Chelsea Opera Company

Chelsea Opera Company was founded in 2004 by Leonarda Priore [http://www.chelseaopera.org/Images/T&V%20review.jpg] and Lynne Hayden-Findlayin and is located in New York City.

History

Chelsea Opera Company incorporated after its first production in 2004. [http://www.thevillager.com/villager_89/anightattheopera.html A night at the opera in Chelsea becomes a reality ] ] Carmine Aufiero (also of Dicapo Opera Theater [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/arts/music/22dica.html Carmine Aufiero Conducts Dicapo Opera Theater's "Beauty and the Beast"] and One World Symphony [http://www.oneworldsymphony.org/concerts_past/concerts0405_falstaff.shtml One World Symphony - Falstaff] [http://www.musiciansnews.com/95/one_world_symphony_conducted_by_david_hong.shtml One World Symphony / Bard College collaboration] ) is the company's musical director and conductor.The company's first season (2004-2005) included "Suor Angelica", "Cavalleria Rusticana", and "Amahl and the Night Visitors". [http://www.chelseaopera.org/pastseason.html Chelsea Opera past seasons]

Performances and performers

Chelsea Opera Company's 2005 production of Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" featured Spanish mezzo-soprano Magdalena Llamas (of New York Grand Opera [http://www.newyorkgrandopera.org/summer2004.htm Magdalena Llamas in "Rigoletto" at New York Grand Opera] and the Opera Theater of Connecticut [http://www.sanibelmusicfestival.org/opera_theater_of_connecticut.html Magdalena Llamas sings at the Opera Theater of Connecticut] ), Colombian baritone Alex Britton (of Brooklyn's Regina Opera Company [http://www.reginaopera.org/otelphot.htm Alex Britton at Regina Opera Company] ), Puerto Rican bass Jorge Ocasio [ [http://www.novoartists.com/ocasio.html Jorge Ocasio - Bass ] ] (a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions), and 11-year-old Nick Agar-Johnson. [ [http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/review/review.aspx?id=1217 Opera News > The Met Opera Guild ] ]

Chelsea Opera's 2006 production of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" [http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/section/castcrew/show/119264 Chelsea Opera's I Pagliacci on TheaterMania.com] , with artistic direction by Rod Gomez, [http://www.rodgomez.com Rod Gomez, Director] featured tenors Daniel Rodriguez [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/arts/music/09pagl.html?ex=1167886800&en=288994fc1035dbf2&ei=5070 Daniel Rodriguez, New York's 'Singing Cop,' Tries an Opera - New York Times ] ] (protegé of noted tenor Placido Domingo), and Christopher Campbell (of Glimmerglass Opera, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the New York City Opera National Company [http://www.operaworks.com/ccampbell.php Christopher Campbell on Operaworks.com] ) in the role of Canio. Soprano Maryann Mootos (Marquis Award winner in the Emerging Professional Division of the 2006 Classical Singer competition [ [http://www.classicalsinger.com/bios/bio.php?id=103 Maryann Mootos - Classical Singer Community ] ] ) alternated with soprano Crystallia Spilianaki (of Opera in the Heights [http://www.operaintheheights.org/images/new_gall/index.html Crystallia Spilianki - Operaintheheights.com] ) in the role of Nedda.

References

External links

* [http://www.chelseaopera.org/index.html Chelsea Opera]