Manon Lescaut (title role)
Opera Festival Chicago
7:30PM, Saturday, June 29, 2024 Cahn Auditorium 600 Emerson St Evanston, IL 60201 |
Manon Lescaut is a tragic love story that has been popular since its debut. It's about a beautiful young woman named Manon who falls in love with a local student named Des Grieux. After running away together, Manon becomes bored and goes to live with a wealthy tax-collector named Geronte. Geronte catches the couple together and has Manon arrested. Des Grieux tries to help her escape, but they are unsuccessful. Manon is about to be deported when Des Grieux manages to board the ship to the United States as a member of the crew. Manon eventually dies, declaring her love for Des Grieux one final time.
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Eva Perón in Corpus Evita
Musetta in La bohème
I will reprising the role of Musetta with Teatro Lirico D'Europa US Tour in Puccini's La bohème on one night only at the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, CA. This will be my sixth time singing in this iconic opera! https://www.mccallumtheatre.org/index.php/shows/2023-2024-season/la-boheme?refe=6904 |
Tosca (title role)
I will be making an exciting role debut as Tosca with Angels Vocal Art in my home town of Los Angeles! This is a one night only performance, marking the opening of a new season at Angels Vocal Art. They will be offering four different operas this Summer, starting with the infamous Tosca: a tragedy of passion and jealousy and a roller coaster of love, lust, murder and political intrigue. It tells the story of the tempestuous opera singer Floria Tosca as she fights to save her lover Cavaradossi from the sadistic police chief Scarpia. https://angelsvocalart.org/ |
Woman 2 in Letters that you will not get
July 29th-August 7th, 2022, I will debut the role of Woman 2 in a World Premiere Chamber Opera composed by Kirsten Volness with a libretto by Kate Holland and Susan Werbe. Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War gives voice to American, British, European, Asian, African and Caribbean women affected by WWI through a series of vignettes that share their responses to the war—from enthusiasm to resignation; support to opposition; the war’s beginning to its end. Combining powerful contemporary music with excerpts from women’s writings on both sides of the conflict, Letters tells the story of the Great War as experienced by the women who lived through it. Can be streamed via the link below.
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Marie in La Fille du Régiment
February 19-March 16th, 2022 I will be making a role debut as Marie in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment with Sarasota Opera.
Opéra comique in two acts Music by Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. Love for Marie, a girl raised by a French regiment, will lead the young Tonio to unexpected lengths in this colorful comedy set in the Tyrol during the Napoleonic Wars. https://www.sarasotaopera.org/event/daughter-regiment |
Elle in La voix humaine
Not a lot of live opera performances are happening this year, due to the pandemic, but I was lucky enough to make another role debut with Angels Vocal Art as Elle in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine. The pianist Kristof Van Grysperre and I performed indoors with a small stage while the audience watched from outside through windows, and via a screen projection with audio outdoors. Produced and performed during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, La Voix Humaine follows Elle, a woman at the brink of death, as she engages in one last phone call with her lover to reclaim their crumbling relationship. Angels Vocal Art presents a gripping tale teeming with infidelity, desperation and love lost. Performed live on February 26, 27, and 28, 2021.
This live performance was filmed and later screened at Laemmle NoHo in February of 2023. https://www.laemmle.com/film/voix-humaine |
Atalanta in La Corona and Apollo in Il Parnaso Confuso
Pacific Opera Project (POP), La Corona and Il Parnaso Confuso, on Friday, November 20 at 7:00pm and Saturday, November 21 at 5:30pm.
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Pacific Opera Project “more valuable than ever to L.A. opera” (Los Angeles Times), presents a double bill featuring the US premiere stagings of two rare, one-act Gluck operas. Ms. Sandidge will be debuting the roles of Atalanta (La Corona) and Apollo (Il Parnaso Confuso). La Corona was never performed during Gluck’s lifetime, as it was written for Francis I. The opera was resurrected in July 1987 when it received its world premiere at the City of London Festival for the bicentenary of Gluck’s death. Loosely based on the Greek myth of Atalanta, four sisters argue over who gets to hunt a wild boar and prince Meleagro.
visitcamarillo.com/events/pacific-opera-projects-la-corona-drive-in-performance/ |
Walter in La Wally
Musetta in La Bohème
In Sarasota's Winter 2020 season, I will also be performing Musetta in La Bohème.
Synopsis and background here: www.sarasotaopera.org/la-boheme-synopsis-background |