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HANSEL and GRETEL

August 12th: Pay-what-you-will Understudy Show, 8pm

AUDITIONS:
Seeking MOTHER and WITCH submissions. NEW! Now seeking FATHER submissions.

Auditions will be held by appointment on March 27th in Niskayuna, NY. If you are not able attend the audition date you may email a video with selections in both English and German.

Please send $20 audition fee along with headshot and resume to Hubbard Hall Opera Theater, 1109 County Route 68, White Creek, NY 12057

All auditions with materials postmarked by March 20th will be granted. This audition is for emerging professionals; stipend and housing available.

Questions: alixjones@hubbardhall.org

SELECT CONSERVATORY
Summer 2010: July 26-August 23

The HHOT Select Conservatory is designed to teach advanced high school seniors, college and graduate level students the basic and finer points of classical and musical theatre performance from the perspectives of both actor and singer. In this four week intensive workshop participants not only receive song analysis classes, private voice lessons, private song coachings, and a series of master classes on subjects related to the field, but also are coached in acting technique, basic scene study and monologue audition preparation.

Six candidates will be accepted
Scholarships are available for local applicants
Comprimario and cover roles are available

Please click here for more information and application instructions: MS Word format or PDF format.

August 2009 Production
LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN

HHOT's 2009 production of Peter Brook's LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN

Check out some of our reviews below:

• La Tragedie de Carmen 2009: Eastwick Press, Gail Sez, Troy Record
• Cosi fan Tutte 2008: Berkshire Review and Gail Sez

See photos by Jon Barber of past productions.

Questions: alixjones@hubbardhall.org

Meet Our Director

Mezzo-Soprano Dianna Heldman has performed extensively throughout the United States. She has received praise for her performances of Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Tisbe and Cenerentola (La Cenerentola), Despina and Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Siebel (Faust), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Musetta (La Boheme), Mrs. McLean (Susannah), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) and Ludmilla (Bartered Bride) with Birmingham Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Lyric Opera of Dallas, Opera Festival of New Jersey, The Florentine Opera, Cincinnati Opera,. Sarasota Opera, Opera Memphis, American Opera Projects, Kentucky Opera, Lyric Opera of San Antonio and Opera North. Dianna made her New York debut at Weill Hall in 1995 premiering Summer’s End, songs by Carlton Clay. Since then she has performed with New York City Opera in productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, La Traviata, The Magic Flute, Kinkakuji,Mikado, Rigolettoand La Cenerentola. A favorite of the company, she sang the roles of Rosina and Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Musetta in La Boheme and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly in NY City Opera’s National Company tours of 1995, 1997 and 1999 as well representing the company in a concert in Manaus Brazil.

Equally active on the concert stage, she has sung with the symphonies of Indianapolis, Columbus, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Utica, Schenectady, and Catskill Symphonies. Her other oratorio performances have included Requiem masses of Mozart and Durufle, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Magnificats of Bach and Rutter, the St. John Passion, Christmas Oratorios of Bach and Saint Saens, and the Mass in C minor by Mozart. Dianna is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Music Educators National Conference and the American Guild of Musical Artists. Ms. Heldman holds degrees from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnai, Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam, Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria and University of North Texas. She currently is the Associate Director of Vocal Performance at New York University’s Steinhardt School. Dianna was invited to work with Hubbard Hall Opera Theater last season in her directing debut of Cosi fan tutte which was hailed as “brimming with originality and insight.”

Meet Our Conductor

Michael Ricciardone has worked extensively in musical theatre and classical music both as a singer/ performer and as a pianist/coach/conductor. He joined the national tour of Sunset Boulevard in 1999, performing the role of Max. In the summer of 1998 he starred as Georges in the Theatrefest production of La Cage aux Folles at Montclair State University. He completed a South American tour as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, and appeared as Major Griniev in The Captain’s Daughter at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. His most recent credits include Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha and Charles in High Spirits. On television, he was the first actor to sing on the series Law and Order. Mr. Ricciardone has also been featured in Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS and in pops concerts with the Cairo Symphony (Egypt), Festival of the Atlantic and St. Peter’s Orchestra.

In the classical repertoire, he has sung the leading tenor roles in New York premieres of Leoncavallo’s Zaza and Zandovai’s Giulietta e Romeo, as well as leading roles in La Bohême, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, La Rondine and La Traviata. An accomplished pianist, Mr. Ricciardone has worked with Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Rex Harrison. He has been Assistant Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera under David Stivender; Co-Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for San Francisco Opera; and Music Administrator, Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for Greater Miami Opera. On Broadway he has served as Assistant Conductor to Franz Allers for productions and national tours of My Fair Lady and Camelot. Mr. Ricciardone was the co-founder and artistic director of Brooklyn Theatre Works. He holds degrees in piano, accompanying and conducting from Mannes College of Music and Manhattan School of Music, with additional study at Catholic University of America and The Juilliard School. Presently Mr. Ricciardone is the Assistant Coordinator of Vocal Studies at The Steinhardt School at New York University.