Get HOT with the Orvis Opera Studio this December!

HOT’s Education and Outreach Program is busy year-round and that includes this Holiday Season!  Erin Winker Fasone, Kaweo Kanoho, and Blythe Kelsey, Members of HOT Education’s Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio will be performing this weekend on Lanai at the Great Hall in the Lodge at Koele.

The Singers will be accompanied on the piano by Mr. Eric Schank and this performance will start at 7:00pm. This event is made possible through a collaboration between HOT and the University of Hawaii Outreach College.

The Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio of Hawaii Opera Theatre was founded by HOT’s Artistic Director, Henry Akina, and was dedicated in 1998 to Mae Zenke, a gifted opera singer, who married businessman Arthur Orvis.  The Orvis’ were great supporters of the arts in Hawaii and their legacy of generosity lives on through the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation, which provides the funding for this program.

The goal of this Opera Studio is to provide training and performance experiences that include classes and seminars in movement, musical style, language, repertoire coaching and master classes.

For those of you on Oahu, you also have the opportunity to attend very special Opera Event with Members of the Orvis Opera Studio this December. Great Singers, Great Songs, featuring Mark Morash, will be held on December 20 & 21, 2013, at 7:00pm in the HOT Rehearsal Hall, at 780 S. Beretania Street.  Mark Morash, the Director of Musical Studies with the San Francisco Opera Center, will be in Hawaii to work with a selection of singers from the Orvis Opera Studio.

This event is free with limited seating.  Please RSVP by calling 808-596-7372 before December 18, 2013, to reserve your space.  Both on street and limited parking are available at Hawaii Opera Plaza (848 S. Beretania Street).