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Juneteenth Panelists

Asia Sparks

Audri-Scott Williams

Barret Brooks

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 Artist, Activist, Host of The Spark PlugPodcast.. 

Barret Brooks

Audri-Scott Williams

Barret Brooks

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Former American Football Offensive, Superbowl XL Champion, NBC Sports Commentator

Audri-Scott Williams

Audri-Scott Williams

Brenda Shelton-Dunston

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 Author, Advocate and Organizer for Peace and Justice  

Brenda Shelton-Dunston

Brenda Shelton-Dunston

Brenda Shelton-Dunston

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 Executive Director of the Black Women’s Health Alliance.

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Consolee Nishimwe

Brenda Shelton-Dunston

Consolee Nishimwe

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  Author, Motivational Speaker and Survivor of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994

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Juneteenth Celebration, Inspiration and Education, Panel Discussion

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Juneteenth Black Voices Concert...Coming Soon!!!

Rosie Bonds

Jacqueline Burris

Jacqueline Burris

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Singer, Songwriter

Jacqueline Burris

Jacqueline Burris

Jacqueline Burris

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 Christian Singer and Songrwriter

Ronald Campbell

Jacqueline Burris

Ronald Campbell

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Bass-Baritone

Sarai Cole

Makeda Hampton

Ronald Campbell

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Makeda Hampton

Makeda Hampton

Makeda Hampton

Singer, Educator

James Johnson

Makeda Hampton

Makeda Hampton

Tenor

Laurice Kennel

Laurice Kennel

Laurice Kennel

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Soprano

Najwa Parkins

Laurice Kennel

Laurice Kennel

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Singer, Educator

Asia Sparks

Laurice Kennel

Jeffrey Smith

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Artist, Activist, Host of the Spark Plug Podcast

Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith

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Musician, Producer, Singer/Songwriter

Melba Moore

Jeffrey Smith

Melba Moore

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American Singer, Award Winning Actress and Entertainer.

Ms. Melba Moore and the Black National Anthem

Learn the history of this Anthem and one of the Pioneers who pushed to make give this song the importance that it holds in the community.

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
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La Boheme

Our Talent

Performers for our February 2020 Performance for 

Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme. Learn more about this event.

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PavarOpera's Cast of La Bohème 2020

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Musetta

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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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Mimi

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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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Marcello

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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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Rodolfo

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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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Mimi

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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.

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