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EMERGING ARTIST RECITAL SERIES

ARIZONA OPERA STUDIO ARTISTSThe National Opera Center

April 20, 2017 | 7:00 p.m.

Katrina Galka, soprano

Mariya Kaganskaya, mezzo-soprano

Alyssa Martin, mezzo-soprano

Joseph Lattanzi, baritone

Zachary Owen, bass-baritone

Cody Martin, pianist and coach

PRESENTS

PROGRAM

La clemenza di Tito Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

“Ah, perdona al primo affetto”

Alyssa Martin

Katrina Galka

Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Il core vi dono”

Joseph Lattanzi

Mariya Kaganskaya

Cendrillon Jules Massenet (1842–1912)

“Ma pauvre enfant chérie”

Zachary Owen

Mariya Kaganskaya

Pelléas et Mélisande Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

“Mes longs cheveux descendent jusqu’au seuil de la tour”

Alyssa Martin

Joseph Lattanzi

Zachary Owen

Béatrice et Bénédict Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

“Nuit paisible et sereine!”

Mariya Kaganskaya

Katrina Galka

L’elisir d’amore Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)

“Quanto amore!”

Katrina Galka

Zachary Owen

Il barbiere di Siviglia Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)

“Dunque io son… tu non m’inganni?”

Alyssa Martin

Joseph Lattanzi

ABOUT THE ARTISTSKatrina Galka, a lyric coloratura soprano, has been recognized for her “fearless and courageous” performances and elegant musical interpretations. Originally from Milwaukee, Galka has had a long-time

passion for music and performing, beginning in musical theater and later expanding to the operatic stage. She joined Arizona Opera for their 2016–2017 season as a Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist, making her company debut as the First Wood Sprite in Rusalka and singing Clorinda in La Cenerentola. She will return in the 2017–2018 season to sing Cunégonde in Candide, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Woglinde in Das Rheingold, the Shepherd Boy in Tosca, and Medea, Zarathusa, Chained Woman and Helena in Hercules vs. Vampires. This summer, Galka also becomes a young artist at The Glimmerglass Festival, where she will sing Atalanta in Serse and Kate in Oklahoma! Other professional experience includes an upcoming performance as  Voice I in Douglas J. Cuomo’s Arjuna’s Dilemma, presented by The Dallas Opera as a part of OPERA America’s annual conference; a debut in 2016 as Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with The Atlanta Opera; and two summers spent with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist, performing the roles of Papagena in Isaac Mizrahi’s production of The Magic Flute and Isabel in The Pirates of Penzance. Galka holds an M.M. in vocal performance from Boston University and a B.M. in vocal performance from Southern Methodist University.

Mezzo-soprano Mariya Kaganskaya is currently a Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist at Arizona Opera, where she appears in the 2016–2017 season as the Third Wood Sprite in Rusalka, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Tisbe in

La Cenerentola. In summer 2017, she returns as a second-year apprentice singer to The Santa Fe Opera, where she will premiere the role of the Teacher in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and cover the role of Amelfa in The Golden Cockerel. A former Mosher Studio Artist at Opera Santa Barbara and a Young Artist at the iSING! International Festival, Kaganskaya has recently performed the Hostess in Boris Godunov (New Opera NYC and The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Scenes), Marta in Iolanta (New Opera NYC), La Nourrice in Médée (Mills Music Now/Opera Parallèle), the Mexican Woman in A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Santa Barbara) and Olga in Eugene Onegin (Russian Opera Workshop). She earned her M.M. and P.G.D. at San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Catherine Cook. At SFCM, her roles included Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park and the title role of Serse. She has collaborated with composers Elinor Armer, Ilya Demutsky, Philip Skaller, Diarmid Flatley, Samara Rice and Frank S. Li. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Orpheus Vocal Competition’s Jacqueline Polk Young Artist Award.

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In 2016, baritone Joseph Lattanzi led the world-premiere cast of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers at Cincinnati Opera. The New York Times hailed his performance as “splendid…his buttery baritone

luxuriant and robust” and later named the performances among the Best Classical Music of 2016. This season brings performances of Dandini in La Cenerentola at Arizona Opera, a return to Seattle Opera in Káťa Kabanová and a summer at The Santa Fe Opera. In the 2015–2016 season, he joined Arizona Opera for performances as Ríolobo in Florencia en el Amazonas, Moralès and Dancaïre in Carmen, and the title role in Don Giovanni. Lattanzi also appeared with Jake Heggie in OPERA America’s Creators in Concert series, previewed Fellow Travelers at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, and soloed in Carmina Burana with the Reno Philharmonic and at the Christ (Crystal) Cathedral. Lattanzi received the 2016 Sullivan Foundation Award, as well as awards from the Jensen Foundation Competition and the Birmingham Opera Competition. Equally at home in standard and new repertoire, Lattanzi has created roles in workshops of operas by Gregory Spears (Fellow Travelers), Jake Heggie (Great Scott), Daniel Catán (Meet John Doe) and Clint Borzoni (The Copper Queen). The Mableton, Georgia, native has studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In addition to two summers at the Merola Opera Program, he has participated in programs at the Brevard Music Center and the Chautauqua Institute Voice Program.

Lauded for her vocal agility and dynamic stage presence, mezzo-soprano Alyssa Martin is quickly garnering attention as a standout young singer. She is currently a first-year Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist at Arizona Opera.

This season she will perform the roles of Mercédès in Carmen, Meg Page in Falstaff and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She also appears as the mezzo soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony and returns to Arizona Opera to sing the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Angelina in La Cenerentola. This summer she returns as an apprentice artist to The Santa Fe Opera, where she will perform Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette. Martin has previously trained as a young artist with Virginia Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera. She has been the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as the Orpheus Vocal Competition, Young Patronesses of the Opera, Opera Guild of Dayton, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale and Utah Festival Opera. Martin completed her studies at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees under the instruction of Patricia Stiles and world-renowned soprano Carol Vaness. On the IU stage, she performed Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, the title role of Cendrillon, Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Prinz Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. She is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Pianist and vocal coach Cody Martin is in his second season as a Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist at Arizona Opera, working on the music staff for productions of Rusalka, Madama Butterfly, Riders of the Purple Sage (world

premiere) and La Cenerentola. Last season, he joined Des Moines Metro Opera to coach members of the Apprentice Artist Program and work on productions of Falstaff and Orphée et Eurydice. In the 2014–2015 season, he also worked with Virginia Opera as an Emerging Artist Apprentice Coach, acting as the music director for two touring educational outreach shows and the cover pianist for La traviata. Martin was on the music staff of the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center for three seasons, during which time he was assistant conductor and coach for their productions of The Ballad of Baby Doe, Così fan tutte, Rigoletto, Sweeney Todd, Don Giovanni and Albert Herring. An avid proponent of new opera, Martin has worked on multiple premieres, including a 2014 workshop of Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s Sister Carrie, the world premiere of Michael Ching’s Speed Dating Tonight! at Brevard Music Center, and the regional premiere of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs at Florida State University. He holds degrees from Murray State University and Florida State University, where his teachers included Valerie Trujillo and Stephen Brown for piano and Douglas Fisher for conducting.

Born and raised in Illinois, bass-baritone Zachary Owen has appeared with such companies as Cincinnati Opera, Kentucky Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Central City Opera, Opera North, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

and Opera Santa Barbara. He has performed the roles of Ashby in La fanciulla del West, Don Fernando in Fidelio, Matouš in The Kiss, the title role in The Marriage of Figaro, Haly in L’italiana in Algeri, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Frank Maurrant in Street Scene, the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, the Speaker in The Magic Flute, Spencer Coyle in Owen Wingrave and the title role in Don Pasquale. An advocate for new music, he participated in a composer’s workshop at Cincinnati Opera, working alongside Jake Heggie, Terrence McNally and Jack O’Brien to develop two characters for Great Scott. Last season, Owen returned to Opera Santa Barbara for his leading-role debut as Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, sang Francis Nurse in The Crucible at The Glimmerglass Festival and performed as a member of the Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio at Arizona Opera. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grace Keagy Award at the Lotte Lenya Competition. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

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ABOUT ARIZONA OPERA

Arizona Opera, originally the Tucson Opera Company, was founded in 1971 by a dedicated group of opera enthusiasts. Its inaugural season featured two performances of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville in Tucson, and by the 1976–1977 season, the company was performing complete seasons in both Tucson and Phoenix. Since its inaugural year, Arizona Opera has produced over 170 fully staged operas and concerts. The company’s artistic history is rich with a blend of opera’s traditional repertoire, featuring baroque, bel canto and verismo works; turn-of-the-century masterpieces; operettas; and American operas.

ABOUT THE MARION ROOSE PULLIN ARIZONA OPERA STUDIO

Now in its 10th season, the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio helps bridge the gap between academic studies and a professional career. Studio Artists are in residence all season, performing both on our mainstage and throughout Arizona, while receiving well-rounded, personalized instruction designed to propel each artist to the next level. Alumni of the program have gone on to perform with companies around the world, including San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, English National Opera, Seattle Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival and The Santa Fe Opera.

STAFF

Joseph Specter, General Director Zackery Hayhurst, Director of Artistic Administration Allen Perriello, Head of Music and Director, Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio Lauren Dickerson, Company Manager

ARIZONA OPERA WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND SPECIAL THANKS TO

Marion Roose Pullin, whose continued and sustaining support reflects an unwavering dedication to the emerging talent of today and the stars of tomorrow.

Studio Artist sponsors A.J. Escoruela, Norman C. and Donna L. Harbert, Karen Fruen, Dan A. Klingenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Tancer, Don Williams, Dr. Judith G. Wolf, and Anonymous.

Joshua Borths, Arizona Opera’s director of education and community engagement, and resident stage director, for staging this concert.

Onstage at the Opera Center is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by grants from the Amphion Foundation and NYC & Company Foundation.

COMING UP NEXT AT THE NATIONAL OPERA CENTER:

CONVERSATIONS | RENÉE FLEMING, SOPRANO — SOLD-OUT (WAITLIST AVAILABLE)

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

Soprano Renée Fleming, one of the most beloved and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, will discuss her remarkable career with OPERA America President/CEO Marc A. Scorca. Known as “the people’s diva,” Fleming continues to grace the world’s greatest stages, now extending her reach to include other musical forms and media.

This event will also be streamed online at operaamerica.org/Live.

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ABOUT THE EMERGING ARTIST RECITAL SERIES

These recitals reflect the joint efforts of OPERA America and its member companies to identify and nurture the careers of the most promising young artists. Each recital hosts emerging singers and pianists at the National Opera Center’s Marc A. Scorca Hall. The concerts are streamed live to opera companies around the world, introducing these artists to a broad community of producers and other casting professionals who can help advance their careers, as well as to a worldwide public interested in tracking the accomplishments of aspiring artists who have achieved success through competitions and young artist programs. For more information about OPERA America’s Emerging Artist Recital Series, please contact Laura Lee Everett, director of artistic services, at LEverett@operaamerica.org.