Hubbard Hall Opera Theater
Past Productions
February 2013
La Traviata
Director: Heidi Lauren Duke
Conductor: Maria Seni Sellner
Violetta: Rachele Schmeige
Alfredo: Chris Lucier
Germont: Robert Aaron Taylor
www.metroland.net/2013/02/20/tweeting-verdi/
SCHENECTADY – Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre is a company who has been producing opera in Cambridge for the past several summers and is now offering its first winter production in the G.E. Theatre at Proctors in Schenectady...The voices are better than good and the emotions they generate can be touching. Though the G. E. Theatre space generates some problems that often go unsolved, it is a treat to see opera in an intimate environment and to enjoy gorgeous music without amplification. It’s a special joy to have a large and lush 18 piece orchestra, conducted by Maria Sensi Sellner, accompany without overpowering the young talent who perform in full costume. Playing the dying consumptive courtesan, Violetta Valery, is soprano Rachele Schmiege...When confronted by her lover’s father she is tenderly touching as she sincerely and believably expresses the woman’s despair. -Bob Goepfert
www.dailygazette.com/news/2013/feb/07/la-traviata-thrives-despite-modern-touches/
November 2012
La Bohème, abridged
Director: Jason Dolmetsch
Musical Director: Michael Clement
Mimi: Vedrana Kalas
Musetta: Irina Petrik
Rodolfo: Brian J. Kuhl
Marcello: Kevin Kees
Alcindoro: Alex Jones
http://berkshirereview.net/2012/10/29/singers-notes-puccini-boheme-hubbard-hall/
http://berkshireonstage.com/2012/11/05/review-an-enchanting-la-boheme-by-candlelight-in-Bennington-Vermont/
August 2012
Magic Flute
Director: Paul Houghtaling
Conductor: Kelly Crandell
Papageno: Andrew Pardini
Tamino: Brian Kuhl
Queen: Brooke Schooley
Pamina: Mary Thorne
From the NY Times - Sept. 16, 2012 - "I've seen Mozart's joyous opera many times, and this was the best by far. It was an exhilerating event. You couldn't monetize it; you couldn't commodify it ... you could only experience it."
Cox and Box/Trouble in Tahiti (Conservatory*)
Director: Jason Dolmetsch
Musical Director: Elizabeth Bonomo
Bouncer/Sam: Jeff Martin
Box: Alex Canovas
Cox: Josh Gurwitz
Dinah: Elaina Pullano
Trio: Paige Porter, Juan Ahumada
June 2012
Abduction from the Seraglio
Director: Jason Dolmetsch
Musical Director: Kelly Crandell
Konstanze: Jeanai La Vita
Belmonte: Victor Khodadad
Blonda: Abigail Seaman
Pedrillo: Juan Ahumada
Osmin: Jeff Martin
August 2011
Don Pasquale
Director: Heidi Lauren Duke
Conductor: Maria Sensi Sellner
Don Pasquale: Brace Negron
Norina: Vedrana Kalas
Malatesta: Andrew Bawden
Ernesto: Glenn Seven Allen
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2011/aug/14/0814_opera/
Dido and Aeneas (Conservatory*)
Director: Julia Mintzer
Musical Director: Elizabeth Bonomo
Dido: Karen Jesse
Aeneas: Patrick Cook
Belinda: Abigail Seaman*
Sorceress: Kaitlyn McMonigle*
Spirts and Witches:
Amanda Perera* and Amy Shake*
Sailors and Soldiers:
James McAdams* and Sanghyun Im*
June 2011
The Medium
The Medium 2011: http://berkshirereview.net/2011/06/hubbard-hall-sondheim-menotti/
Director: Jason Dolmetsch
Musical Director: Kelly Crandell
Baba: Victoria Tralongo
Monica: Alexina Jones
Toby: Miles Mandwelle
Mrs. Gobineau: Elissa Premerlani
Mr. Gobineau: Ivan Amaro
Mrs. Nolan: Anneliese Von Goerken
Monica understudy: Hannah Moss (past SC participant)
November 2010
La Bohème, abridged
Director: Jason Dolmetsch
Musical Director: Michael Clement
Mimi: Jessica Feigenbaum (past SC participant)
Musetta: Hillary Esqueda (past SC participant)
Rudolfo: Siddhartha Misra
Marcello: Julian Whitley
August 2010
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel 2010: Eastwick Press, Berkshire Review
Director: Dianna Heldman
Conductor: Michael Ricciardone
Gretel: Alexina Jones
Hansel: Kara Cornell
Witch: Victoria Tralongo
Mother: Irina Petrik
Father: Julian Whitley
Dewfairy: Jessica Fishenfeld (Select Conservatory)
Sandman: Hillary Esqueda (Select Conservatory)
August 2009
The Tragedy of Carmen
La Tragedie de Carmen 2009: Eastwick Press, Gail Sez, Troy Record
Conductor: Michael Ricciardone
Micaela: Tara Burnham
Carmen: Kara Cornell
Don Jose: Cameron Smith
Escamillo: Andrew Cummings
August 2008
Cosi fan tutte
Cosi fan Tutte 2008: Berkshire Review and Gail Sez
Director: Dianna Heldman
Conductor: Richard Giarusso
Despina: Alexina Jones
Dorabella: Kara Cornell
Fiordiligi: Roza Tulyaganova
Don Alfonso: Ivan Amaro
Guglielmo: Richard Mazzaferro
Ferrando: Brian Tanner
Questions: alixjones@hubbardhall.org
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