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Conservatory Spring Opera | Richard Harrell, director and Darryl Cooper, acting music director
When
- Saturday
- Mar. 31, 2012
- 7:30 PM
Description
Richard Harrell is an internationally recognized leader in the field of opera training and production. He currently serves as visiting faculty for the Opera Studio of the Netherlands. Previously he was the administrative director of the Juilliard Opera, director of the San Francisco Opera Center, including the Merola Opera Program, artistic advisor and head of faculty for the training program of the New National Theatre in Tokyo, and formerly served as artistic consultant for the Bangkok Opera. He is an active regional stage director and has been a stage director, voice teacher and guest master class instructor at many universities and opera training programs. As well as being a frequent adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, his essays on artist training and the business of opera appear in many Opera America publications. As a vocalist, Mr. Harrell has recorded on the Deutsche Grammophon label and has performed with various national and international opera companies and symphony orchestras.
Darryl Cooper, pianist and coach, has been the assistant music director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Opera Program since 2003. He studied at Florida State University, Brevard Music Center and the New England Conservatory, and he holds a M.M. from the Conservatory. His teachers have included James Streem, Marilyn Neeley, Margo Garrett and Timothy Bach. He is also on the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and has been a member of the opera and coaching faculties of The Boston Conservatory, Boston University Theater Institute, Crittenden Opera Studio, Chautauqua Opera, Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute, SummerSong and an Artist-In-Residence at Brandeis University. Mr. Cooper has prepared numerous professional and workshop opera productions in the Bay Area, New England and Italy. In addition, he has prepared Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story ballet for the San Francisco Ballet and is a teaching member of The Singer’s Gym. He is an active recital partner and has been heard on WGBH Radio, Boston.
Recently appointed assistant music director for San Francisco Opera, Giuseppe Finzi made his Company debut in 2008 conducting The Elixir of Love for Families and returned for performances of La Bohème. A native of Bari, Italy, he studied composition and conducting at the Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. Finzi has worked as an assistant conductor, coach and pianist at Milan’s La Scala, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Florence and Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri. He made his conducting debut in 2003 with Tosca at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza and returned in 2004 for La Traviata. Finzi has since led productions of L’Elisir d’Amore and Madama Butterfly in Catanzaro, Rigoletto in Tirana, L’Elisir d’Amore in Foggia and Carmen in Calabria and Fidenza. His upcoming engagements include Così fan tutte in Brindisi and at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro. In the 2009-10 San Francisco Opera season Finzi conducts performances of Abduction from the Seraglio and La Fanciulla del West.
Performers:
Giuseppe Finzi, guest conductor
Opera Theatre
Venue:
Cowell Theater at Fort Mason
Darryl Cooper, pianist and coach, has been the assistant music director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Opera Program since 2003. He studied at Florida State University, Brevard Music Center and the New England Conservatory, and he holds a M.M. from the Conservatory. His teachers have included James Streem, Marilyn Neeley, Margo Garrett and Timothy Bach. He is also on the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and has been a member of the opera and coaching faculties of The Boston Conservatory, Boston University Theater Institute, Crittenden Opera Studio, Chautauqua Opera, Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute, SummerSong and an Artist-In-Residence at Brandeis University. Mr. Cooper has prepared numerous professional and workshop opera productions in the Bay Area, New England and Italy. In addition, he has prepared Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story ballet for the San Francisco Ballet and is a teaching member of The Singer’s Gym. He is an active recital partner and has been heard on WGBH Radio, Boston.
Recently appointed assistant music director for San Francisco Opera, Giuseppe Finzi made his Company debut in 2008 conducting The Elixir of Love for Families and returned for performances of La Bohème. A native of Bari, Italy, he studied composition and conducting at the Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. Finzi has worked as an assistant conductor, coach and pianist at Milan’s La Scala, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Florence and Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri. He made his conducting debut in 2003 with Tosca at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza and returned in 2004 for La Traviata. Finzi has since led productions of L’Elisir d’Amore and Madama Butterfly in Catanzaro, Rigoletto in Tirana, L’Elisir d’Amore in Foggia and Carmen in Calabria and Fidenza. His upcoming engagements include Così fan tutte in Brindisi and at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro. In the 2009-10 San Francisco Opera season Finzi conducts performances of Abduction from the Seraglio and La Fanciulla del West.
Performers:
Giuseppe Finzi, guest conductor
Opera Theatre
Venue:
Cowell Theater at Fort Mason
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Tickets
| $15.00-$20.00 |
Phone
510-652-6477
lbrown@sfcm.edu
Where
Tags
musical , theater , art , music , performing art
