Robinson Music Soprano to Present
Vissi d’arte - Vissi
d’amore . . . Così è la vita!
I live for art
- I live for love . . . Such is li
06/07/14 – WORCESTER, MA – Soprano Karen Amlaw, accompanied by pianist Mark McNeill, will present Vissi d’arte - Vissi d’amore . . . Così è la vita! I live for art - I live for love . . . Such is life! on Sunday, June 7th, 2014 at 3 PM in Birches Auditorium at Briarwood Community Center, 65 Briarwood Circle, Worcester, MA. Admission to this performance is free and open to the public (donations to defray the costs of preparing and presenting this program will be accepted at the door).
The
program, selections of women’s musing moments in songs & arias, is planned
to open with Amy Beach’s Three Browning
Songs followed by Richard
Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. The second half of the program includes arias
from Puccini’s Tosca, Verdi’s Ernani, Cilèa’s Adriana Lecouvreur, and Ponchielli’s La Gioconda.
Ms. Amlaw, first alternate in Connecticut Concert Opera’s 2013
American Opera Idol Competition, recently has
been proclaimed as “magnificent,” “absolutely gorgeous,” and “destined to
sing.” In 2003 she returned to
singing after a 15 year leave and since then has sung several partial roles
including Verdi heroines Aida (Aida),
Elvira (Ernani), Desdemona (Otello),
Leonora (La forza del Destino), Elisabetta (Don Carlo) and both Amelias (Un ballo in maschera & Simon
Boccanegra). Other partial roles
have included Nedda (Pagliacci), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana),
Maddalena (Andrea Chénier),
and the title roles in Tosca, La Gioconda, Madama Butterfly, and Adriana
Lecouvreur, among others. She sang
Mother Gerald in Boston Opera Collaborative’s production of Dialogues of
the Carmelites under the
direction on Marc Astafan and Michael Strauss and has been featured in
programs with Longwood Opera, Opera Worcester, Mass Theatrica, Greater
Worcester Opera (formerly known as Worcester Opera Works) and Lowell Opera
Company. Ms. Amlaw is currently
under the tutelage of world renowned dramatic mezzo Sondra Kelly and acclaimed
New York based coach/conductor Douglas Martin.
When not singing you can find Ms. Amlaw in Studio #5 at Robinson Music
teaching Kids on Keys as well as private piano.
A sought after collaborative
pianist, Boston native Mark McNeill is a graduate of the Longy School of Music
in Cambridge, MA, where he earned a graduate performance diploma with
distinction in collaborative piano with an emphasis in vocal
accompaniment. As a Stern Fellowship
recipient at Pepperdine University‘s Songfest
in Malibu, California Mr. McNeill worked with Martin Katz, Graham Johnson,
and Margo Garrett. He has served as
assistant music director for Intermezzo, the New England Chamber Opera Series,
and has further experience with both stage and musical directing, conducting
and arranging for small orchestra, and audio recording/production. Past recitals have taken him to Germany,
Austria, Greece, and throughout the Northeast.
His current and past teachers include Brian Moll, Elena Roussanova Lucas
and Meropis Kollarou.
To
find out more about Ms. Amlaw or this upcoming performance
Visit
Ms. Amlaw’s website at www.karenamlaw.com/Karen-
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