Santa Fe Opera Apprentices on Tour

Featuring an original opera, Words and Music, and excerpts from a variety of operas.  See full program description below.

 Concert Program:  2010 Spring Opera Tour

 Words and Music 

Conceived and written by: Acushla Bastible, Charles Gamble, and Kirt Pavitt

 Melody is a composer with writer's block; Webster is at various times her muse, foil, and lover

Melody is at work writing an opera and has reached a standstill.  Webster appears certain of two things that he, and only he, with his gift for language, can help Melody, and that he is looking for the perfect girl.  Melody initially brushes him off, finding him a distraction.  Webster is not so easily deterred.  They begin bickering and bantering about which is more important in opera:  words or music, demonstrate their points by singing from an aria or song.  As they move toward resolving the question of Words or Music, they also fall in love.

Intermission

 Clair de lune                                                                             Debussy

Second piece TBA

                                                Kirt Pavitt

Je te veux                                                                                

La Diva de l’Empire                                                                  Satie

                                                Jamie Rose Guarrine

The Green-Eyed Dragon with the Thirteen Tails                         Woolsey

                                                Sean Anderson

O quante volte                          Romeo and Juliet                    Bellini

                                                Jamie Rose Guarrine

Last Letter Home                     from  PFC Jesse Givens         Hoiby

                                                Sean Anderson

Papageno/Papagena Duet         The Magic Flute                      Mozart

                                                Jamie Rose Guarrine and Sean Anderson

BIOS

 Jamie Rose Guarrine, soprano, sings the role of Papagena in this summer’s Santa Fe Opera production of The Magic Flute, and returns for her second apprenticeship with the company.  She has also performed with Kentucky Opera, Utah Opera,  The Opera Company of Philadelphia, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and The National Symphony of Costa Rica.  In 2007, as a member of The San Francisco Merola Program, she sang Veronique in the world premiere of Pasatieri’s Hotel Casablanca.   (77 words)

 Sean Anderson, baritone, just completed ten performances as Papageno in The Magic Flute with Sarasota Opera.  In 2007 he made his New York City Opera debut as The Judge in Margaret Garner.  Sean was a Santa Fe Opera Apprentice in the summers of 2004 and 2005 and in 2007 returned for the company’s “One- Hour Opera” The Night Bell.  He has also performed Marcello in the acclaimed Baz Luhrman production of La Bohème.  In 2011, Sean will return to Sarasota Opera to sing John Proctor in The Crucible.  (88 words)

 Kirt Pavitt, pianist, has distinguished himself as both soloist and collaborative artist. He is at home in a variety of repertoire from Rachmaninoff and Chopin to Cole Porter and Gershwin.  

He accompanies many of America’s finest young singers and instrumentalists and has performed at Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, and numerous cities throughout America. His long time association with the Santa Fe Opera culminated in an appointment as full time Music Associate in February 2002.  A frequent partner with American soprano Christine Brewer, he is pianist on her CDs entitled Saint Louis Woman and Music for Awhile and has a solo CD entitled A Little Nice Music.