Renee Richardson shall be joined by particular friends Blake Riley, piano. The efficiency will characteristic songs of African American composers, Florence B. Worth, William Grant Nonetheless, Rosephanye Powell, H. T. Burleigh and H. Leslie Adams. It is going to additionally embrace an arias by Massenet, Previn, Korngold and Puccini.
A primary-year Houston Grand Opera Studio artist, Haitian-American soprano Renée Richardson hails from Springfield, Pennsylvania. Through the 2022-23 season at HGO, she is going to carry out the function of Annina in “La traviata”. Final season she sang Mimì in Puccini’s “La bohème” on the Academy of Vocal Arts, the place she studied with Invoice Schuman. Additionally at AVA, she sang the Overseas Princess in Dvořák’s “Rusalka”, the title function and Suor Dolcina in Puccini’s “Suor Angelica”, and Inès in Donizetti’s “La favourite”. She holds a Skilled Research Diploma in Voice from the Cleveland Institute of Music, the place her roles included Fiordiligi in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”, Béatrice in Berlioz’s “Béatrice et Bénédict”, and the title roles in Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and Cherubini’s “Medea”. Richardson has been seen in a number of Pensacola Opera productions together with “Carmen”, “La bohème”, and “The Pirates of Penzance”. She was the recipient of an A. Grace Lee Mims Scholarship for Negro Spirituals and was the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Kennett Symphony. She was not too long ago named a finalist within the Vincerò Worldwide Opera Competitors in Naples, Italy. Richardson acquired her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Efficiency from the College of West Florida.
Blake Riley, affiliate professor and director of collaborative piano, teaches class piano, utilized piano and international language lyric diction at UWF. He studied at Mount Allison College and the College of Toronto and acquired a grasp’s diploma in collaborative piano from the College of Cincinnati Faculty Conservatory of Music, the place he participated in masterclasses with Warren Jones, Brian Zeger and Stephanie Blythe. He was additionally an apprentice coach at CCCM’s summer time program in Lucca, Italy.
Ticket costs are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors and army, $14 for UWF college and workers and non-UWF college students and $7 for highschool college students. UWF college students get in free with a legitimate Nautilus card.
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