair from 1995 to 2006.

Matthew A. Horner is the Executive Vice President - Global Head of Vocal for IMG Artists, New York.

Lyric Opera of Chicago Young Artists Program

Countess Rosina Almaviva is a character in The Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Birdie is a character in Regina, an opera by Marc Blitzstein.

Musetta is a character in La bohème, an opera by Giacomo Puccini.

Fiordiligi is a character in Così fan tutte an opera by Mozart.

Agrippina is a character in an opera of the same name by George Frideric Handel.

Don Giovanni is an opera by Mozart. Donna Anna, Don Giovanni’s daughter, and Donna Elvira, a lady of Burgos abandoned by Don Giovanni, are characters in the opera.

Arabella and Der Rosenkavalier are comic operas by Richard Strauss

Daphne is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) is an American summer opera festival held in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.

Renée Fleming is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.

Julian Bream is an English virtuoso classical guitarist and lutenist. One of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant role in improving the public perception of the classical guitar as a respectable instrument.

Natalie Dessay is a French singer and actress who had a highly acclaimed career as an operatic coloratura soprano before leaving the opera stage on 15 October 2013. She is married to the bass-baritone Laurent Naouri.

Violetta is a character in the opera La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.

Cleopatra is a character in the opera Antony and Cleopatra, an opera by American composer Samuel Barber.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is a 2013 novel by the American writer Karen Joy Fowler.

Fresh Air is a podcast hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.

White Lies is an NPR podcast. More information can be found here.

The Eagle OTR and Salazar are restaurants in Cincinnati.

Dolly Parton is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music.

Kathleen Battle is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone.

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Luciano Pavarotti an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.

Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is a New Zealand soprano.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

Shirley Verrett was an African-American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles, i.e. soprano sfogato.

Don Carlos is a grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.

Pomona is a German-language opera by Reinhard Keiser.

Susanna is the countess Almaviva’s maid in The Marriage of Figaro.

Clara is a character in the opera Porgy and Bess, by the American composer George Gershwin.

Susanne Mentzer is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She is best known for singing trouser roles, such as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo, Octavian in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and the composer in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as other music of Mozart, Strauss, Rossini, Berlioz and Mahler.

The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois.

Renée Fleming is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.

Leontyne Price is an American soprano. She rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was the first African American to become a leading performer, or prima donna, at the Metropolitan Opera, and one of the most popular American classical singers of her generation.

In music performance and notation, legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.

Tatyana and Eugene Onegin are character is the opera Eugene Onegin composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

The Magic Flute is an opera by Mozart.

Così fan tutte is an Italian-language opera buffa by Mozart.

Victoria Okafor is an American opera soprano.

Barbarina is a character in in The Marriage of Figaro.

Operalia, The World Opera Competition, founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo, is an annual international competition for young opera singers.

Liù is a character in the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini.

Deborah Birnbaum is an internationally established voice teacher.

The Gershwin Initiative at the University of Michigan.

"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.

Morris Robinson is an American bass opera singer and former All-American college football player who has performed with the Metropolitan Opera at Carnegie Hall, at La Scala in Milan, Italy, at the Sydney Opera House and in numerous other Opera Houses throughout the United States and internationally. He was the first African-American artist to sign with a major classical record label.

Mimì is a character in the opera La bohème.

Countess Rosina Almaviva is a character in the opera The Marriage of Figaro.

Micaëla is a character in the opera Carmen.

Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.

Cendrillon (Cinderella) is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—by Jules Massenet.

Castor and Patience will premiere during Cincinnati Opera's 100th anniversary season in 2020.

Me Before You is a romance novel written by Jojo Moyes.

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.

Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan.

Instacart is an American technology company that operates as a same-day grocery delivery and pick-up service in the U.S. and Canada.

The Eagle OTR and Salazar are restaurants in Cincinnati.

Beyoncé is an American singer, songwriter and actress.

Drake is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur.

Radiohead are an English rock band. The band consists of Thom Yorke, brothers Jonny Greenwood and

Tel Aviv is the most populous city in the largest metropolitan area of Israel.

The Gulf War

The First Intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

The Second Intifada was a period of intensified Israeli–Palestinian violence.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist.

In May of 1809, eager to protect his precious hearing during the heavy bombardment of the Siege of Vienna, composer Ludwig von Beethoven hid in his brother’s basement with pillows covering his ears.

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) are the military forces of the State of Israel.

The Staatsoper, the Vienna State Opera, is an Austrian opera house and opera company based in Vienna.

"Largo al factotum" is an aria from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini.

The Israeli Opera is the principal opera company of Israel.

Robin Guarino is an opera and film director.She is a Professor of Opera at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).

The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Pierre Beaumarchais was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American).

Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss.

Powel Crosley Jr. was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur. He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting, and a former owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team

Hugo Hofmannsthal was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano. She was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer.

Omer mentions the following as pieces she would love to direct: Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss and Hofmannstha, The Rake’s Progress, Carmen, Don Giovanni.

The Magic Flute is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Beyoncé is an American singer, songwriter and actress.

The Metropolitan Opera

Naomi Andre attended Westtown School

Eric Mitchko is the General Director for the North Carolina Opera.

Barnard College, Columbia University

The Magic Flute is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera by Richard Strauss.

Tatiana Troyanos was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent, remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation" (Boston Globe).

Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh operatic dramatic soprano.

Kathleen Battle is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone.

Khovanshchina is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky.

Dialogues des Carmélites is an opera, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, by Francis Poulenc.

Manon Lescaut is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.

Columbia University

Jessye Norman is an American opera singer and recitalist.

Sieglinde is a character in Die Walküre, the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Leona Mitchell is an American operatic soprano and an Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee.

Mimi is a character in the opera La bohème, composed by Giacomo Puccini.

Martina Arroyo is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers of Puerto Rican descent to achieve wide success, and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world.

Aida is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is a New Zealand soprano.

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

Nabucco is an Italian-language opera composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi.

Samuel Ramey is an American operatic bass.

Andrea Gruber is an American dramatic soprano particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner.

James Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, a position he held for 40 years.

Alfred Walker is an American operatic bass-baritone.

Michèle Crider is an American lirico spinto operatic soprano.

Mark Rucker, baritone, serves as professor of voice at MSU's College of Music.

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin.

Fidelio is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera.

Marian Anderson was an American contralto singer, one of the most celebrated of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, dubbed "The Black Swan" (a play on Jenny Lind's sobriquet, "The Swedish Nightingale”, was an African-American singer considered the best-known black concert artist of her time.

James Alan Bland, also known as Jimmy Bland, was an African-American musician and song writer.

Thomas Dartmouth Rice, known professionally as Daddy Rice, was an American performer and playwright who performed blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time.

"Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" is a popular song commonly sung by blackface performers in the 19th century.

Prada S.p.A. is an Italian luxury fashion house, specializing in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, perfumes and other fashion accessories, founded in 1913 by Mario Prada.

Gucci is an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods. Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence, Tuscany, in 1921.

Ralph Shearer Northam is an American politician and physician serving as the Governor of Virginia.

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Sissieretta Jones, was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti", a reference to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti.

The Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence.

Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist, and served as First Lady of the United States.

Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

Mattiwilda Dobbs was an African-American coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera.

Lillian Evanti was an

Mozart’s Requiem is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

David Robertson guest conductor

Lyric Opera of Chicago

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

“Roger Norrington”, Sir Roger Arthur Caver Norrington is a British conductor.

The Metropolitan Opera

Elvira is a character in the opera Don Giovanni

Musetta and Mimi are characters in the opera La Bohème

DePaul University Music Department

Nicole mentioned her education at the Chautauqua Institution run by Marlena Kleinman Malas in upstate New York as well as the influence of the late Richard Pearlman who was an American theatre and opera director.

Stacey Tappan is an American coloratura soprano.

Erin Wall is a Canadian soprano acclaimed for her performances of Strauss, Mozart, Mahler and contemporary opera.

Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.

Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.

Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Sting

James Taylor

PBS: Public Broadcasting Service

Both Nicole Cabell and Renée Fleming attended the Eastman School of Music for their undergraduate educations.

Benton Hess, the founder and Artistic Director of “Si parla, si canta” also attended Eastman.

Oberlin College and Conservatory

Indiana University

Roosevelt University

Frédéric Antoun was originally cast as Romeo but due to unforeseen circumstances had to cancel. Romeo was played by Matthew White.

“Je veux vivre” is an Aria from Charles Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette and is Juliette’s first area.

La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Marguerite is a character in Gounod’s opera Faust

“The Poison Aria” is an Aria from Charles Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette

“Je dis que rien ne ne m'épouvante” is an Aria sung by the character Micaëla in Carmen, an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.

Mirella Freni is an Italian soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

Porgy and Bess is an opera by the American composer George Gershwin.

Rosalinda is a character in the opera Die Fledermaus

The Cunning Little Vixen

Fiordiligi is a character in the opera buffa Così fan tutte by Mozart

Rusalka is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi

Simon Boccanegra is an opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi

The Paris Opera

Nico Castel

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland was an Australian-born coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

Stevie Nicks

Robinson sang the bass solo parts for Mozart’s Requiem and Haydn’s The Creation in high school

Robinson attended New England Conservatory of Music’s weekend program: the School of Continuing Education

Norman Scribner founded the Choral Arts Society of Washington

Satanella is a rarely performed opera by Michael William Balfe

Sharon Daniels, Boston Conservatory

Atlanta Boy Choir

The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina

Robinson lists the following bass roles he’s sung: Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, Zacharia in Nabucco, Zarastro in The Magic Flute, Night Watchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Robinson mentions the role of Old Man River in the musical Show Boat

Teatro alla Scala

Crown is another character in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess

Robinson sang Porgy in Porgy and Bess with Lester Lynch as Crown

Robinson sang in Don Carlo with James Morris as Philip II

Bonaldo Giaiotti

Ferruccio Furlanetto

“Il lacerato spirito” from Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra

Bass-baritone Samuel Ramey

German bass Kurt Moll

Musician Prince

Singer Rachelle Ferrell

T.I., Usher

Tracy Wilson created Opera Goes to Church, which started at Allen Temple AME

YouTube, iTunes, Apple Music

Renée Fleming, Karita Mattila

Lawrence Brownlee, Christain Lewis, John Holiday

Jack & Jill

Divine Nine

Robinson frequents Cincinnati'sHathaway’s Diner

Robinson enjoys the TV shows Snapped and The First 48, as well as the channel HGTV

Robinson frequently uses Apple Music

Robinson cites Stephen Lord, Ken Noda, James Levine, and Evans Mirageas as four of his career mentors

Kaminksy’s father grew up during the Great Depression, her mother experienced the London Blitz when she was young

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York State Theater (now the David H. Koch Theater)

Babatunde Olatunji

Winneba, Ghana

Balafon

Musical tuplets

Synesthesia

Gestalt psychology

Impresario

Marionette

The High School of Music & Art (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & the Arts)

Edna Landau

Women composers of the 20th century: Lili Boulanger, Florence Price, Amy Beach

Kaminsky received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Oberlin College

Columbus Circle

Mirageas served as the Senior Vice President of Artists and Repertoire at Decca Records in London

Harlem Renaissance

The Fulbright Program, Peace Corps

And Trouble Came is a piece Kaminsky composed for narrator, viola, cello, and piano in 1993

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

20th century eastern European composers: Krzysztof Penderecki, Dmitri Shostakovich, Henryk Górecki

Kaminsky composed Terra Terribilis: Concerto for Three Percussionists and Orchestra in 2008 and Rising Tide for string quartet in 2012

Fry Street Quartet

Ludwig Beethoven, Leoš Janáček

Garth Lenz

As One is Kaminsky’s first opera

Kimberly Reed is a filmmaker and created films for As One

Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Kelly Markgraf (baritone) were the premiere cast for As One

St. Petersburg, Russia

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Kaminsky’s favorite place in Cincinnati is Maplewood Kitchen

Today it Rains is a new chamber opera by Kaminsky

The Rachel Maddow Show

Uber

Kaminsky’s opera Some Light Emerges participated in Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Opera Fusion: New Works workshop in 2016

Kaminsky was the Associate Director of Humanities at the 92nd Street Y

Kaminsky was in awe when she met Chick Corea

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)