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Alexandra Batsios

Soprano

Performed as Queen of the Night Die Zauberflöte.

Geoffrey Loff

Conductor, Piano

Performed as Cover Conductor Dido and Aeneas.

Zhanna Alkhazova

Dramatic Soprano

Was Manon Lescaut Title Role *M....

Melina Jaharis

Mezzo-Soprano

Performed as Madre (cover) Madama Butterfly.

Christopher Bozeka

Tenor

Performed as Florville Il Signor Bruschino.

Dane Suarez

Tenor

Performed as Flaminio L’amore dei Tre Re.

JoAnna Pope

Mezzo-Soprano

Performed as La Marquise de Berkenfield ... La Fille du Régiment .

Michael Colman

Lyric Bass

Was Studio Artist in Studio Artist.

David Walker

Artistic Director, General Director

Worked here as Associate Director of Development / Interim Department Head.

Jessé Martins

Conductor, Piano, Vocal Coach

Was Youth Opera Music Director ....

Ashley Milanese

Soprano

Performed as Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor.

Caitlin Bolden

Director of Artistic Administration

Worked here as Assistant to the Director of Artistic Administration.

Emily Misch

Soprano

Performed as Queen of the Night (cover) Die Zauberflöte.

Chelsea Laggan

Mezzo-Soprano

Is Cover- Suzuki in Madama Butterfly.

Abla Hamza

Opera Singer, Singer

Was Giselda in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata.

Christopher Oglesby

Tenor

Performed as Pinkerton Madama Butterfly.

Xavier Prado

Tenor, Opera Singer, Actor

Was Studio Artist in Don Pasquale, L'italiana in....

Kaylee Nichols

Mezzo-Soprano

Studied here for Apprentice Artist.

Bryn Holdsworth

Soprano

Performed as Lucilla (cover) La Scala di Seta.

Allison DeFrancesco

Flute, Piccolo

Performed as Flute Thérèse.

Abigail Raiford

Soprano

Was Apprentice Artist; Resident....

Steele Fitzwater

Bass-Baritone

Is Apprentice Artist in Winter Festival 2023.

Amal El-Shrafi

Soprano, Zwischenfach

Was Apprentice Artist.

Chelsea Lehnea

Soprano

Performed as Frasquita Carmen.

Emily Blair

Soprano

Was Donna Elvira Cover in Don Giovanni.

Caitlin Crabill

Soprano

Was Apprentice Artist in Apprentice Artist.

Maria Miller

Mezzo-Soprano

Was Lucilla in La scala di seta.

Rachelle Moss

Contralto

Was Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butt....

Jessica Sandidge

Soprano

Was Musetta (La Bohème) & Walte....

SarahAnn Duffy

Mezzo-Soprano

Was Studio Artist / Kate Pinker... in Madama Butterfly / Don Giov....

Evan K. Brown

Tenor

Was Apprentice Artist in L'elisir d'Amore, La Bohème....

Peter Scott Drackley

Tenor, Voice Teacher

Performed as Avito (cover) L’amore dei Tre Re.

Hanna Brammer

Soprano, Opera Singer, Voice Teacher

Was Pamina, Die Zauberflöte.

Sara Kennedy

Soprano

Was Apprentice Artist in Winter Season.

Laurel Semerdjian

Mezzo-Soprano

Was Flora- La traviata, Suzuki-....

Rachel J. Peters

Composer, Librettist

Worked here as Composer/Librettist.

Eric McConnell

Bass-Baritone

Was Jago in Ernani.

James Harrington

Lyric Bass, Crossover vocalist, Author

Was Apprentice Artist.

Ashlee Lamar

Soprano

Performed as Leonora- scene Il trovatore.

Jake Stamatis

Baritone

Performed as Conte Robinson (cover) Il Matrimonio Segreto .

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The Little Sweep

Conductor - Jessé Martins

The Music of Giacomo Puccini

Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins

Madama Butterfly

Chorus - Mary Burke Barber
Imperial Commissioner - Paul Hill
Suzuki Cover - Chelsea Laggan

Don Giovanni

Chorus - Mary Burke Barber
Donna Anna - Elizabeth Novella
Donna Elvira - Caitlin Crabill

Ernani

Chorus - Mary Burke Barber
Silva (cover) - Paul Hill
Flute - Allison DeFrancesco

Thérèse

Chorus, covering Offstage Voice - Mary Burke Barber
Flute - Allison DeFrancesco
Thérèse Cover - Chelsea Laggan

Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia - Ashley Milanese
Stage Director - Ira Siff

Lucia dì Lammermoor

Conductor - Jessé Martins

Lucia dì Lammermoor

Conductor - Jessé Martins

Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia - Ashley Milanese
Stage Director - Ira Siff

Madama Butterfly

Imperial Commissioner - Paul Hill
Pinkerton - Christopher Oglesby
Flute - Allison DeFrancesco

Don Giovanni

Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins
Donna Elvira Cover - Emily Blair
Donna Elvira - Caitlin Crabill

Thérèse

Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins
Chorus, covering Offstage Voice - Mary Burke Barber
Thérèse Cover - Chelsea Laggan

Ernani

Flute - Allison DeFrancesco
Silva (cover) - Paul Hill
Chorus - Mary Burke Barber

Young Artist Program

Young Artist - Melina Jaharis

Festa Napoletana Concert

Pianist - Jessé Martins

The Little Sweep

Conductor - Jessé Martins

The Music of Giacomo Puccini

Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins

La Fille du Régiment

Conductor - Jessé Martins
The Duchess of Krakenthorp (Cover) - Abigail Raiford
Marie - Jessica Sandidge

Tosca

Cavaradossi - Samuel Schlievert , Ben Gulley , Samuel Schlievert
Il Barone Scarpia - Stephen Gaertner
Tosca - Caitlin Crabill

Les Pêcheurs des Perles

Zurga - Jake Stamatis
Leïla (cover) - Elizabeth Novella
Nourabad - David Weigel

Voices of Sarasota Opera Orchestra Concert

Soprano Soloist - Caitlin Crabill

Voices of Sarasota Opera

Conductor - Jessé Martins

2022 Season

Apprentice Artist - Kaylee Nichols

Apprentice Artist

Apprentice Artist - Abigail Raiford
Mezzo-Soprano - Ashlyn Brown
Winter Season - JoAnna Pope

Pagliacci

Nedda- scene - Ashlee Lamar

Il trovatore

Leonora- scene - Ashlee Lamar

Il Matrimonio Segreto

Conte Robinson (cover) - Jake Stamatis
Carolina - Hanna Brammer
Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins

The Secret World of Og

Conductor - Jessé Martins
Conductor (U.S. premiere) - Jessé Martins

2022-2023 Season

Studio Artists' Director - Jessé Martins

Dido and Aeneas

Second Witch/Belinda (Cover) - Abigail Raiford
Cover Conductor - Geoffrey Loff
Conductor - Jessé Martins

Il Signor Bruschino

Performer - Lindsay Woodward
Rossini - Laurel Semerdjian
Conductor - Geoffrey Loff

La Scala di Seta

Lucilla - Maria Miller
Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins
Lucilla (cover) - Bryn Holdsworth

La serva padrona

Serpina - Anna Mandina
Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins

L'inganno felice

Isabella - Hanna Brammer
Duca Bertrando - Christopher Bozeka

La Wally

Performer - Traci Clapper , Madison Montambault
La Wally - Caitlin Crabill
Cover conductor - Jessé Martins

Fall Concert Series

Soprano Soloist - Caitlin Crabill
Artist - Anna Mandina
Guest Artist - Hanna Brammer

Roméo et Juliette

Juliette - Hanna Brammer
Performer - Madison Montambault
Tybalt - Samuel Schlievert

L'Elisir d'Amore

Giannetta - Elizabeth Novella
Adina - Adelaide Boedecker
Performer - Madison Montambault

La bohème

Mimì - Anna Mandina
Performer - Madison Montambault
Musetta (c) - Elizabeth Novella

Apprentice Artist

Winter Season - JoAnna Pope
Apprentice Artist - Abigail Raiford
Mezzo-Soprano - Ashlyn Brown

2020 Winter Season (La Bohème, The elixir of love, Romeo and Juliet, La Wally

Director of the Apprentice Artists & Chorus Master - Jessé Martins

Die Zauberflöte

Pamina (cover with performance) - Adelaide Boedecker
Queen of the Night - Alexandra Batsios
Pamina - Adelaide Boedecker

Brundibar

Conductor - Jessé Martins

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Brundibar

November 15, 2019 - November 16, 2019

Description

A brother and sister, Little Joe and Annette, need to buy milk for their sick mother but have no money. They see the organ-grinder, Brundibár, playing his hurdy-gurdy on the street corner and collecting money from the townspeople. The children decide that they too will sing and collect money, but they are laughed at and chased away by Brundibár.

As night approaches, a group of animals encourage the children to stand up to the organ-grinder. The next morning, with the help of the neighborhood children, they sing a charming lullaby which earns them money from the townspeople. Brundibár tires to steal their money, but after a brief chase he is caught and the children sing a song of victory.

Raise Up Your Voice

by Martha Collins (stage director) and Jesse Martins (Youth Opera Music Director)

When we first learned about Brundibár, we were profoundly moved by the history surrounding the work - that of it having been performed by children in the Terezín camp-ghetto. As we delved more into the lives and writings of these children, most of whom were murdered under the Nazi regime, we became deeply inspired and humbled by these young people who strove to stay artistically alive under such prohibitive conditions. It became important to us that the companion piece we created to go with Brundibár should not use words and stories created by us, but rather the actual words of young people. The search led us to the diaries and letters of children throughout the world written while they were living through the challenges of intolerance in its many forms.

In 1948, Winston Churchill said "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it". It is important that we remember the stories of these children. We found wisdom in the words of these inspiring young people who were questioning the world that adults had created; these children who were able to see the world through a lens of what life could be when not limited by politics, hatred or indoctrination.

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Jessé Martins

Conductor

Nov 15, 2019

Dates

Nov, 19

Turandot

Liù - Anna Mandina
Turandot - Caitlin Crabill

Rigoletto

Maddelena - Annie Chester

Carmen

Mercedes (Cover) - Kimberly Hann
Frasquita - Chelsea Lehnea

Tiefland

Cover Conductor - Jessé Martins

Rootabaga Country by Rachel J. Peters

Conductor (world premiere) - Jessé Martins

L’amore dei Tre Re

Flaminio - Dane Suarez
Avito (cover) - Peter Scott Drackley

L’italiana in Algeri

Cover conductor - Jessé Martins

The Secret World of Og

Conductor (U.S. premiere) - Jessé Martins
Conductor - Jessé Martins

Lucia di Lammermoor

Stage Director - Ira Siff
Lucia - Ashley Milanese

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