CHUCK HUDSON-Master Teacher

Marrying Vocal & Acting Techniques in Auditions

A collaborative master class with Stage Director Chuck Hudson and Vocal Coach Mikhail Hallak–this is a true marriage of Voice, Acting, and Movement Techniques in an audition situation, creating singing as a consequence of movement, and movement that is nourished by singing.

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Scott Scully: Simpleton (cover)

Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s soulful spectacle, which captures the suffering and ambition of a nation. “Boris Godunov is a masterpiece,” Stein says. “The challenge is to transmit the enormous emotional depth of the whole thing. Boris is the czar, but he is expressing a problem we all have: the … read more

Jesse Blumberg: John Sargent

In 1888 an odd, quiet man named John Sargent moved from Maine to Wyoming with his business partner and his family. Within a few years he was penniless and alone: he was suspected of murdering both wife and partner, and his children had been removed from his care. He left.  Later … read more

Hana Park

Mahler’s music and the city of Vienna are inseparable.  At the dawn of the 20th century, the esteemed composer served as Principal Conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic.  His fourth symphony was a response to Beethoven’s “Ninth,” the great composition incorporating themes of joy and utopia.  This program is balanced … read more

Scott Piper: Edgardo

A wicked Scottish nobleman drives his sister to madness and murder in this exhilarating and expressive high-drama masterpiece. Attractive melodies and sweeping orchestration propel a tightly constructed plot – complete with secret rendezvous, political intrigue, and a duel at dawn – towards its astonishing climax: the most famous mad scene … read more

Craig Irvin – Zuniga

One look from this seductive gypsy temptress and any man she wants is hers — driving them mad with hot desire and flicking them aside like cold cigarette ash when her fickle ardor cools. Don José gives up everything — fiancée, regiment, and honor — to be with her, but his … read more

Seth Mease Carico – An officer

The tempestuous story of the love affair between Count Almaviva and Rosina, whose happy ending is thanks only to the wiles of Figaro, the barber, has been considered the archetypal work of opera buffa ever since its premiere. Rossini’s score serves up a characteristically florid dish of melodies and rousing, … read more

Hana Park

Mahler’s music and the city of Vienna are inseparable.  At the dawn of the 20th century, the esteemed composer served as Principal Conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic.  His fourth symphony was a response to Beethoven’s “Ninth,” the great composition incorporating themes of joy and utopia.  This program is balanced … read more

Tom Corbeil – English Clerk

An aging writer in crisis seeks salvation in the light and splendour of Venice. Confronted instead with a decaying city, and thwarted in his search for creative inspiration, he becomes bewitched with the vitality and beauty of a young boy. Based on Thomas Mann’s novella, Death in Venice was Benjamin … read more

Emily Johnson: Dinah (cover)

Acclaimed director Christopher Alden stages a new production of the final stage work of America’s greatest theater composer Leonard Bernstein.  Never before seen in New York, this tonally daring musical drama incorporates his popular one-act satire Trouble in Tahiti to create an emotionally searing and deeply moving parable of alienation, … read more