World Premiere!

Fallen Angels


a trio of miniature operas
by Michael Oberhauser

Reviews

 

Performance Videos:

Lilith

Winter Interlude

Temptation

Autumn Interlude

The Name on the Door

Presented as part of the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival

Where? 
Mountain - at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
900 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001

When?
Saturday, July 14, noon
Sunday, July 15, 7:15pm
Friday, July 20, 10:15pm
Thursday, July 26, 8:30pm
Saturday, July 28, 4:15pm

The show runs one hour with no intermission.

How?
Tickets are $17 and can be purchased at capitalfringe.org or by calling 866.811.4111

Who?

Production Team:

Composer - Producer - Music Director

Michael Oberhauser's music has been performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU 88.5, by Opera Alterna, by the Ohio Northern University Symphony Orchestra, the Ohio Northern University Singers, and the opera department at the Catholic University of America. You may remember Michael's opera in the 2009 Fringe Festival, Magnum Opus. BM: Ohio Northern University, MM: Catholic University, and he will be beginning work toward his doctorate this fall at the University of Maryland.

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Director - Nick Vargas
Stage Manager - Esteban Hernandez
Lighting Designer - Philip Jorgensen
Marketing/PR - RaeAnn Roca

Cast List:

Lilith

 Lilith

A regional finalist of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, soprano Courtney Kalbacker is a busy singing actress and  private voice and acting instructor in the Baltimore/D.C. area. Past performances of note include "Angelina" in Trial by Jury and “Adele” in Die Fledermaus with the Victorian Lyric Opera Co., and performing as a soloist in works such as Handel's Messiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mozart's "Coronation" Massand Exsultate, jubilate.  Ms. Kalbacker resides in Baltimore with her husband, baritone Jeffrey Grayson Gates.  She is thrilled to be part of this exciting production! More info at: www.CourtneyKalbacker.com. 

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Adam

Joseph Pleuss

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Eve

Shelby  Claire holds a Master’s degree in Music with a concentration in vocal performance from Peabody Conservatory, where she was named “Outstanding Voice Student” in 2011. While earning her Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Birmingham Southern College, she was recognized as the top vocalist from 2007 to 2009. Shelby has studied with many distinguished professionals, including Jennifer Casey Cabot, Steven Rainbolt, Eileen Cornett and Jerome Shannon. Shelby has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe in such roles as Mozart’s Queen of the Night, Offenbach’s Olympia (The Doll), Menotti’s Lucy from The Telephone and Puccinii’s Sister Genovieffa from Sour Angelica. She has also performed as a soloist with various orchestras. Among other prestigious awards, Shelby placed first in the Maryland/Washington, D.C. National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, Frances & Dorsey Whittington Competition, Alabama National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition and Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition.

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Temptation

Stephen

Andrew Sauvageau

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Joshua

Benjamin Taylor

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Veronica

Mezzo soprano Francesca Aguado’s voice has been praised as being a very solid mezzo sound and as having excellent support; her acting has been commended as being engaging and very effective. She is a native of Maryland who performs frequently throughout the greater Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Last month she portrayed the title role of Carmen for the Hub Opera Ensemble. Past Credits Include: Lucia (Cavalleria Rustica); Ariodante (Ariodante); Ma Joad (The Grapes of Wrath, suite version); Marthe (Faust); Dorabella (Così fan tutte); Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti); Maurya (Riders to the Sea); Sesto (Giulio Cesare); Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors) and Captain Frands von Frauenliebe (The Beautiful Bridegroom, presented at the 2009 National Opera Association Conference). Ms. Aguado has studied in Graz, Austria and Waimea, Hawaii, as well as locally. She holds a Master’s of Music in vocal performance from Towson University and a Bachelor's degree in vocal performance from the University of Maryland College Park. In addition to an active performance schedule, Ms. Aguado as a faculty member of Hagerstown Community College, the Roberson School of Music in Columbia, MD, and has her own private voice studio in the Hagerstown/Frederick area.

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The Name on the Door

Jezebel

Soprano Annie Gill’s opera roles include Nedda (Pagliacci), Manon (Manon), Mimi and Musetta (La Bohème) Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), with companies including Baltimore Opera Theatre, Repertory Opera Theater of Washington, Boston Opera Institute, the Washington Savoyards, and Opera in the Ozarks. Awards include First Place in the Kentucky Opera Idol Competition, First Place in the Summit City Art Song Competition, Second Place in the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Young Artist Competition, the Puccini Award in the Orpheus Competition, and Finalist in the Teaneck Opera Competition, Rochester Oratorio Society Competition, and the Opera New
Hampshire Competition. Ms. Gill received degrees from Indiana University, Boston University, and the Peabody Conservatory.

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Eli

Bennett Umhau has a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Wheaton College, and is currently putting that degree to use in as many ways as possible. He is thrilled to be performing in this the World Premier of Fallen Angels!  He performed the role of Archibald Grosvenor in Gilbert and Sullivan's PATIENCE while studying at Wheaton College, and he has appeared as the Speaker in the Southern Maryland Light Opera's performance of The Magic Flute. More  recently, however, he has performed in Die Fledermaus as the role of Frank, as well as the Usher in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial By Jury, both with the Victorian Lyric Opera Company.  He will be performing again with the Victorian Lyric Opera Company in Trial by Jury in DC's Capital Fringe Festival throughout the month of July. Bennett is anxiously awaiting to find out where else his singing will lead him!

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Josephine

Soprano Zoe Kanter is gaining recognition as a strikingly dramatic artist. Most recently, Miss Kanter was seen as Mary Warren in The Crucible with Peabody Opera Theatre as well as a recitalist at The Russian Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. accompanied by Vera Danchenko-Stern. She also participated in the world premiere of Ariel’s Tempest by Douglas Buchanan as the characters Trinculo, Stage Manager, and Juno. Her credits include work with American Opera Theater, Bel Cantanti Opera, and The Young Victorian Opera Theater. She received her Bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Miss Kanter is excited for her upcoming engagement as the soprano soloist for Mahler Symphony No. 4 under the direction of Pablo Saelzer at the Cultural Arts Center in Silver Spring MD.

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Orchestra:

William Yanesh

William Yanesh (Pianist) is also a composer; recent premieres including his opera The Man in the Black Suit, song cycles The Chanteuse and Four Campfire Songs, as well as his award-winningTailypo: Ghost Story for Orchestra. He has musical directed for the Washington Savoyards Light Opera Company, as well as Wildwood Summer Theater’s production this summer. During the school year he musical directs at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. As a pianist, he has worked on projects with John Kander, Marvin Hamlisch, David Loud and Robert Page, in such venues as Severance Hall, Heinz Hall, and the Kennedy Center.

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Flute - Kimberly Eloshway (7/14, 7/15, 7/20, 7/26)
          - Julianne Martinelli (7/28)
Clarinet - Elena Forbes
Violin - John Philligin
Viola - Henry Valoris
Assistant Rehearsal Pianist - Yufen Chou

What?

Fallen Angels
a trio of miniature chamber operas

The Fallen Angels Cycle is a set of miniature chamber operas, each about 15 minutes long and each for a cast of three. Each opera takes a religious story, takes it out of a religious context, changes the setting to a modern United States, and focuses on the moral grey area that is behind the "villain"s choices. The idea is to show how people in the present day, when placed in similar situations, might do similar things even if they themselves aren't "evil," as their portrayals typically are in religious literature. 


Want more info about the shows?

Lilith

Temptation

The Name on the Door

This production is presented as a part of the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival, a program of the Washington, DC non-profit Capital Fringe.

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tickets:  capitalfringe.org  866.811.4111