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Here is the 2021 Student Vocal Showcase

June 6, 2021 by Frank Finkenberg

During this unusual time, the Opera Guild Board of Directors has worked hard, in close cooperation with the Fred Fox School of Music faculty and staff, to continue to aid local students of opera and bring the joys of opera to the community. Although it was not possible to hold our annual festive Quest for the Best! this year, thanks to the generosity of our members and other donors we were still able to award over $8,000 to a great crop of current students. They recorded their arias in a COVID-safe environment at school or in their homes.

As an online audience-judged competition would have faced insurmountable technical and artistic hurdles, prizes for the Showcase are equal in each division—$700 for graduate students and $400 for undergraduates. But just as in Quest, a limited number of singers were nominated, and their choice of aria approved, by their primary voice teacher.

Please visit our website to view (and download) all the  graduate and undergraduate arias. The successful nominees are listed below in alphabetical order, with direct links to their arias.

Graduate Students — $700 Awards

Yue Huang
Yiyan Ji
MyeongJu Kang
Suyoung Lee
Yongjae Lee
Bethany Pehrson
Diana Peralta
Rebeckah Resare

All Graduate Videos

Undergraduates — $400 Awards

Rachel Alvord
Nannette Avendano Rodriguez
Arianna Campbell
Topher Esguerra
Lylah Field
Nadari Hockenhull
Abigail Juganaru
Timothy Simon

All Undergraduate Videos

Filed Under: Listen, News, Quest for the Best, Watch

2021 Student Vocal Showcase Graduate Student Arias

June 6, 2021 by Frank Finkenberg

To download any aria in a choice of video resolutions, click on its title. This takes you to the Vimeo website; then simply click on the Download button.

Go to Undergraduate Arias

Yue Huang, soprano: Je suis encore tout étourdie, from Manon, by Jules Massenet

Yiyan Ji, mezzo: When I am laid in earth, from Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell

MyeongJu Kang, soprano: Je suis Titania, from Mignon, by Ambroise Thomas

Suyoung Lee, baritone: Largo al factotum , from Il barbiere di Siviglia, by Rossini

Yongjae Lee, baritone: Io morrò ma lieto in core, from Don Carlo, by Giuseppe Verdi

Bethany Pehrson, soprano: Crudele?…Non mi dir, from Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Diana Peralta, mezzo: ¿Qué te importa que no venga?, from Los Claveles, zarzuela by José Serrano (1873-1941)

Rebeckah Resare, soprano: Ah! Je veux vivre dans le rêve, from Roméo et Juliette, by Charles Gounod

Go to Undergraduate Arias

Filed Under: Listen, Quest for the Best, Watch

2021 Student Vocal Showcase Undergraduate Students

June 5, 2021 by Frank Finkenberg

To download any aria in a choice of video resolutions, click on its title. This takes you to the Vimeo website; then simply click on the Download button.

Go to Graduate Arias

Rachel Alvord, soprano: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini

Nannette Avendano Rodriguez, soprano: Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio, from Le nozze di Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

Arianna Campbell , soprano: Tornami a vagheggiar, from Alcina, by George Frideric Handel

Topher Esguerra , tenor: Is there not one maiden breast, from The Pirates of Penzance, by Arthur Sullivan 

Lylah Field , soprano: Deh vieni, non tardar, from Le Nozze di Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nadari Hockenhull, soprano: Obéissons quand leur voix appelle, from Manon, by Jules Massenet

Abigail Juganaru, soprano: Batti, batti o bel Masetto, from Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Timothy Simon, soprano: Vainement, ma bien-aimée, from Le roi d’Ys, by Édouard Lalo

Go to Graduate Arias

Filed Under: Listen, Quest for the Best, Watch

Photos from Quest for the Best 2019

April 20, 2019 by Frank Finkenberg

If you missed 2019’s Quest, get some of the visual flavor with these photos by Howard Weiss. For the full experience, watch videos of all the graduate and undergraduate arias.

Interior of Holsclaw Hall
Launch slideshow

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Filed Under: News, Photos, Quest for the Best

2019 Quest for the Best Graduate Student Arias

April 12, 2019 by Frank Finkenberg

The Fred Fox School of Music technical staff captured all the arias on video. The top undergraduate student prize winners are:

RankAmountDonorWinner
First (tie)$1250OGSA in honor of Patrick and Patricia SchifanoChunghee Lee
First (tie)$1250OGSA in memory of Stokes TolbertDiana Peralta
Third$750Mary Casady in memory of Richard L CasadyYuchen Luo

To download any aria in a choice of video resolutions,click on its title. This takes you to the Vimeo website; then simply click on the Download button.
Uncompressed audio files are also available upon request to the webmaster.

Go to Undergraduate Arias

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First Place ribbon
Third Place ribbon

Go to Graduate Arias

Filed Under: Keep Off Homepage, Listen, Quest for the Best, Watch

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