Monthly Archives: December 2015

Listen to The Met Opera Broadcast of Rigoletto featuring Nadine Sierra

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Experience Nadine Sierra as Gilda!

Tune into Hawaiʻi Public Radio this Saturday at 100pm for the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast of Rigoletto, which features Nadine Sierra as Gilda. Nadine will make her HOT debut as Gilda next year in Verdi’s Rigoletto in Concert starring Hawaii’s own Baritone Quinn Kelsey!

Verdi’s Rigoletto in Concert starring Quinn Kelsey

Internationally acclaimed Baritone Quinn Kelsey returns to Honolulu to perform in his signature role, when HOT’s production of Verdi’sRigoletto in Concert takes place on June 26, 2016!

Tickets are available from just $29 online now at HawaiiOpera.org! 

 

Learn More About the Opera this Spring

Opera Highlights, taught by Dr. Lynne Johnson, returns this Spring!

This course on Opera Highlights is offered through the UH Outreach program and focuses on the upcoming HOT productions.  This course will examine Benjamin Britten’s beautiful A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Verdi’s epic masterpiece, Il Trovatore.

This course will be held over two meetings on Feb 4 and May 5, 2016, from 7:00-9:00pm, at UHM Music Rm. 36. The cost to attend this series is $30. Anyone interested can register through the UH Outreach College or online at here.

Dr. Lynne Johnson received her MA in musicology in 2001 and her PhD in musicology in 2009 from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her dissertation is entitled, Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saëns: Friendship, Mutual Support, and Influence. Her article, “Camille Saint-Saëns Changing Exoticism and the Interesting Case of La Foi,” was published in the January–March 2006 edition of the Journal of Musicological Research. Her article “Saint-Saëns’s 1978 Concert of Liszt’s Orchestral and Choral Works: a New Perspective” was published in 2012 in Liszt et La France: Musique, Culture et Société dans l’Europe du XIXe Siècle.

Dr. Johnson teaches classes in music history at UH Mānoa, including Introduction to Music Literature (MUS 106), Music of the Romantic Era (MUS 461f), and Symphonic Music (MUS 463b)

HOT Orvis Opera Studio Update

This week has been abuzz with Louis Otey, last seen in HOT’s staging of Portland Opera’s Pagliacci & Carmina Burana, & Maria Todaro-Otey in town!

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Louis Otey in Pagliacci & Carmina Burana

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The lovely Maria Todaro-Otey

The team is working with Members of the Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio in a series of classes.  Enjoy these behind-the-scenes photos!

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For more information on the Orvis Opera Studio, visit this link!