KSC Opera Workshop Presents Selected Scenes
KEENE, N.H. 3/24/06 - KSC Opera Workshop will present a number of opera scenes on Tuesday, April 11. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Recital Hall of the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond. Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for KSC students, senior citizens, and youth 17 and under. Call the box office at 603-358-2168.
Professor of music Carroll Lehman directs the scenes with professors Elizabeth Blood and Scott White providing piano accompaniment. The scenes to be presented are from Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, The Abduction of Seraglio, and The Marriage of Figaro; Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief; and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Students performing are: freshmen, Crystal Ashoury, Karissa Mahoney, Heather O’Connor, Steve O’Brien; sophomores, Jordan Daigle, Caitland McDougall, Lindsey Murphy, Brandon Wheeler; junior, Iris Yaun; and seniors, Jenny Beauregard, Christopher Gempp, and Roger Theriault.
KSC Opera Workshop was founded by Dr. Carroll J. Lehman, professor of music, in 1979 and has been offered over the years when his schedule allows it and there are students capable of handling opera repertoire. The workshop introduces young singers to the world of opera. It teaches them the basics of opera performance practice, such as moving on stage, acting, character development, and vocal projection.
Lehman, a member of the Keene State faculty since 1978, also is the conductor and music director of the Monadnock Chorus in Peterborough. Under his direction, the chorus has toured Italy, Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Scandinavia. He has conducted the New Hampshire Friendship Chorus and Orchestra on tours of Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and South Africa. Lehman also formed the KSC Oratorio Society, which has performed many major choral masterworks with orchestra.
