Jezibaba/Foreign Princess in Rusalka: A Mermaid’s Tale

Little Opera of the North

Fall 2024 and Winter 2025
Elementary Schools throughout the Arrowhead Region

Opera for the Young’s Adaptation of Rusalka
Music by Antonín Dvořák
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
Music adapted by Jeffrey Sykes
Original libretto by Diane Garton Edie

Georgia will sing Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana with Lyric Opera of the North.

Conducted by Maria Sensi Sellner

Stage direction by Marni Raab

Marshall Performing Arts Center
1215 Ordean Court
Duluth, MN 55812

Georgia will sing the role of Margaret Johnson in Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza.

OSB Premiere
Premiered 2005 on Broadway
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel; Book by Craig Lucas

Stage direction by Layna Chianakas

Conducted by OSB Principal Pianist and Director of the Chrisman Studio, Tim Accurso

Center Stage Theater
751 Paseo Nuevo
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, The Light in the Piazza tells the story of Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman and her daughter Clara, who falls in love with a young Italian man during a vacation in Italy. The show opened on Broadway in 2005 and ran for 504 performances. With a sophisticated score that lends itself to operatic voices, the Chicago Tribune hailed it as “the most soul-satisfying score written for Broadway so far this century”, The Light in the Piazza soon entered the repertoire of opera companies across the country.

This production will feature current and past members of our Chrisman Studio Artist Program, which is named in recognition of the support of Roger and Sarah Chrisman. Thanks to the recent expansion of the Studio Program, Opera Santa Barbara selected a studio showcase that highlighted the growth and talent of our studio artists. Husband-and-wife singers and CSA alumni, Matthew Greenblatt and Brooklyn Snow, will star in the March 23 and March 25 performances as Clara Johnson and Fabrizio Naccarelli. Current Studio Artists Ariana Horner Sutherland and Kyle Rudolf will portray the young couple on March 24 and 26. Singing the roles of the mothers, Margaret Johnson and Signora Naccarelli will be mezzo sopranos Christina Pezzarossi and Georgia Jacobson, with Signor Naccarelli sung by Matthew Peterson and Elijah Cineas. Omar Rodriguez will sing the role of Fabrizio’s brother, Giuseppe, and his wife Franca will be portrayed by long time OSB chorus member, Adrien Roberts, marking her 22nd production with Opera Santa Barbara. The production will be directed by Layna Chianakas, director of last season’s production of Speed Dating Tonight and the mainstage production of Tosca, and will be accompanied by members of the Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra under the direction of OSB Principal Pianist and Director of the Chrisman Studio, Tim Accurso.

Georgia will sing the role of Tisbe in La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini

Kentucky Opera
February 24 and 26
Brown Theatre

Bubbly, melodic, and hilarious.

Rossini’s La Cenerentola is the classic rags-to-riches tale with bubbly operatic melodies, a spunky heroine, and a story that shows us once again that love conquers all. In this timeless comedy, Cinderella’s journey from servant’s quarter to happily ever after is fraught with confusion and chaos as she defies her conniving stepfather and mean girl stepsisters to win the heart of her Prince.

Georgia will sing the role of Maggie in David Conte’s The Gift of the Magi

A chamber opera in one act
Music by David Conte
Libretto by Nicholas Giardini
Based on the Short Story by O. Henry
December 15, 16, 18, 20, 22
Opera Center

Love, sacrifice, and family.

Presented at the Opera Center, this heartwarming holiday classic brings you close to the action. Jim and Della cannot afford to buy each other presents for Christmas, so they pawn their most prized possessions to purchase gifts for each other. But their surprises go awry in this adaptation of O. Henry’s classic story, delivered with beautiful melodies sung in English.

Georgia will sing the role of Hannah After in the opera As One with Lyric Opera of the North.

Music & concept by Laura Kaminsky • Libretto by Mark Campbell & Kimberly Reed

Conducted by Alexis Enyart

Stage direction by Amy Hutchinson

By arrangement with Bill Holab Music • Commissioned and developed by American Opera Projects (AOP)

As One film direction and film by Kimberly Reed, commissioned by AOP. As One premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music, September 2014, made possible in part with funding from BAM/DeVos Institute of Arts Management at Kennedy Center Professional Development PRogram, OPERA America’s Opera Discovery Grants for Female Composers Program, supported by Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, Purchase College Development Fund, Tanner Fund at Utah State University, Jeremy T. Smith Fund, Dr. Coco Lazaroff, Lynn Loacker, Judith O. Rubin, and many generous individuals.

75 minutes. Two singers and a string quartet. One person’s poignant and compelling journey to wholeness. As One tells the story of a trans woman named Hannah and her pilgrimage towards self-discovery and acceptance. What might our world be like if we each dared to authentically embody who we are?

Lyric Opera of the North

Duluth, Minnesota

Hermia (cover) in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Countertenor John Holiday and soprano Sydney Mancasola lead the cast in an all-new production led by Maestra Elizabeth Askren, directed by Chas Rader-Shieber, featuring scenic and costume design by Jacob A. Climer.

Virginia Woolf in a workshop of Kevin Puts and Gregory Pierce’s The Hours

Dates TBD

Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Corbett Auditorium

Cincinnati, OH

290 CCM Blvd, Cincinnati OH 45221

Orfeo (cover) in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Kentucky Opera

Brown Theatre

Louisville, Kentucky

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Orfeo is a timeless story of sacrificial love and a longing for second chances. Kentucky Opera will produce two performances of this poignant retelling of this ancient myth at the Brown Theatre on February 11 and 13, 2022 in collaboration with Louisville Ballet and Bourbon Baroque. Maestro Judith Yan conducts her Kentucky Opera debut, and Kelly Kitchens (The Marriage of Figaro, 2020) returns as stage director.