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PavarOpera Presents! La Boheme
Operas Greatest Love Story!
PavarOpera PRESENTS!
La Boheme
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Time: Sunday February 16, 2020 at 3 PM
Location:
Old Pine Presbyterian Church's Duffield Hall.
412 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19147
Spend an Afternoon in Paris this Valentine Weekend and hear Giacomo Puccini’s story of bohemians, artists and poets come to life! An abridged version of the classic, including operas most loved and cherished arias and duets of love! (Sì mi chiamano Mimi, O soave fanciulla, Che gelida manina, Quando m’envo’).
Following performance, Cast Q& A, Refreshments and French hors d’oeurves available.
20% of Proceeds donated to the Flick Memorial Tuberculosis Center.
TICKETS -
ONLINE: $15.00 for Adults, $10 for Students/Seniors $5.00 for Children (Under 18)
AT THE DOOR: $20.00 for Adults, $15 for Students/Seniors, $7 Children
For A Good Cause
In the opera, La Boheme, Mimi, the Protagonist, contracts Tuberculosis. PavarOpera's Performance will donate 20% of all profits to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Tuberculosis Control
Program, which funds the Flick Memorial Tuberculosis Center. The Lawrence F. Flick Memorial Center Is The Clinical Site For PDPH's Tuberculosis Control Program. The Center Is Operated In Partnership With The American Lung Association And Is The Only Publicly Funded TB Clinic In Philadelphia. The Flick Center Opened In 1998 To Aid Philadelphia's Efforts To Wipe Out Tuberculosis. It Also Serves As A Referral Center For Complicated TB Cases From Other Districts In Pennsylvania. The Flick Center Has Also Been Effective In Evaluating And Treating Newly Arrived Immigrants. The Flick Center Provides Directly Observed Therapy (DOT), Medications, And Clinical Evaluations Free Of Charge.
https://www.phila.gov/programs/tuberculosis-control-program/
La Boheme
Our Talent
Performers for our February 2020 Performance for
Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme. Learn more about this event.
PavarOpera's Cast of La Bohème 2020
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Soprano Brittany Cusack is an Irish-American Dramatic Soprano. Recent engagements include Gioconda in La Gioconda, Maliella in I Gioielli della Madonna, Adriana in Adriana Lecouvreur, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, Musetta in La Boheme, High Priestess in Aida and Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro. Past engagements include Erste Dame in Di
Soprano Brittany Cusack is an Irish-American Dramatic Soprano. Recent engagements include Gioconda in La Gioconda, Maliella in I Gioielli della Madonna, Adriana in Adriana Lecouvreur, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, Musetta in La Boheme, High Priestess in Aida and Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro. Past engagements include Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Rossweisse in Die Walküre at Lincoln Center, Ortlinde in Die Walküre, Witch in Hansel and Gretel, and Freia in Das Rheingold. Brittany portrayed Lady Macbeth in the International Electroacoustic Festival’s production Electrified Lady Macbeth. Ms. Cusack graduated from Brooklyn College-Conservatory and Shenandoah Conservatory and is Mark Schnaible’s student.
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Soprano Kristal Daniels is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music; Baltimore, MA. Kristal has sung several roles with the international music festival La Musica Lirica; Novafeltria, IT. Roles: Mimi, La Boheme; Madame Lidoine, Dialogues of the Carmelites; Violetta, La Traviata; and title role, Sour Angelica. She also sung with the
Soprano Kristal Daniels is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music; Baltimore, MA. Kristal has sung several roles with the international music festival La Musica Lirica; Novafeltria, IT. Roles: Mimi, La Boheme; Madame Lidoine, Dialogues of the Carmelites; Violetta, La Traviata; and title role, Sour Angelica. She also sung with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre for their Opera Gala at Carnegie Hall as a soloist. Hailing from New Jersey, she studies under Patricia Green and works towards completing her MMus from the University of Western Ontario. In her life outside school, she lives and regularly performs at Oakcrossing Retirement Living.
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Soprano Sage DiPalma has sung Berta in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Elvira in Rossini's Litaliana in Ageri, Sussana and Cherubino in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro and covered Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. Upcoming in 2020, she will sing Oscar in Rossini’s Un Ballo in Maschera with Main Line Opera Guild.
Her debut as a soprano soloist occu
Soprano Sage DiPalma has sung Berta in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Elvira in Rossini's Litaliana in Ageri, Sussana and Cherubino in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro and covered Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. Upcoming in 2020, she will sing Oscar in Rossini’s Un Ballo in Maschera with Main Line Opera Guild.
Her debut as a soprano soloist occurred in Avery Fischer Hall as a soloist at Lincoln Center with DCINY. Other experiences as a soloist have included choral works in R. Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, Mozart's Requiem and the standard G.F. Handel's Messiah, among others. She is a graduate of Temple University's Boyer College of Music in Vocal Performance.
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Baritone Ian Highcock received their Bachelor of Music Performance degree from the College of New Jersey in December 2011. As a member of TCNJ’s Lyric Theatre, Ian sang the roles of Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, and Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. Ian again sang the role of the M
Baritone Ian Highcock received their Bachelor of Music Performance degree from the College of New Jersey in December 2011. As a member of TCNJ’s Lyric Theatre, Ian sang the roles of Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, and Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. Ian again sang the role of the Major-General with Pennsbury Community Chorus in 2013. Ian was the bass soloist for TCNJ Chorale and Orchestra’s U.S. and N.Y. premieres of George Friedrich Haas’s Sieben Klangräume accompanying the unfinished fragments of Mozart’s Requiem. Ian sang the title role of Noah in Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde under the baton of James Moyer at Lawrenceville Presbyterian in May 2014. In November 2014 Ian was the baritone soloist for the Fauré Requiem with Singing City under the baton of Jeffrey Brillhart.
Ian was a professional chorister with Opera Boheme NJ from 2009-2018, and their major credits with the company were the Notary in
Don Pasquale, the Marquis in La Traviata and most recently Morales in Boheme’s 2016 production of Bizet’s Carmen. Ian was the Bass Section Leader at Trinity Episcopal Church in Moorestown under Vernon Williams for three years and is now the Bass Section Leader at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Freehold under Brit Montoro. Ian has been professional cantor at the Queenship of Mary Catholic Church in Plainsboro since 2014 and a soloist for Temple Har Sinai's High Holidays since 2012.
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Hailed by Opera News for “the most musical and stylistic sophistication onstage, taking everything...as Rossini would have expected, ” John Villemaire, tenor, recently received numerous accolades for his portrayal of the “stratospheric” Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel in NYC. American tenor Fred Cushman presented twice John the Lynne C
Hailed by Opera News for “the most musical and stylistic sophistication onstage, taking everything...as Rossini would have expected, ” John Villemaire, tenor, recently received numerous accolades for his portrayal of the “stratospheric” Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel in NYC. American tenor Fred Cushman presented twice John the Lynne Cushman Award, made his Carnegie Hall debut in a passionate scene from Roméo et Juliette in 2014. Engagements include Count Almaviva- The Barber of Seville at Surflight Theatre, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore with Boheme Opera NJ Company, Title Role in Debussy's L’enfant Prodigue and Carlo Tresca in The Silk City with Garden State Opera, Il Duca in Rigoletto with Atlantic City Opera Theatre, title role of Le Comte Ory - OC Brooklyn, Ferrando- Cosi fan tutte with Rutgers Don Ramiro, La Cenerentola (Opera New Jersey/Opera Columbus); Giannetto - Rossini’s La gazza ladra, (Bronx Opera); Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, Orff's Carmina Burana - Hunterdon Symphony, Gounod’s Faust with Orchestra Society Philadelphia. Mr. Villemaire maintains an active voice teaching studios where students have achieved top places in numerous competitions and performed in national tours of musicals and on Broadway.
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Soprano Emily Woodruff performs standard and contemporary vocal repertoire across the U.S. and abroad. On the concert stage, Emily has premiered contemporary vocal works in the Composers Now Festival and Composer’s Voice Concert Series (Manhattan), the Brooklyn College ElectroAcoustic Music Festival, the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival,
Soprano Emily Woodruff performs standard and contemporary vocal repertoire across the U.S. and abroad. On the concert stage, Emily has premiered contemporary vocal works in the Composers Now Festival and Composer’s Voice Concert Series (Manhattan), the Brooklyn College ElectroAcoustic Music Festival, the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, and the NEXTET new music series at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She also premiered the role of Geraldine in Christabel, a chamber opera by Jennifer Bellor, and gave the New York premiere of California-based composer George N. Gianopoulos’ Op. 12 Three Songs for Soprano.
Within the standard opera repertoire, Emily has appeared as Gilda (Rigoletto), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Giulietta and Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Michaela and Frasquita (Carmen), Mimì (La Bohemè), Marguerite (Faust), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Violetta (La traviata), and Thais (title role), and she also sang the role of Rusalka in the Philadelphia premiere of Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka.
Emily holds both a B.A. in Music and an M.A. in Music Theory and History from the Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Honors College, as well as an M.A. in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music. She regularly performs opera, operetta, and musical theater in the greater Philadelphia area.
Music Director for La Boheme, February 2020
Music Director
Tim Crawford earned his Master of Music degree in solo piano performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He is a pianist and accompanist in the Philadelphia region, both in opera, having performed approximately 80 complete operas- and in instrumental music. Tim is married and the loving father of three little girls, Adelaide, Vivian, and Eleanor.
