06 December 2010

27th ANNUAL PALM SPRINGS OPERA GUILD VOCAL SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION WINNERS



The Palm Springs Opera Guild
Scholarship - $5000


Jacquelynne Fontaine
Soprano, 28

Prog
ram:
Je veux vivre
Charles-Francois Gounod
Romeo et Juliette

Ah! non credea mirarti..
Ah! non giunge
Vincenzo Salvator Bellini
La Sonn
ambula





The Rena
ta Tebaldi
Scholarship - $3000


Yujoong Kim
Tenor, 26


Program:
Una furtiva lagrima
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
Franz Lehar
Das Land des Lacheins






The Lily Pons
Scholarship - $2000


Karen Vuong

Soprano, 26

Program:
No word from Tom
Igor Stravinsky
The Rakes Progress

Depuis le jour
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Louise






The Luciano Pavarotti
Scholarship - $1500


Joshua Guerrero
Tenor, 27


Program:
Questa a quella
Giuseppe Fortunino Verdi
Rigoletto

La fleur que tu m'avais jetee
Georges Bizet
Carmen







The Jean C. Carrus
Scholarship - $1000

Marina Harris
Soprano, 25

Program:
Come scoglia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cosi fan tutte

Du bist der Lenz
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Die Walkure





The Palm Springs Opera Guild
Runners-Up Awards - $500 each


Melissa Batalles
Soprano, 25

Program:
Caro nome
Giuseppe Fortunino Verdi
Rigoletto


Glitter and Be Gay
Leonard Bernstein
Candide


Rachael Hirsch
Soprano, 23

Program:
Che faro senza Euridice?
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice

Glitter and Be Gay
Leonard Bernstein
Candide





Alexey Sayapin
Tenor, 25


Program:
Ella mi fu rapita
Giuseppe Fortunino Verdi
Rigoletto

Che gelida manina
Giacomo Antonio Puccini
La Boheme







Valerie Vinzant

Soprano, 26

Program:
O luci di quest'anima
Domenico Gaetano Donizetti
Linda di Chamounix

Gavotte
Jules Massenet
Manon



Special Encouragement Award
$250


Anna Schubert
Soprano, 21


Program:
The soldier tir'd of war's alarms
Thomas Arne
Artaxerxes



Scholarship Sponsors


The Palm Springs Opera Guild
Scholarship -$5000

Craig & Barbara Salsbury, Diane Rubin, and Don & Peggy Cravens

The Renata Tebaldi
Scholarship -$3000

George Klauss

The Lily Pons
Scholarship -$2000

Theresa Berman, Kathy Sanders, and Dr. Kurt & Edit DeCrinis

The Luciano Pavarotti
Scholarship -$1500

Terry Hendrix & Gracia Alkema, Stephen Lind, Arthur & Patty Newman and Gladys Rubenstein

The Jean C. Carrus
Scholarship -$1000

Jean C. Carrus

The Palm Springs Opera Guild
Runners-Up Awards of $500 each

The Don & Ruth Tosti Opera Guild Fund and Anonymous Donors

The Special Encourag
ement
Award -$250

Michael Cressey in memory of Joan Sutherland


Judges

(Left to Right)
Patricia Minton
Valery Ryvkin
Kenneth Morris




Music Director and Pianist

Mona Lands

24 November 2010

VOCAL SCHOLARSHIP FINALIST ANNOUNCED


The Jud
ges Have Announced
the Competition Finalists!

Palm Springs Opera Guilds
27th Annual Vocal Scholarship Competition
Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theatre at the Palms Springs Art Museum
Box Office: 760.325.4490


The judges for the audition portion of the Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Scholarship Competition which took place in both Los Angeles and Palm Springs have made a very difficult decision and based on the very close ratings of the audition applicants selected the finalist. The following finalist will move on to the Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Scholarship Competition final event on December 5, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. at the Annenberg Theatre in the Palm Springs Art Museum at 101 North Museum Drive in Palm Springs.

This exciting annual event is open to the public and the Guild cordially invites you to join us for the final competition and cash scholarship awards presentation. Tickets are available at the Annenberg Box Office at 760.325.4490. Seats are $40. PSOG Members receive seats at a member discount rate of $35.

Palm Springs Opera Guild
Vocal Scholarship Competition Finalist for 2010


1. Yujooong Kim: Lyric Tenor
2. Alexey Sayapin: Lyric Tenor
3. Jacquelynne Fontaine: Soprano
4. Marina Harris: Soprano
5. Joshua Guerrero: Lyric dramatic tenor
6. Melissa Batalles: Soprano
7. Rachael Hirsch: Mezzo soprano
8. Karen Vuong: Soprano
9. Douglas Carpenter: Baritone
10. Valerie Vinzant: Soprano

Special Award: Anna Schubert: Soprano

21 November 2010

SAVE THE DATE: DECEMBER 5, 2010


The Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert
Cordially invites you to

AN EVENING IN THE ATRIUM


A Post Vocal Scholarship
Competition Benefit Dinner


Exciting Silent Auction
Passed Canapés and Wine
No-host bar
Dinner with Wine
Entrée selections from the Hyatt’s new Chef

(1.) Vegetable Burrata en Croute
(2.) Rib Eye with Cabernet Reduction
(3.) Pan Seared Salmon with Lemon Caper Beurre

Dessert, Coffee, Tea

Replete with operatic interlude by Vocal Scholarship Winners


Sunday, December 5, 2010

6:00 P.M.

Hyatt Regency Suites Palm Springs Atrium


$125.00 per person donation
($65.00 tax-deductible)

Kindly RSVP to the Guild with details
760.325.6107

Host Sponsor: Hyatt Regency Suites

18 November 2010

PALM SPRING LIFE FEATURES PSOG & VALERY RYVKIN

Excerpts from the December issue of Palm Springs Life feature article "THE THREE MAESTROS" by Linda Mears Hardie.

A NEW OUTING

"For all of the impressive notches in his opera-conducting belt, Valéry Ryvkin is a realist when it comes to the popular appeal of the genre.

He recognizes that some scores engage audiences more than others — such as Mozart’s "Die Zauberflöte" ("The Magic Flute"), which he conducted for the first time recently in Greensboro, N.C., as artistic director of the city’s opera company. “I have to say I adored it,” Ryvkin says. “It was refreshing.”

Another refreshing experience awaits him when he raises the baton for the daylong Opera in the Park on March 27, 2011, spotlighting some of the Southwest’s brightest new talent. It will mark the second year Ryvkin has lent his skills to Palm Springs Opera Guild’s popular event, now in its 13th year. “It is so important for young, would-be performers to experience the audition process for the Palm Springs opera competition,” he says.

“One of the deciding factors in who performs at Opera in the Park — part of a prize for that competition — is career potential, because if they succeed at this level, it means financial help and more opportunities to perform elsewhere.”

While Ryvkin may find it hard to believe the desert has 5,000 die-hard opera fans who would clamor to attend, for example, "The Maid of Orleans" (the Russian production with which he made his European debut last year in Germany), he sees potential in the informal ambiance of Sunrise Park attracting those whose musical tastes lie elsewhere. “They might say, ‘Hey, this is not that scary; we should try opera sometime.’”

And they would be among the converts making opera the fastest-growing performance art in the country, enjoying a 35 percent increase in its audience in the past decade, according to The New York Times.

If Ryvkin could make an opera sound like Broadway by putting a big orchestra and big voices behind it (as in "Séance on a Wet Afternoon"), then further decoding it with a series of youthful vocals under blue skies and sunshine is all to the greater good of the art."

Click here to read the entire article at PalmSpringsLife.com and if you are not a current subscriber, look for the December Palm Springs Life issue at your favorite news stand or outlet now.

07 October 2010

2010 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP PARTY and MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT!



SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2010
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

This years party will be held at the beautiful Thunderbird Heights home of PSOG members Jean and Maury Kemp.

Free for all current PSOG Members.
$35.00 for non-members wishing to explore becoming part of the PSOG Membership community.

Non-members call the PSOG office at 760.325.6107 for advance tickets and directions as attendance is limited to this premier private event.

Valet parking will be provided at the event.

PSOG staff and volunteers will be freely available to provide information and answer membership questions as well as assist in processing new membership applications or donations with payment by either check or credit card.

Remember that in addition to supporting the Guilds mission though it's educational and community outreach programs with a tax deductible donation, a generous portion of your annual membership dues are also tax deductible.

06 October 2010

27th ANNUAL VOCAL SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION FINALS and AWARDS PRESENTATION


SUNDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

The Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum
101 North Museum Drive in Palm Springs, California 92262

TICKETS

$40.00 (General Admission)
$35.00 (Palm Springs Opera Guild Members)

MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT TICKET NOTE:

One complimentary ticket for this event is included at the Donor, Bravissimo Donor and Single Allegro Membership Levels.
Two complimentary tickets for this event are included at the Allegro Couple Membership Level.
Three complimentary tickets for this event are included at the Patron Membership Level.
Four complimentary tickets for this event are included at the Lily Pons Membership Level.


Visit the PSOG Membership page for member information and a downloadable membership application.

Call the Annenberg Box Office at 760.325.7186 for advance tickets for this extremely popular and traditionally sold out event.

NOTE ON AVAILABLE VOCAL SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Tax Deductible Vocal Scholarship Sponsorship Opportunities are needed and available.
The Guild is proud to acknowledge that this long standing Vocal Scholarship platform along with the community and professional exposure it creates has helped propel many successful past participants on to exciting careers with contracts in noted opera houses throughout the world.
Join us with your support and become an integral part of that ongoing legacy.
Please call the Guild office at 760.325.6107 to offer assistance with any Vocal Scholarship Sponsorship Level that fits within your giving plans from $500.00 to $5000.00.
It is a wonderful and personal way to honor or memorialize someone important in your life or to showcase the giving spirit of your business while assisting in the education and promising vocal careers of talented young men and women.

05 October 2010

"AN EVENING IN THE ATRIUM " POST VOCAL SCHOLASHIP COMPETITION BENEFIT DINNER


Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert Presents


"An Evening In The Atrium"

THE 2010 POST VOCAL SCHOLARSHIP
COMPETITION BENEFIT DINNER


A Sparkling Evening with Operatic Interludes
by Vocal Scholarship Finals Winners!


Sunday, December 05, 2010
6:00 P.M.

The Atrium of the Hyatt Regency Suites Palm Springs
(Platinum Host Sponsor)

Featuring

Overture
Complimentary wine and canapés with piano entertainment and cash bar

Act 1
Silent Auction
Peruse and bid on an exciting assortment of goods and services
Accompanied by continued entertainment

Act 2
Complete Dinner with Choice of Entrees
(Meet and experience the talents of the Hyatt Regency Suites new Chef)

Vegetable Burrata en Croute
Rib Eye with Cabernet Reduction
Pan Seared Salmon with Lemon Caper Beurre
Wine

Finale
Deserts, Coffee and Tea served to an Operatic Finale

$125.00 per person
($65.00 of your benefit donation is tax deductible)

Reserve your party now. Tables of eight are available.

Call the Guild office @ 760.325.6107 for reservations

15 September 2010

VOCAL SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION 2010


CASH SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

$5,000.00
First Place
$3,000.00
Second Place
$2,000.00
Third Place
$1,500.00
Fourth Place
$ 750.00
Fifth Place
$ 500.00
Runners Up

PRELIMINARY AUDITION DETAILS ANNOUNCED!

LOCATION / DAY / DATE / TIME

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Saturday, November 06, 2010 - 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music 445 Charles E. Young Drive S
2539 Schoenberg Music Building, Room 1325
Los Angeles, California 90095

PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Raymond Cree Middle School
1011 East Vista Chino Palm Springs, California 92262

DOWNLOAD AUDITION APPLICATION
AND IMPORTANT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT DETAILS

APPLY EARLY !

AUDITION APPLICATION SUBMISSION DEADLINE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2010


PRIMARY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

1. Applicants shall reside in the states of California, Arizona, Nevada. (Applicants attending school out of these states are not eligible to compete.)
2. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and not over the age of 30.
3. To be considered a $15.00 non-refundable audition application processing fee must accompany each application.
4, Applicants repertoire must include four (4) Opera Arias.
5. First place winners of the Metropolitan Opera Western Regional Auditions in the same year are not eligible for this competition.
6. Previous First Place winners of the Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition are not eligible for this competition.
7. Applicants who have signed contracts with MAJOR Opera Companies are not eligible for this competition.
8. A valid social security number will be required from the successful scholarship winners.
9. Audition times will NOT be rescheduled once the final schedule has been formalized.

CANCELLATION POLICY

Failure to notify the Guild of any required cancellation will disqualify applicant from participation in future Guild auditions. Audition Application Processing Fees are non-refundable.

DOWNLOAD AN AUDITION APPLICATION
AND IMPORTANT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT DETAILS


APPLY EARLY!

Winners will also be eligible to sing in the Palm Springs Opera Guild's 13th Annual Opera In The Park held in beautiful Sunrise Park in Palm Springs in late March 2011.

21 August 2010

MET OPERA 2010-11 HD SIMULCAST SEASON


AN AMBITIOUS 12 STUNNING PRODUCTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 2010-2011 SEASON!
TICKETS AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 7, 2010



Wagner’s Das Rheingold – New Production

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 3 hours

Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage. The cycle launches with Das Rheingold, the prologue to Wagner’s epic drama. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos,” says Lepage, who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world’s greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel sings the leading role of Wotan for the first time with the company, heading an extraordinary cast.

James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov – New Production

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 5 hours

René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles in a new production by Stephen Wadsworth. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s epic spectacle that captures the suffering and ambition of a nation, with Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk leading the huge cast.

Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk’s production premiered in 2006, the New York Times called it “brilliant” and “wonderful.”

James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo

Verdi’s Don Carlo – New Production

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 4 hours, 30 minutes

Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts. “I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera,” Hytner says. “Right through this opera there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most fantastically determined music.”

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson


Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, January 08. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Puccini’s wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” starring opposite Marcello Giordani. Nicola Luisotti conducts.

Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo

Adams’s Nixon in China – New Production

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, February 12. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 4 hours

“All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology,” says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera. “The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history.” Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon’s 1972 encounter with Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars in the title role.

John Adams; Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, Richard Paul Fink

Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, February 26. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s nuanced and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth. Tenor Paul Groves also returns to Stephen Wadsworth’s insightful production, first seen in 2007. Patrick Summers conducts.

Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins

Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, March 16. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 4 hours

Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007–08 season in Mary Zimmerman’s hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo.

Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn

Rossini’s Le Comte Ory - New Production

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, April 09. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 3 hours

Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met’s hit productions of The Barber of Seville and The Tales of Hoffmann, describes the world of the opera as, “a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both—with the most beautiful love music Rossini ever wrote.”

Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi

Strauss’s Capriccio

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, April 23. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 3 hours

On Opening Night of the 2008–09 season, Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss’s wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself. Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis conducts.

Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose

Verdi’s Il Trovatore

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, April 30. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 3 hours

David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. James Levine leads this revival, starring four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.

James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Wagner’s Die Walküre – New Production

LIVE IN HD: Saturday, May 14. 2011 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 pm EST)
ENCORE: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 at 6:30 PM (All Time Zones)
Expected Running time: 5 hours, 15 minutes

A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brünnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka.

James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König

10 April 2010

OPERA GUILD PRESIDENT GEORGE KLAUSS' PICK OF OPERA IN THE PARK 2010 PICS


This coming weeks posts will be featuring some of the favorite
pictures of this years Palm Springs Opera Guild production
of Opera In The Park picked by the Guild's President
George Klauss. Okay all you beautiful people you know who
you are! Enjoy.


George Klauss & Renee Glickman

Patty & Arthur Newman










09 April 2010

MORE OPERA IN THE PARK 2010


Our continuing presentation of pictures from
this years Palm Springs Opera Guild's production
of Opera In The Park.





The Singers












Court Moe & students









Maestro Valery Ryvkin conducts
the Palm Springs Opera Guild
Orchestra














Andrew Eisenmann & Renee Glickman

07 April 2010

NEW PSOG MEMBERS ENJOY A NIGHT AT THE ANNENBEG THEATER


THE AMERICAN CHAMBER TRIO




Many folks took the opportunity to sign up early for the Palm Springs
Opera Guild's 2010-2011 Membership Season at the Membership
Tent at Sunday's Opera In The Park Concert and Festival. As an
incentive for sign up at the event the Guild offered tickets to
The American Chamber Trio's performance on Tuesday, April 6 at
the Annenberg Theater. The Palm Spring Opera Guild's Board
Membership Chair Marie Staudhammer and Board Secretary
Fay Bock along with many additional Board Members and current
Guild members welcomed a group of almost 40 that included the new
members and their guests to Tuesday evenings performance.

The critically acclaimed Trio which includes June DeForest, Cellest
Daniel Morganstern and pianist Eric Larsen performed a delightful
and eclectic mix of pieces. They opened with Anton Dvorak's
"Trio in E minor, Op. 90 "Dumky"
and did a surprisingly
wonderful segue into William Ryden's "The Wonderland Rags
for Violin, Cello and Piano"
. The evening culminated with a
sensitive and persuasive performance of Franz Schuberts's
"Trio in B Flat Major, Op. 99"
.

The enjoyable early week interlude is one of the many similar
events the Guild hopes to promote and support with attendance
in the upcoming 2010-2011 Opera Guild Membership season so join
early and enjoy the many benefits of membership while supporting
the Palm Springs Opera Guild's Youth Outreach program, the Vocal
Scholarship Competitions, Opera In The Park and other Community
Outreach activities and programs.

You can download an application here on the blog, call the
Guilds office at 760.325.6107 or send an email request for an
application to OperaGuild@verizon.net and put "Application" in your subject line.

04 April 2010

SOME OPERA IN THE PARK 2010 PHOTOS-MORE TO COME!


The Palm Springs Opera Guild Orchestra
with Opera In The Park 2010 Singers













Photos courtesy of tenor Kenneth Morris



















































More photos from tenor Kenneth Morris in our
"Opera In the Park 2010 Photos" album at Facebook.