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Reider
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A daring Prince, a beautiful Princess, and an evil Queen–a fairy tale love story with unimaginable trials along the way. Mozart’s final opera, The Magic Flute, contains some of opera’s most memorable melodies and roles, including The Queen of the Night and her famous high notes! Sorcery, a dragon, and long-held secrets challenge our hero and heroine on their quest for wisdom and enlightenment.
Garrett Reider
Sarastro
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Hanna Frampton
Second Lady
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Catherine Creed
Queen of the Night
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Colin Miller
Tamino
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Yining Xie
Pamina
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Recent Highlights
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Shepherd School Opera students perform selections from Wagner's Das Rheingold, performed with piano on the Morrison Theater stage. 2024-25 Aleko Endowed Artists Tonya and Ryan McKinny will be stage directing the scenes, deconstructing them for the audience, and coaching the students through the scenes in real time.
Garrett Reider
Fafner
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You’ve never seen an opera like this before. Step inside a world of fantasy, hilarity, and boundless imagination as Shepherd School Opera Department presents John Corigliano’s mesmerizing The Ghosts of Versailles. As the curtain rises, we encounter the ghosts of King Louis XVI’s court, including Marie Antoinette who is still haunted by the memory of her execution. Her favorite playwright tries to lift her spirits with an opera featuring the beloved characters from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. As the “opera within an opera” unfolds, realities blend, worlds collide, and events take an unexpected turn. An evening of spectacle, suspense, laugh-out-loud humor, and astonishing emotional poignancy awaits in this grand celebration of the power of opera.
Garrett Reider
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Catherine Creed
Florestine
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Isabelle Kosempa
Samira
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Lucila Zavala
Ghost Quartet
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Garrett Reider
Sarastro
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Garrett Reider
Masetto
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Garrett Reider
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Garrett Reider
Sciarrone
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Louis Lohraseb, conductor
Crystal Manich, director
Joshua Winograde, Director of Opera Studies & Professor of Opera
Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra
Alcina is a beautiful and powerful sorceress with a penchant for luring men to her enchanted island, seducing them, and turning them into rocks and wild animals when she tires of the relationship—until the dashing knight Ruggiero comes along and sparks true love. When a magic ring breaks Alcina’s spell, and Ruggiero sees things as they are, will he return her affection? A spellbinding plot filled with twists, turns, disguises, and secret passions plays out through some of Handel’s most gloriously exquisite music in this Shepherd School Opera production.
Garrett Reider
Chorus
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Lucila Zavala
Morgana
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Biography
Garrett Reider is a bass from Wilmington, North Carolina. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas, where he studies with Dr. Robin Rice. At the Shepherd School, he will appear as Sarastro in the fall 2025 production of Die Zauberflöte, directed by R.B. Schlather and conducted by Louis Lohraseb.
Professionally, Reider has performed roles in two operas with Opera Wilmington: Masetto in their 2025 production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Sciarrone in their 2024 Tosca. Additional stage experience includes chorus work in Shepherd School productions of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and Handel’s Alcina.
He has also participated in workshops with distinguished artists, including performances as Sarastro in a concert production of Die Zauberflöte with Luke Housner of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, and as Fafner in a scenes program of Wagner’s Das Rheingold with Ryan McKinny.
Prior to his studies at Rice, Reider completed his high school education at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), where he studied with Dr. Marilyn Taylor. At UNCSA, Reider performed in the chorus of the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute’s 2024 production of Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan.
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