--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Smith" <msilver1...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > I love the mezzo voice, and the parts seem to be more > > interesting, more character. What roles does she sing? > > Have you had a chance to see her perform? > > Fort Collins is 40 minutes from the university so > anytime she performs, I go and attend. She performed > with the TEATRO LIRICO DâEUROPA in Germany and was > able to join them again last month when they came > through Colorado last month.
That's an excellent company, I've heard. > http://www.vilarpac.org/vpac/press-center.aspx?mode=detail&id=vpac09_3 > > Her role in Aida which they performed was one of the > chorus, these were the slave girls of the queen. > Freshman-sophomore students generally end up in chorus > positions, lead roles generally offered to seniors or > graduate students but this year, her third, she's been > offered a lead role in Pirates of Penzance as one of > the sisters, Neat--that's either Edith, the role I had in the Oberlin production of Pirates when I was there, or Kate. Just for the heck of it, here's me as Edith, more than 45 years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36189...@n02/3344309202/ (I'm hardly an opera singer; I had just barely enough of a voice to sing the mezzo roles in amateur G&S productions; and I was a mezzo only by virtue of not having any high notes!) Your daughter should have great fun with this role. > did an opera scene as Carmen, mezzo role, was Hansel > in Hansel and Gretel which she did well. First opera I ever saw, as a little kid. > They have a woman's glee club which is the largest > in the US, 120 girls and sounds remarkable. Each year, > the university puts together a Gala which shows off > every department in the music major from jazz, opera > to symphony. At the end of the concert, they combine > the symphony with the chorus, for example Handel's > Messiah. It's unbelievable. The whole music program > is fantastic because there's only a few hundred people > in the entire music major, Sounds like a fabulous program. What great experience and training for her. > everyone is friendly and you don't have that cut throat > competition Awful metaphor for singers! > that you may find in the eastern schools. That's not to > say that it's not competitive, you just don't find razor > blades in the piano keys. (a rumor started about > Julliard) Sheesh, never heard that. Hope it wasn't true. I do remember hearing gossip about nasty competition at the Oberlin Conservatory, but nothing like that. > The directors are amazingly talented, this one guy who > puts the opera productions together is very talented. > Melissa Malde, the voice teacher has done a lot of work > with her for almost four years now. That's terrific. How fortunate you live in the area. Do you sing? > > http://www.arts.unco.edu/pva/faculty/bios/malde.html >
