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Matthew
Cavanaugh,
baritone, currently resides in
Stroudsburg,
Pennsylvania. He attended Manhattan School of Music for Vocal Performance
and trains with Gary Grice of Nanicoke, Pennsylvania. Matthew has
performed several roles including Schaunard in La Boheme, Antonio in
Marriage of Figaro and Falke in Die Fledermaus. |
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Stacey Church,
soprano, a performer since the age of three has impressed audiences with
her charming, light lyric voice, and her passion for being on stage. Ms.
Church has performed a wide array of roles and repertoire from the sultry
title role in the Card Trio from Bizet's Carmen, to the twelve-year-old
Cis in Britten's Albert Herring. Stacey has also performed in choirs with
major orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey
Symphony, and the Dresdner Philharmoniker. She has recently completed her
graduate studies at Penn State and is so excited to be back in the
Philadelphia
area. |
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Candice Craig,
lyric soprano, is equally comfortable performing opera, recitals, musical
theater and various styles of contemporary and popular music. She has
performed many operatic roles including the Countess in Mozart's Le Nozze
di Figaro, Juliette in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and Lady Billows in
Britten's Albert Herring. Ms. Craig's most recent performances include,
concerts in New York, New Jersey and
Delaware. |
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Eve Edwards,
soprano, previous roles that she
has presented with the Amici include Mimi, Violetta, Desdemona, Donna
Elvira, Luisa Miller, the title character in Donizetti's Maria di Rohan,
Ofelia in Thomas' Hamlet, and Medora in Verdi's II Corsaro. Performing
extensively in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Eve has also sung
roles including Marguerite, Pamina, Micaela, Rosalinda, Antonia, Alice
Ford, Butterfly, Countess Almaviva, Nedda, santuzza, Aida, and many more,
with companies including The Amato Opera, Delaware Valley Opera, Concert
Operetta Theater, Edward Bogusz & Friends, Center Stage Opera, and Piccola
Opera of Philadelphia, as well as concert performances with the Greater
Trenton Choral Society, Philadelphia Chamber Chorus, and Chestnut Hill
Orchestra. |
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Don Greenberg, tenor, has been seen with the Delaware
Valley Opera Company, the Upper Dublin Players, and has appeared several
times with the Amici Opera Company. A few of his many roles include The
Music Man, Rigoletto, I Pagliacci,
Gianni Schicchi,
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Otello, La Fanciulla del
West, and Torquato Tasso. Don lives with his wife Wendy and their three
children in Upper Dublin. |
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Garry
Grice,
tenor, has also sung the role with Des Moines Metro Opera, Nevada Opera
and Syracuse Opera, Baltimore Opera, New York City Opera, and Hilton Head
Symphony. He has also performed the roles of Bacchus, Max, Don Jose,
Arvino, Avito, Canio, Erik, Florestan, Hoffman, Ernani, Turiddu, Chenier,
Giasone, Achilles, Manrico, Don Carlo, Radames, Cavaradossi, Luigi, Enzo,
and Edgardo. His favorite concert work is Beethoven's 9th Symphony. His
other concert work includes a six-city tour in
Taiwan,
and several U S locations. |
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Wendy Grice,
dramatic coloratura, has
performed many principal roles including Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, La
Traviata, L'Elisir d'amore, L'Enfant et Les Sorteleges, among others. She
is currently preparing the roles of Trovatore, Puritan, Ernani, Lucia di
Lammermoor, The Messiah and Fledermaus. Wendy is also busy as a concert
soloist. She created the role of Susannah Wesley in the world's premier of
the oratorio "A Church of One Book". Wendy was a 1996 winner of the
concerto competition at the University of Notre Dame. |
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Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber,
mezzo soprano is active in oratorio, cantata, and operatic circuits. She
appeared as a soloist with such organizations as the Bach Concert Series
(Baltimore, MD), Annapolis Chorale, Friday Morning Music Club Chorale of
Washington D.C., NIH Philharmonica, and the Harford Choral Society.
Highlights include Bach's St. John Passion, Handel's Alexander's Feast and
Urtrecht Te Deum, Mozart's Solemn Vespers of the Confessor, Mendelssohn's
Elijah, Haydn's Mass in Time of War, HandeJ's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony, and several cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Recent recital
credits include concerts in
Rome,
Italy, and The Aspen Institute. Among her operatic credits are
performances with Kentucky Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Amici Opera. In
July 2007, she made her international operatic debut in the role of
Marcellina in the Rome Festival Opera production of Mozart's Le Nozze di
Figaro, where critic Mario Pio Amico described her as extraordinary,"
intense and expressive," and noted her "excellent interpretation of
character." Forthcoming performances include Meg in Verdi's Falstaff with
Amici Opera, and the role of Carmen in Bizet's Carmen with Rome Festival
Opera. Bonnie holds a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from the
University of Saskatchewan, a Master's degree in vocal performance from
Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in musicology from the
University
of Kentucky. She currently serves as assistant professor of music at Penn
State Altoona. |
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Steven Snow
Tenor Steven Snow just finished singing
the world premeir of The Golden Arrow
by Dennis Hyams with the Opera Project. Last year he sang the role of
Jesus in the Long Island Masterworks Concert of
Pilate, Captain Corcoran
in Ridge Light Opera’s production of HMS
Pinafore and various roles in
September Song as well as his first performance as Mime
in Wagner's Siegfried with the Baroque
Society of New Jersey. Other recent performances include include
First Jew (while covering the role of Herod) in
the Opera Cleveland Production of Salome,
Max in Der Freischütz
with the Little Opera Company of New Jersey, Alfred in
Die Fledermaus with the Maine Grand
Opera and tenor solos in Beethoven’s 9th
Symphony with the Hunterdon Symphony. He also sang the
Shepherd solos in Respighi's Laud
to the Nativity with the Voices Chorale of New Jersey. Steven
performed the roles of Eisenstein and Alfredo
Fettucine in Opera New York’s off-Broadway production of
Tales from the Manhattan Woods,
Cavaradossi in OperaDelaware's production of
Tosca as well as Edgardo
in Lucia di Lammermoor and
Rodolfo in La Bohéme with the
Lyric Opera of San Antonio. In earlier seasons, he performed the roles of
Luigi in Il Tabarro
with the Des Moines Metro Opera, Edgardo in
Lucia di Lammermoor with the Gold
Coast Opera and Don Jose in
Carmen with the Natchez Opera Festival
as well as Macduff in Verdi’s
Macbeth with Amici Opera, where he had
previously sung the roles of Turiddu in
Cavalleria Rusticana, the title role
in Don Carlo and Edgardo
in Lucia di Lammermoor. Steven also
appeared at Carnegie Hall singing Mozart's
Requiem and
Vesperae solennes de confessore (K.339).
Coming up in May of this year, Steven will sing Cavaradossi
in Tosca with Opera at Florham.
Steven toured the U.S. &
Canada as Juan Peròn in
Evita and as Giuseppe in David Bell's
Phantom. He has performed numerous
roles at Candlewood Playhouse, Light Opera of Manhattan, and the New York
Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Steven participated as an International
Artist with the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv. His other
appearances include the recurring role of George Ferguson
in the Beyond the Cedar Hedges, Living
Audio Repertory Company's series of dramas set in northern Québec and the
WHYY-TV12 special South Philly Italian
Style. He has also been seen singing the National Anthem for the
Somerset Patriots, Philadelphia Flyers and Trenton Thunder.
Steven graduated from the
Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he appeared with the AVA
Opera Theatre in such roles as Tamino in
Die Zauberflöte, Mayor Upfold
in Albert Herring, Eisenstein
in Die Fledermaus, and Bacchus
in Ariadne auf Naxos. He is a career
development award recipient from the
Recording Industries Music Performance Trust Fund.
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Paul Soffian,
bass, became an opera-lover as a little kid (before knowing what opera
was) when I listened hundreds of times to the story on records of Disney's
The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at The Met. Past roles include: Simon
Boccanegra, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata, La Forza del Destino, and
Un Giorno dil Regno. Upcoming Amici performances in 2008 will include
Macbeth, Vespri Siciliani, Andrea Chenier, and Rigoletto. And in 2005 I
sang to my bride, Alice Farber, at our wedding! I also play recorder and
have yet to figure out how to sing and play recorder simultaneously! |
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Raffaele Tudisco,
baritone, is the founder and impresario of the Amici Opera Company. He is
the first singer in history to have sung the lead in all 26 Verdi operas
and Verdi's requiem. His father ran an opera company in
Brooklyn with Alfredo Salmaggi. His zealous
quest to perfect his craft has sent him all over the world to study with
opera icons of the past, which include Aldo Protti, Giuseppe Valdengo,
Gianfranco Cecchele, Paolo Silveri and Eddy Ruhl. A native Philadelphian,
Ralph won the Mario Lanza scholarship two consecutive years. He has
studied over seven hundred operas, and sung over 100 leading roles,
becoming an opera historian while amassing an extensive collection of
original recordings, playbills and photographs. He currently performs in
local operas, directs and produces the Amici Opera Company, gives private
voice lessons and lectures on opera history at local colleges and
libraries. Ralph's goal is to keep opera alive in the
Philadelphia area and perform obscure and often neglected operas. |
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Tiziana Vieira,
pianist, has international experience as Coach and Rehearsal Pianist with
such Opera Companies as the Teresa Carreno Opera Theater in Caracas, the
Ateneo of Caracas, to the Lake George Opera and Columbus Opera among
others. She holds a Master's Degree in Music from Temple University and a
Bachelor's Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Musical
Studies in Caracas, Venezuela. Further studies include the Workshop of
German Lied by Ingeborg Danz and Almut Eckels, Summer Chamber Festival by
Marta Gulyas (Real Conservatorio de Madrid, Santander-Spain) and piano
master classes with Michele Campanella (Accademia Chigiana di Musica,
Siena- Italy). Besides being the Principal Coach of the Center City Opera
of Philadelphia, she is currently the Director of Coaching Staff of the
Atlantic Coast Opera Festival and collaborator of many institutions in
Philadelphia. Tiziana is also a freelance Opera Coach with 30 operas to
her repertoire and conversant in 4 languages. |
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Danielle
Vita,
soprano, a New York native was born into a musical family and started
playing piano at age four and violin at age eight. Her background includes
a Bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Adelphi University and a
Masters degree in music education from the Aaron Copland School of Music,
where she also studied opera and vocal pedagogy. She has performed such
roles as Sophie from Der Rosenkavalier, Sister Genovieffa from Puccini's
Suor Angelica, Baby Doe from Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, and
Madame Lidoine from Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites. Ms. Vita
has appeared with the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra under the baton of
Maestro Christopher Lyndon-Gee singing the role of Marzelline in a concert
of highlights from Beethoven's Fidelio that also featured internationally
acclaimed soprano Carol Yahr and baritone Kerry Henderson. Ms. Vita made
her Carnegie Hall debut as a soprano soloist in the world premiere of
William Anderson's "The Death of Virgil." Ms. Vita has studied with such
coaches as Joan Krueger, Steven Sulich, Chris Fecteau, and Douglas Martin.
She currently studies voice with soprano Sherry Overholt. |
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