Marika
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Features five second-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows and Merola alumni: soprano Mikayla Sager, mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Beteag, tenors Victor Cardamone and Edward Graves and pianist Marika Yasuda. The artists will perform rarely heard musical selections in a program curated by tenor Nicholas Phan that spans from Brahms, Schumann and Monteverdi to Pauline Viardot, Nora Holt and Ruth Crawford Seeger.
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San Francisco Opera is taking opera out of the Opera House for Bohème Out of the Box. These free, live performances of an abridged version of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème will travel to outdoor locations throughout the Bay Area this spring. The very first opera to be presented by San Francisco Opera 100 years ago, Puccini’s popular work of love and loss among a group of bohemian artists will be performed in an intimate one-hour version on a converted shipping-container-turned-mobile opera stage. Directed by Jose Maria Condemi, Bohème Out of the Box, sung in Italian and featuring English dialogue, will be performed by guest artists and San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellows with piano accompaniment. These free performances bring La Bohème’s powerful emotions and soaring arias to Bay Area communities as part of the Company’s Centennial Season.
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Performing Karol Szymanowski's “La Fontaine d’Arethuse” from Mythes, Op. 30 with Kay Stern, concertmaster
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Denis Vélez
Catrina (cover)
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Maya Cohon
Violinist
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Michael Colman
Colline
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Rebecca Achtenberg
Mimì
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Solomon Reynolds
Assistant Director
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Brandan Sanchez
Schaunard
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BODE SMITH
Betto
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Steele Fitzwater
Gianni Schicchi
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Hayley Abramowitz
Nella
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Steven M. Warnock
Marco
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Shannon Lally
Zita
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Jennifer Kreider
Nella
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Brandan Sanchez
Gianni Schicchi, Gianni Schicchi
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Marika Yasuda
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Michael Shell
Director
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Steele Fitzwater
Bartolo
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Solomon Reynolds
Count Almaviva
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Diego Barbosa-Vásquez
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Biography
Marika Yasuda is second year pianist/vocal coach in San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellowship program. She joined the music staff at San Francisco Opera last season on productions of Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber and Verdi’s La Traviata. This year, she is on music staff for SFO productions of Bohème Out of the Box, El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Frank, and L'Elisir d'Amore by Gaetano Donizetti. Recent SFO engagements include performances of La Bohème throughout the Bay area as part Bohème Out of the Box, a song recital in the 2023 Schwabacher Recital Series, and a performance of Szymanowski's Mythes Op.30 at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater with SFO concertmaster Kay Stern.
Marika is a Doctoral candidate in Collaborative Piano at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the mentorship of Kevin Murphy and Anne Epperson. There, she frequently served as coach accompanist for the Indiana University Opera Theater (IUOT). Some productions include Barber of Seville, La Bohème, Gianni Schicchi, West Side Story, and the recent coproduction of Mason Bates’ opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs with Santa Fe, Seattle, and San Francisco Operas.
As a soloist, Marika has received top prizes at competitions including the Hellam Young Artists’ Competition, Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, Julia Crane International Piano Competition. She was named a winner of the 2015 Oberlin Conservatory Concerto Competition where she performed Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto. As a collaborative pianist, Marika maintains an active schedule working with vocalists and instrumentalists. She has performed in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Herbst Theatre, Taube Atrium Theater, and Bennett Gordon Hall among others with ensembles such as eighth blackbird, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble and orchestras. Some past engagements include the world premier of Michael Gandolfi’s In America (2018) for voices and orchestra at Tanglewood, an all-cello program at Concerts at Bradley Hills, and concerts at the Boulanger Initiative’s Woco Launch Fest in Washington D.C. and Middlebury Song Fest in Vermont.
Marika has held fellowships at numerous festivals including the prestigious Merola Opera Program, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, SongFest at Colburn, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Gijon International Piano Festival. She also served as music director at the 2019 Finger Lakes Opera’s young artist program, and has collaborated with opera companies and institutions such as Houston Grand Opera, Madison Opera, and Yale University in the recording of several digital concert series and virtual projects during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.
Marika holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Vocal Accompaniment from Oberlin Conservatory (2015), and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Jacobs School of Music (2017).
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