Experience great singers upclose at a great price with the intimate and affordable opera company.
Cosi fan Tutte-October 22, 7:30PM, BYOB-Bring wine and a friend; enjoy voices so close you will feel them.
W. 62nd Street Penthouse overlooking Lincoln Center
STARRING:
Nils Neubert-Ferrando
Sun A. Yeo-Fiordiligi
Keiko Kai-Dorabella
Nina Riley-Despina
Barry Robinson-Guglielmo
Djore Nance-Don Alfonso
Wei-En Hsu-Pianist
Jay Meetze-Conductor
Bring Your Fully-charged iPhone or iPod Touch
Audience members with an iPhone or iPod Touch can access an electronic playbill, complete with multilingual subtitles, cast biographies and headshots. GlobeTitles(TM) subtitles transmit to audiences wirelessly. This will be the first ever beta test of the GlobeTitles system.
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ABOUT THE CAST
Wei-En Hsu, pianist, native of Taiwan, received his education from the Juilliard School , Royal Academy of Music, College-Conservatory of Music, and Taipei National University of the Arts. Winner of Scott Huxley Piano Accompaniment Prize, Major Van Someren-Godfery Prize Accompaniment Award(2004), Ludmilla Andrew Russian Song Prize Accompaniment Award, Sir Arthur Bliss Prize(2005). Recent engagements include conducting appearance at CCM for Ariadne auf Naxos in March, as well as a chamber concert at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall this May. He was named a Stern Fellow in SongFest 2009, and has just been awarded the Sing for Hope Grant for Arts Activism and Community Outreach. During the season 2009-2010, Mr. Hsu will join the Opera Company of Brooklyn Resident Artists as a pianist/coach/conductor.
Keiko Kai, mezzo-soprano, made her operatic debut by singing the role of the Third spirit in The Magic Flute. She has performed the role of Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Sister Mathilde (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Zita (Gianni Schicchi). She has also performed in scenes as Dorabella (Cosi fan Tutte), Mercedes (Carmen), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) and Chralotte (Werther). She received Master of Music and Professional Artist Diploma from Mannes College, the New School for Music. She will sing the role of The Woman (A night of Pit, composed by Robert Cuckson) in November.
Jay Meetze, Conductor - is lauded for his "passionate and undeniably impressive command of performances." (Opera News). He conducted the OCB CD on Albany Records featuring Sheri Greenawald and Ashley Putnam. Opera News named the CD Critic's Choice and Top 10 of the Year. Meetze was featured on CNN's Tips from the Top, and the front-pages of Wall Street Journal and Crain's NY Business. He has landed OCB on the Jeopardy quiz show and Good Morning America with MythBusters and has received rave reviews/articles in American Record Guide, NY Magazine and the NY Daily, Times and Post newspapers.
Djoré Nance is a bass who is poised for a major operatic and recital career of international scope. With the Opera Company of Brooklyn, Mr. Nance has performed Zuniga in Carmen, and Colline in La Boheme. He has studied with, among others, Marylin Horne, W. Stephen Smith, and Fred Carama. He holds a Bachelors of Music from the Juilliard School in Voice Performance. While at Juilliard, Mr. Nance performed the roles of Sarastro and the Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, and Rev. Olin Blitch in Susannah. His awards have included the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, and Opera Index.
Nils Neubert, tenor, joins OCB for a second season this year, and is also performing with the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, Underworld Productions and Pocket Opera New York. Past concerts venues include Steinway, Yamaha, and Alice Tully Halls, Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall (Boston), Sanders Theatre (Harvard), the United Jewish Appeal Headquarters (NYC), and Kupferberg Center (Queens College). He is a regular guest artist at the International Academy of Music (Italy), the Burgos International Music Festival (Spain), and has also recently performed with Encompass New Opera Theatre and 4x4 Baroque Music Festival in NYC. For more information, please visit www.nilsneubert.com
Nina Riley, soprano, heralded as "the kind of Despina one hopes for: diminutive, agile and with just the right clear, slender soprano voice"(NYTimes), has performed with OCB, Dell'arte Opera, Martina Arroyo Foundation, Project Opera of Manhattan, Chelsea Opera, Center City Opera, and Minato Mirai Opera in Japan. This fall: Javotte (Manon) with New York Lyric Opera Theater at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Gauchito (Gauchito and The Pony) with Queens Symphony Orchestra. Roles: Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte),Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), La Novizia (Suor Angelica), Mrs Hayes (Susannah), *Adina(L'elisir D'amore), and *Zerlina (Don Giovanni). *(cover)
Barry Robinson, baritone, is a native of Greenville, SC. He holds a Master of Music from Rice University and a Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Robinson has performed the roles of Frank (Die Fledermaus), Henry Davis (Street Scene), Giove (La Calisto). In Opera Scenes programs he has performed Frank (The Postman Always Rings Twice), Taddeo (L'italiana in Algeri), The Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Il Conte and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), and both Don
Giovanni and Leporello (Don Giovanni). He was the Second Place and Audience Choice winner of the Harlem Opera Theaters 2008 Emerging Artist Competition.
SunA Yeo, Soprano, was heralded as the extraordinarily beautiful singing and acting of Yeo as Amelia, (Raoul Abdul, The New York Amsterdam News, July/24-30/2008), for her performance in Un Ballo in Maschera with The Martina Arroyo Foundation. She has performed the reading roles including Mimi in La Bohème and Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera. She has also performed Fiordiligi in scenes of Cosi fan tutte, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and the title role of Arabella at Manhattan School of Music and Chautauqua Institution. She has participated in the master classes of Marilyn Horne and Stephanie Blythe.