Victoria Opera House, Afternoon Arias at St John's In the Village Church

Opera singer and Founder of Victoria Opera House, Victoria Miningham, curates a delightful afternoon of opera arias from around the world that will delight the senses.PROGRAM: The greatest arias from around the worldLargo al factotum by G. Rossini, Figaros aria from the opera The Barber of SevilleMi Chiamano Mimi" by G. Puccini, Mimis aria from the opera La BohemeO soave fanciulla(Oh, sweet little lady) by G. Puccini, duet from the opera La BohemeQuartet from the 3rd act by G. Puccini, from the opera La BohemeAddio, del passato, Violetta's by G. Verdi, Violettas aria from La TraviataHabanera by G. Bizet, Carmens aria from the opera Carmen"Una furtiva lagrima" (A furtive tear) by G. Donizetti, from the opera L'elisir d'amoreL ci darem la mano by W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni & Zerlinas duet from the opera Don GiovanniAch, ich fhl's (She leaves in despair) by W.A. Mozart, Parminas aria from the opera Magic FluteBella figlia dell'amore quartet (Beautiful daughter of love) by G. Verdi, from the opera RigolettoBarcarolle Duet by J. Offenbach, from the opera Les contes d'HoffmannABOUT THE ARTISTS:VICTORIA MININGHAM, sopranoReminiscent of an American Beauty Rose with her elegance and youthful presence, Victoria made her professional operatic debut in "La Boheme" with The New York Grand Opera. She was heralded by the New York Times as a Saucy, beaming Musetta." Other operatic roles to her credit are Violetta in "La Traviata", Mimi in "La Boheme", Gilda in "Rigoletto", Countessa in "Marrage of Figaro" and Fiordiligi in "Cosi fan tutte". Victoria was invited into the Martina Arroyo Foundation in 2017. Recent performance venues include Prague, Czech Republic and Vienna, Austria. In NYC Victoria has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, St. Patricks Cathedral, New York Yacht Club, New York Bar Association and the Navy League NY Council. She is especially proud to offer her talents to charitable organizations as her way of giving back to her community. Ms Miningham took her degree in Music and Business from Manhattanville College and then studied opera with Maestro Vincent LaSelva at the Juilliard School and is currently studying Music Composition.JONATHAN R. GREEN, baritoneAmerican Verdi baritone Jonathan R Green is originally from Chicago IL and now resides in Brooklyn NY. He is an alum of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and studied with Richard Miller. Jonathan studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with distinguished professor of voice Timothy Noble. Jonathan also studied at the University of Kentucky with Dr Everett McCorvey. Jonathan's operatic credits include Rigoletto, Sir John Falstaff, Germont (La Traviata), Crown, Lawyer Fraizer (Porgy & Bess), Baron Scarpia, Sciarrone (Tosca), Detleff (The Student Prince), De Brtigny (Manon), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro and Barbiere di Siviglia), Marcello (La Bohme)BONNIE FRAUENTHAL, sopranoNative Arkansan soprano Bonnie Frauenthal is charming audiences across the country; in Pittsburgh she was labeled an audience favorite (Pittsburgh in the Round*). She has established herself as a natural actress with a supple-voiced lyric sound, well-handled coloratura and a warm middle register" (My Scena). Most recently she her role debut as Fiordiligi in Mozarts Cos fan tutte with North Shore Music Festival, presented at Castle Gould in Sands Point Preserve on Long Island.Ms. Frauenthal enjoyed several other debuts during her 2017 season. She starred in Richard Strausss Capriccio as the Countess with Apotheosis Opera in NYC. This difficult opera is uncommonly produced and was executed with gusto featuring a 55-piece orchestra. With Pittsburgh Festival Opera in Hndels Xerxes as Atalanta; [she] sang the role's music quite impressively, and acted the part with a charming sense of comic innocence.* Ms. Frauenthal performed her first Micela in Bizets Carmen with Opera Breve in New York; OperaWire raved, [Frauenthals] passionate rendition of the famous Je dis rivetedthe audience, and lauded the way she brought a wide-eyed innocence and verve to the role, fleshing out the sometimes two-dimensional peasant girl."Ms. Frauenthal joined the Sarasota Operas Apprentice Artists Program in fall of 2017, where she left an impression on Florida audiences in the season's annual and highly anticipated Lobby Concert and Opera Gala at Freedom Plaza, performing leading ladies in scenes from Rigoletto (Verdi), La Cenerentola (Rossini), Les Contes DHoffmann (Offenbach), La fille de regiment (Donizetti), Don Giovanni (Mozart), and Die Zauberflte (Mozart).Another notable role debut was her 2016 leading lady performances as Violetta in Verdis La Traviata with Dellarte Ensemble. NYC critics chronicled her talent: TheatreScene wrote, "Frauenthal sang and acted her complex role compellingly: she is a confident singer, capable of both womanly sturdiness and subtle virtuosity, and she inhabited the dense narrative of Violettas story credibly and compellingly, and Parterre Box noted, "in the role of Violetta Valry, Bonnie Frauenthal tackled the characters taxing demands of charisma, grace, and vocal acrobatics with admirable promise."She has performed with Bronx Opera, New Opera NYC, Utopia Opera, Main Street Opera (Chicago), Aspen Opera Theater, Opera in the Rock (Little Rock), and Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point. Additional past credits performed with full orchestra include Mimi in La Bohme, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Lauretta and Nella in Gianni Schicchi, and the title role of Gilbert and Sullivans Princess Ida.In spring 2016 she was a featured performer at Into the Blue, a benefit recital with guest speaker President Bill Clinton. Her honors and awards include the Trudy Oliphant Encouragement Award in the 2012 Tulsa Districts Regional Met Competition, New Horizons Scholarship at Aspen Music Festival, finalist in the Northwestern University Concerto Competition, and third place winner of Tulsa's Crescendo Music Award.EDUCARDO BELMONTE, tenorEduardo Belmonte, Tenor. Was born in Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua. He began his musical and vocal studies at the age of fourteen at the Conciliar Seminary of Ciudad Jurez under the tutelage of soprano Jessica Pea, where he also learned sacred and choral music. With the Choir of the Symphonic Orchestra of Ciudad Juarez, he participated in the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" and in the concert "Opera para todos" organized by El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua. He entered the School of Fine Arts in Mexico City in 2014 where he began his studies in operatic singing under the chair of soprano Martha Santibez and later with the mezzo-soprano Amelia Sierra and then with the Tenor Leonardo Villeda. He has received masterclasses from masters such as Enrique Patrn de Rueda, formerly director of the Palacio de Bellas Artes orchestra, Teresa Rodrguez, formerly couch at SIVAM (Artistic Society of Artistic Values of Mexico), Sergio Vzquez couch of SIVAM, James Demster and Mario Alberto Hernndez. He has participated in operas such as "Alcina", the zarzuela "La corte de Faran", "L'ocassione fa il ladro", "Il barbiere di siviglia", "Les mamelles de Tiresias", "Orfeo ed Euridice", "Lucia di lammermoor "," L'elisir d'amore ", "I capuleti ei Montecchi "," Magical Flute " and projects like the Bach Magnificat On February 2016, he was invited as a soloist and official psalmist during the visit of Pope Francisco to Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua. He was currently selected as a SIVAM fellow at the Zarzuela seminar given by Leopoldo Falcn. He participated in the show "Su majestad la Zarzuela" directed by Leopoldo Falcn accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of the Navy, interpreting "la jota de la Dolores". He has been part of the company "Arpegio" in his opera season for children in which they presented "El elixir de amor" by Gaetano Donizetti, at the Lunario from the national auditorium. He participated with the choir of the bicentennial theater in Len, Guanajuato in the functions of Bizet's opera Carmen. He also participated with the chorus Enharmonia Vocalis in the "Carmina Burana Monumental" performances recently presented together with the contemporary ballet of Cuba and the symphonic orchestra of Mexico in the national auditorium.He recently made his debut at the Paso del Norte Cultural Center in the concert held for the benefit of the Nirata Foundation, next to the pianist Angel Moiss Compen. He was awarded a scholarship to participate in the 2018 edition of the Institute of Belcanto in San Miguel de Allende. His repertoire includes works by Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Gounod, Mozart, among others.CHRISTINA HOURIHAN, sopranoScintillating Soprano and Voice Over Talent Christina Hourihan has a bright coloratura sound which is well-focused and well-suited to...trills, arpeggios, and wide skips (Voce di Meche, Meche Kroop). She has performed roles such as Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), The Bat (L'enfant et les Sortilges), and Papagena (Die Zauberflte). Career highlights include singing the roles of Adele in Die Fledermaus and Frasquita in Carmen with Delaware Valley Opera. She also sang the role of the coquettish Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Nevada Operas Young Artist Program, the feisty Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) with Delaware Valley Operas Young Artist Program, and covered the role of Oberto (Alcina) as a Young Artist with Opera Steamboat. In addition, she joined the Mediterranean Opera Studio in Caltagirone, Italy, where she performed in both Caltagirone and Palermo. No stranger to new music, Hourihan performed the world premiere of a set of songs called Neighbors: The Yard Critters which were composed for her voice by New York based composer David Morneau. She also collaborated with world-renowned pianist Kyungmi Nam to premiere A Wind in the Leaves, a piece composed by Danny Leo for the Vox Novus Music Festival at Symphony Space. In May 2019, Ms. Hourihan will be the soprano soloist in Haydns Mass in Time of War with the Choral Art Society of New Jersey. Ms. Hourihan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Muhlenberg College and a Master of Music degree from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. Christina currently resides in New York City.RAHEL MOORE, lyric sopranoRahel Moore, lyric soprano, attained her MMus., Advanced Vocal Performance (Opera Path) from the Royal College of Music, UK and BMus., Classical Singing, from the Manhattan School of Music, USA. It has been Rahels life-long dream to be an opera singer. Rahels roles include Pamina, Musetta, Dew Fairy/Sandman, Princess/Nightingale, Adele, Nannetta, Hanna, Euridice, Suzanne, and Sveglia. Rahel has performed in the United States, Europe and in her own country, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2017, Rahel performed the role of Pamina at the Berlin Opera Academy, demonstrating an ability to breathe life and complexity into a potentially static character. The Centre for Operatic Studies, Italy also offered her the role of Adina. Last summer Rahel performed the role of Musetta at the Vienna Summer Music Festival, Vienna, Austria.EMA MITROVIC, mezzo-sopranoEma Mitrovic, is described: ...I found Ema Mitrovic as the Monitress to be the standout (Opera Manhattan, Suor Angelica 12), ...her rich mezzo is pure pleasure (Hudson Opera Theatre, Lucia di Lammermoor 18). Shes performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, International House Philadelphia in title, Carmen, and NYCs renowned jazz clubs, including Birdland. This spring, she returns to Hudson Opera Theatre to sing Mercds and cover the title of Bizets Carmen and Suzuki in Puccinis Madama Butterfly. Credits include: Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Mrs. McLean (Susannah), Larina (Eugene Onegin), Siebel (Faust), Hansel (Hansel & Gretel), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Prince Charming (Cendrillon), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflote).MARKUS KAITILA, pianoBorn in Helsinki, in 1992, Markus Kaitila started playing piano at the age of six. After finishing high school and Sibelius Academys Junior Academy with Dr. Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna in 2012, he began university studies at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, with Prof. Till Engel. In spring 2017, Markus graduated cum laude with Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Aaron Copland School of Music, City University of New York Queens College, where he studied with Dr. Nina Lelchuk. He has participated in masterclasses i.a. with Thomas Ads, Paul Badura-Skoda, Leon Fleisher, Alan Gilbert, Bernd Goetzke, Angela Hewitt, Leslie Howard, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert McDonald, Olli Mustonen, Jon Nakamatsu and Boris Slutsky.Markus has performed as a soloist of the Joutseno Art Summer and Wratislavia chamber orchestras, Festival Orchestra at St. Peters, Queens College Chamber Orchestra and Jackson Heights Orchestra with conductors such as Tong Chen and Charles Neidich, and conducted J. S. Bachs Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053, from the piano in LeFrak Concert Hall, NY, in 2016. In June 2013 he won the Khler-Osbahr piano competition in Duisburg, Germany. Additionally, he has won First and Second Prizes in national chamber music competitions (Juvenalia, E. Melartin) and remains an active and widely experienced chamber musician on the line between mere gesture and great feeling (Barbara Kaiser, General Newspaper of the Lneburg Heath, 08/2012). Very much artistic substance. . .a promising young individual. . .an uncompromising performer (Ingo Hoddick, Rheinische Post, 05/2013). Full of spirits. . .exceptional pianist. . .a uniquely original hand: awareness of form and crystallineclarity. . .Romantic salon culture at the highest level (Konstanze Fhrlbeck, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 10.11.2013).Besides giving concerts throughout Finland, Markus has appeared extensively in Europe and the US. Events and venues include Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Austria (2010); Musica Mundi Festival 2008, Belgium; Yamaha Artists Services Europe, Paris (2012); Theater Duisburg and Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2013, Germany; Embassy of Finland, Budapest (2008); Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy (2013); Muziekcentrum Enschede, the Netherlands (2010); Helsingborg pianofestival, Sweden (2009); RNCM, Manchester, the UK (2010); as well as Mannes Concert Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall, New York, the US (2012-). Mr. Kaitila has kindly been awarded grants and stipends by Vantaan Perinnejazz ry, Wihuri and Finnish Cultural Foundation, Sibelius Academys endowment funds and Queens College Foundation. Markus received the Stephen Schaible and Daron Builta Scholarship to attend Music Academy of the Wests solo piano fellowship program in Santa Barbara, California, in summer 2015. In 2017, he completed the piano program at Chautauqua Institution in New York and an Early Fall Musicians residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. Before starting his Masters at NYU Steinhart in the fall, Markus is playing at Pianofest in the Hamptons June 19 through July 16 and appearing as soloist of the New Amsterdam Symphony on July 17 at St. Peters in Chelsea, where he has served as Music Director.