Adieu! Natalie Dessay!

"I had started off as an acting student. That was my real passion. That is my real passion. It’s just a detour of thirty-three years—to finally get back to my first goal..."
                                                                                     ---- Natalie Dessay

 

 

 

I will miss your presence on the operatic stage, Natalie! And I'm looking forward to seeing your acting work!

Pavarotti Masterclass

I'm putting them up to remind myself to watch them often.

Love and Deception, or, just LOVE?

BRAVI!! What a great concert, my fellow singers!!

  

 

A little humor goes long way :]

"Becky Butterfly" at the Rotunda -- WHAT A FUN SHOW!

FantasyWeaver Production's "Becky Butterfly" had two successful shows at The Rotunda yesterday.
WHAT A FUN TIME for both the children and the singers! The writer and cast members worked so hard to bring a production about Bullying-- a serious subject in a form of fun dance, cheerful music and dialog to the children who might or might not have been bullied themselves.
Check out FANTASY WEAVER PRODUCTION'S --"BECKY BUTTERFLY" here!
Check out THE ROTUNDA'S SHOW SCHEDULE here!

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 Cast & Crew

BECKY--KATE QUINN

KEVIN THE MALE WASP---------------------JOHN QUINN

FLOWER 1/ FORTUNA---------------------ECHO VOLLA

FLOWER 2/ SEVENA---------------------ALYSSA LEHMAN

FLOWER 3/ VANO---------------------RAJA VAIDYA

FLOWER 4/ SOREL---------------------STEPHEN RAYTEK

QUEEN WASP---------------------SHARON DERSTINE

Producer/Composer

KATE QUINN

Musical Director

TING-TING WONG

Stage Director

DOROTHY CARDELLA (Touch of Classics)

Assistant Director

CORINNE REISER

Sets

DOROTHY CARDELLA/GINA RENZI

Custome

LOIS BABBIT

Light Technician 

GINA RENZI

Sound Technician

TARIO HIPPS

Videographer

 TARIO HIPPS

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UPCOMING CONCERT IN MAY

 

A intimate night of singing from various opera scenes with a group of young opera singers in New York--

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Anna Petrie

Amanda Hick

Boris Mitchell

Caroline Tye

Emilie Storrs 

Echo Shi Volla 

Gilbert Mendoza

Heather Fetrow
Jennifer Sin

Juan Blanco 

Lauren Alfano Ishda 

Concert producer

Georgia Duan

Echo Shi Volla

Special Thanks to 

Shawana Ferguson--American Leisure 

The Edge Williamsburg

Continue on with "What Makes a Great Soprano?"

 

 

What Makes a Great Soprano

Opera is probably one of the most difficult forms of art ever existed in human history. Such a vast combination of literary/ mythological references; music; visual art and acting all put together in a condensed time frame is literally unimaginable. It might seem effortless from eyes of the audience, however behind the seemingly effortlessness is at least 10 years of hard, boring and bone crushing work. Don't believe me? Try it!;)