V yagE 104th SEASON
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Dr. Michael Miles, Music Director
Amahl
Night Visitors and the
November 2, 2023 - 7:30 p.m. and November 5, 2023 - 2 p.m. The Thomas V. Fraschillo Stage at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center
Welcome! We are thrilled to have you here. This production of Amahl and the Night Visitors marks the opening of the Southern Opera and Musical Theatre Company’s 75th season! It seems fitting to mark this anniversary with one of the most popular and beloved of American operas. Through all of these decades of the SOMTC’s development, growth, and change, one thing has remained the same: our love of and need for you, our audience. Opera, the ultimate combination of all the arts, does not and cannot exist without you. Your attendance, laughter, tears, cheers, and applause form a crucial part of creating this unique art form. Without you, it’s only a rehearsal. The SOMTC exists as an educational vehicle for students of many disciplines. Working together to produce what Wagner called a “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or “total work of art,” provides growth opportunities for our singers, orchestral players, dancers, tech designers, etc., that cannot be found anywhere else. And whether you realize it or not, your attendance today constitutes a crucial part in their educational experience. By being here, you are helping our students grow into better artists and professionals. So, thank you again for coming! We hope you enjoy the performance and that you will return again and again to support another 75 of opera and musical theater at Southern Miss! SMTTT! -Dr. Jonathan Yarrington
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MUSIC present
Amahl NightVisitors and the
November 2, 2023, 7:30 p.m. November 5, 2023, 2 p.m.
The Thomas V. Fraschillo Stage at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center
LIBRETTIST GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
COMPOSER GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
SET and LIGHTING DESIGN MIKE LOPINTO SOUND and LIGHT STAGETEC
SET CONSTRUCTION WES HANSON
LIGHTING DESIGN MIKE LOPINTO
COSTUME, HAIR, MAKEUP and PROPS JENIFER KNUE PRODUCTION MANAGER MIKE LOPINTO
STAGE MANAGER MAHANNOP PANASARATOOL
CHOIR MASTER DEREK MELER CHOREOGRAPHER MEG BROOKER
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MAHANNOP PANASARATOOL
MUSIC DIRECTOR COLLIN MCKENZIE DIRECTOR JONATHAN YARRINGTON This program presented in part by a generous grant from Partners for the Arts
C ast and C rew Members
November 2, 2023 - 7:30 p.m.
Kassidy Chandler as The Mother Rachel Walley as Amahl Hutson Rollins as King Kaspar Joseph Jones as King Melchior Bowen Feng as King Balthazar Jordan Tyrese Hardy as The Page
November 5, 2023 - 2 p.m.
Kassidy Chandler as The Mother Erin Smith as Amahl Kamron Glover as King Kaspar Joseph Jones as King Melchior Bowen Feng as King Balthazar Jordan Tyrese Hardy as The Page
SHEPHERDS
Donald Aaron, Bayleigh Batchelor, Kahia Buckley, Mary Carol Dassau, Logan Graham, Sadie Graham, Ashlynn Hamilton, Kaelyn Hunter, Jasmine McGaughy, Derek Meler, Cameron Robinson, Hutson Rollins, and Tara Piggott DANCERS
Meg Brooker, Artistic Director: Duncan Dance South, Aaron Allen, and Kadie Cooper Cover for The Mother, Erin Smith COSTUMES
SET/SET DRESSING
Kahia Buckley - Costume Lead Dani Gray Rachel Walley Erin Smith Mary Carol Dassau
Kamron Glover - Set Lead Bowen Feng Joseph Jones Bayleigh Batchelor Jordan Tyrese
PROPS
SUPERTITLES
Tara Piggott - Props Lead Hutson Rollins Jasmine McGaughy Kassidy Chandler
Lexi Hannah PUBLICITY
Mahannop Panasaratool Kassidy Chandler
About the opera Looking back from our vantage point in 2023, it seems almost inevitable that Gian Carlo Menotti would make his career composing operas. He wrote his first opera before he turned 11; by the time he entered the Milan Conservatory at 13, he had written another. By the end of his career, he had written 27 and had forever changed and elevated the American operatic landscape. His compositional output was not limited to operas, but included ballets, choral works, chamber music, cantatas, and one symphony. Like Wagner, Menotti wrote his own libretti. His poetry and prose demonstrate his command of English, despite Italian being his first language. Menotti's biggest early breakthrough came with Amelia Goes to the Ball (1937), an opera that led to NBC Radio commissioning him to write another work that furthered his fame and reputation, The Old Man and the Thief (1939). After a few other successful works, Menotti wrote his most highly regarded piece, the full-length opera, The Consul (1950), which won him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes in Music. Innovatively, it ran not in an opera house, but in the Ethel Barrymore theater on Broadway, running for more than 250 performances. Several of Menotti’s operas would run on Broadway, a feat that seems almost unthinkable today. Following on the heels of the success of The Consul, another invitation came from the National Broadcasting Company, this time to write the first opera specifically for broadcast television to be premiered on Christmas Eve, 1951. Menotti found inspiration for his Christmas opera - a story about a young disabled boy and his mother, who are visited by the three Wise Men - in Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych, “The Adoration of the Magi,” which hung in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given only a short time to write the libretto and music, Menotti fell behind and needed help orchestrating the piece. He brought in his colleague and partner, Samuel Barber, who completed the orchestration just in time for the premiere. Despite being under-rehearsed, the Christmas Eve performance was a success. The great conductor Arturo Toscanini told Menotti after the dress rehearsal, “This is the best you’ve ever done.” Given the fact that Amahl and the Night Visitors has become one of the mostperformed operas in English, it appears that Toscanini was right.
Symphony Orchestra THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
VIOLIN 1
Alexander Ilchev, principal Adele Paltin Icaro Santana VIOLIN 2
Nohelia Zambrano Angelina Sidiropoulou Victor Amaut VIOLA
FLUTE
Lauren Johnson OBOE
Darbi George, principal Josh Strobel CLARINET
Eli Anderson BASSOON
Renata Andrade Christian Avila
Brandon Woodie
CELLO
Anna Zurawski
Brian Lorett Evelin Lopez BASS
Daniel Magalhaes Manuel Jara Ramirez
HORN
TRUMPET
Kyle Matthees TIMPANI
Christian Pyatt PERCUSSION
Malachi Collins
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STRINGS Dr. Borislava Iltcheva, violin Dr. Hsiaopei Lee, viola Dr. Alexander Russakovsky, cello Dr. Marcos Machado, bass Dr. Nicholas Ciraldo, guitar WOODWINDS Dr. Danilo Mezzadri, flute Dr. Galit Kaunitz, oboe Dr. Jackie McIlwain, clarinet Dr. Kim Woolly, bassoon Dr. Dannel Espinoza, saxophone BRASS Dr. Rob Detjen, horn Dr. Tim Tesh, trumpet Dr. Ben McIlwain, trombone Dr. Richard Perry, tuba PERCUSSION Dr. John Wooton, percussion PIANO Dr. Michael Bunchman, piano Dr. Ellen Elder, piano Dr. Hongzuo Guo, staff pianist Dr. Elizabeth Moak, piano Dr. Zhaolei Xie, staff pianist ORCHESTRAL ACTIVITIES Dr. Michael Miles CHORAL ACTIVITIES Dr. Gregory Fuller Dr. Jonathan Kilgore VOICE Dr. Kimberley Davis Dr. Taylor Hightower Dr. Meredith Johnson Dr. Jonathan Yarrington MUSIC EDUCATION Dr. Ashley Allen Dr. Melody Causby Dr. Ian Cicco Stacey Miles
UNIVERSITY BANDS Dr. Catherine Rand Dr. Travis Higa Dr. Cody Edgerton JAZZ STUDIES Larry Panella MUSIC HISTORY Dr. Barbara Dietlinger Dr. Edward Hafer Dr. Joseph Jones MUSIC THEORY Dr. Danny Beard Dr. Joseph Brumbeloe Dr. Douglas Rust DIRECTOR Dr. Colin McKenzie ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS Dr. Joseph Jones Dr. Timothy Tesh ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR Laurie Rinko FINANCIAL MANAGER Belinda Taft ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT COORDINATOR Lauren Gerhart GRADUATE COORDINATOR Melody Causby UNDERGRADUATE COORDINATOR Dr. Jonathan Kilgore PR/MARKETING AND EVENT COORDINATOR Dr. Mike Lopinto PIANO TECHNICIAN Carlos Boza
About the Artists From Laurel, MS, Kassidy Chandler is currently in her first year of her Master’s in Vocal Performance with Dr. J Taylor Hightower. She graduated from USM in 2022 with her BME in Choral Music Education. She has been very active in her time at USM over the years, participating heavily in ensembles such as The Southern Opera and Musical Theatre Company, The Southern Chorale, and Spirit of Southern. Consistently performing in both opera and musical theatre, she has also taken part in several productions outside of Southern Miss with groups such as Hub City Players and Opera Mississippi. Some of her former distinguished roles include Dorabella (Cosi fan Tutte), Mrs. Potts (Beauty and the Beast), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), and Tracy Turnblad (Hairspray). Kassidy is very excited to be returning to the Mannoni stage in this fantastic production! Erin Smith, from Collierville, Tennessee, is a senior at The University of Southern Mississippi pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Voice. Though this is her first opera performance with USM, Erin had the opportunity to travel to Germany in July 2023 with her voice professor Dr. Meredith Johnson, where Erin performed in opera scenes, Lieder concerts, and aria competitions. Roles in Germany included Sister Sophia in “The Sound of Music” and Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier”. Erin is so excited to perform as Amahl in “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and can’t wait to see where the future takes her! From Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Rachel Walley is in her sophomore year at The University of Soutehrn Mississippi, getting her Bachelors in Choral Music Education under her voice teacher, Dr. Meredith Johnson. Rachel is also a member of Southern Chorale. While this is Rachel’s first opera, she was in the USM cast of Guys and Dolls and many other musicals in her high school, PCS. Rachel is thrilled to be a part of her first opera and continue to pursue performing at USM! Born in Warner Robins, Ga., tenor, Kamron Glover has performed various operatic roles such as Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi, Ruggero in La Rondine, Sam Kaplan in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, Willie Stroker in the US premier of Choir Practice by Stephen Chatman, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Mr. Glover earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Valdosta State University and his master’s degree in Vocal Performance from Georgia Southern University. This summer he traveled as a young artist to the Kansas City Vocal Arts Intensive on a full scholarship where he worked with faculty from the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory and accomplished baritone Weston Hurt. Kamron is currently enrolled at The University of Southern Mississippi where he is pursuing his Doctoral degree in Vocal Performance and is a Graduate Teaching Assistant; studying under Dr. Jonathan Yarrington.
Hutson Rollins is a performer from Gulfport, Mississippi and is currently working on his bachelor of arts in music at The University of Southern Mississippi. He has been in many shows including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Prince), Hairspray (Link Larkin), War of the Worlds (Stranger), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander), Peter and the Starcatcher (Peter), and Rent (Roger). From Gulfport, Miss., Rollins previously sang with the Gulfport High School Choir and Madrigal group. He is a composer who writes for choir, piano, and string chamber groups. He sings with the Southern Chorale under the direction of Dr. Gregory Fuller and studies voice with Dr. Meredith Johnson. Rollins has taught and conducted two of his many pieces, performed by the Gulfport High School Choir. He hopes to one day teach choir groups at a collegiate level and continue to compose. Joseph Jones is a junior vocal performance/music education major at The University of Southern Mississippi. Hailing from Gulfport, MS, Jones studies voice with Dr.Kimberly Davis. He has performed with the Gulfport High School Madrigals and Southern Miss Concert Choir. Jones has also played roles in 32 musical theater productions, and most recently performed in The Hub City Players realization of Beauty and the Beast. He is excited to have his opera debut in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Southern Opera and Musical Theater. Jones plans to perform musical theater and opera professionally. Originally from China, baritone Bowen Feng attended Northern State University, SD on a music scholarships from 2017-19. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in vocal performance from Bridgewater State University, MA in 2021. He has studied classical singing with Maryte Bizinkauskas and performed operas including Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart, La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore. He has appeard in Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, The Sound of Music, and Guys and Dolls. He was also a member of choir/chorale at NSU and BSU. Feng worked at a radio station as a full-time technician of transmitters and a parttime personal trainer before his serious vocal training in America. Currently, he sings at churches in the Hattiesburg area and maintains a small private voice studio. He is a Master of Music in vocal performance student at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he studies with Dr. Kimberley Davis. Tyrese Hardy is a Sophomore Music Education from Laurel, Mississippi. He intends to go on to study choral conducting, in order to one day establish his own choral program . He is studying on the Hattiesburg campus of The University of Southern Mississippi under the tutelage of Dr. Jonathan Kilgore and Mr. Kameron Glover. He would like to write the script and compose the score for his own original broadway musical, but his more immediate goal is to gain performing experience and be a good teacher to his future ensemble.
Dr. Jonathan Yarrington, a native of Idaho Falls, ID, is Associate Professor of Voice at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he has taught voice, voice pedagogy, and directs the operas. Prior to joining the faculty at USM, Dr. Yarrington was a member of The Dallas Opera Studio from 2011- 2014, singing nearly one hundred performances in the title roles of their education and outreach productions of Doctor Miracle and Jack and the Beanstalk. In 2012 he made his mainstage debut with The Dallas Opera as The Messenger in Aida. Mr. Yarrington has sung more than fifteen leading roles with UNT Opera, UNL Opera, and BYU Opera, including Jeník (Zápisník zmizelého) Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), William Marshall (Regina), Jeník (Prodana nevesta) Stage Manager (Our Town), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Herman (The Most HappyFella), Don Ramiro (Cinderella), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Marco Palmieri (The Gondoliers), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Nanki Pooh (The Mikado), and Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi). He has appeared in concert with The Bluefire Chamber Players, Blue Lake Opera,The Blacksburg Master Chorale, Crescent Chamber Artists, The Choral Pickup, The Rapides Symphony Orchestra, The Plano Civic Chorus, The Dallas Chamber Orchestra, The Fort Worth Baroque Society, The Texas Camerata, The South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and The Utah Festival Opera Company. An active recitalist and concert performer, he has commissioned and performed new music for tenor and oboe, and he specializes in German and Czech art song. Dr. Yarrington holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from The University of North Texas, where he studied with Dr. Stephen F. Austin. He is a former student of retired Metropolitan Opera mezzosoprano Ariel Bybee, and he won the Nebraska District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2005. Dr. Colin McKenzie is an educator, conductor, and music administrator, currently serving as Director of the School of Music and Conductor of the Symphonic Winds at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. He has also stepped into the role as music director for the Southern Opera and Musical Theater Company as has been necessary. An avid conductor, McKenzie has conducted bands and orchestras throughout the country and around the world. Additionally, he has worked with choruses and vocalists throughout his career, feeling equally at home in front of the orchestra and opera pit as he is with bands. Before moving into an administrative role at The University of Southern Mississippi, McKenzie served as Associate Director of Bands, Associate Professor of Music, and Director of the Pride of Mississippi at the same institution. He conducted the Symphonic Winds, administered all facets of the comprehensive athletic band program, taught course work in conducting, and assisted in student teacher preparation and observation. Prior to his appointment at Southern Miss, Dr. McKenzie served as Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at Georgia Southern University. At Georgia Southern, he directed and administered all facets of the Southern Pride Marching Band and Hoop Troop Athletic Bands. He also served as conductor of the Georgia Southern University Wind Symphony, founding conductor of the University Band, and taught graduate conducting and marching band techniques within the
Department of Music. At Georgia Southern, McKenzie was on the faculty at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he was assistant director and, later, acting director of the Golden Wave Band, conducted the concert band, co-conducted the symphonic band, and taught undergraduate courses in music education and conducting. In addition to his duties within the University Bands, McKenzie also served as Associate Conductor of the Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Dr. McKenzie holds the Bachelor in Music Education from Valdosta State University, the Master of Music in Conducting from Baylor University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from Michigan State University. His primary conducting teachers are Dr. Kevin Sedatole and Dr. Joe Brashier. His professional affiliations include the College Band Directors National Association, the Mississippi Bandmasters Association, honorary membership in Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi, and membership in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Meg Brooker, Director, School of Performing and Visual Arts, USM, and Artistic Director, Duncan Dance South, is a direct-lineage Duncan dancer with a twenty-year performance history spanning the United States, Russia, Greece, Ukraine, Italy, and England. In the Southeast, Meg’s work has been produced by the Hunter Museum of American Art and the Nashville Parthenon. Meg has presented scholarship for Society of Dance History Scholars, Congress on Research in Dance, Dance Studies Association, National Dance Educators Organization, and Women in Dance Leadership. She recently made her Italian television debut dancing alongside actress Sonia Bergamasco in Io e Lei: Isadora Duncan (Season 2, Episode 5, Sky Arte). Derek Meler, a captivating musician, conductor, and educator from Nashville, Tennessee, is dedicated to collaborative music-making as both a soloist and choral artist. He’s collaborated with acclaimed musicians like Stephen Schwartz, Chris Young, Wayne Haun, and Skip Ewing. His impressive vocal talent has graced renowned ensembles, including the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, Opera Naples and Opera Mississippi. As a skilled choral conductor, Derek directs the Stamps-Baxter School of Music, preserving shapednote gospel music. He has most recently prepared choruses at the University of Southern Mississippi to perform Verdi’s Requiem and Villa Lobos’s Choros No. 10. He’s currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he conducts the University Singers and is assistant conductor of the Hattiesburg Choral Union. Derek’s musical journey is a testament to his boundless commitment to the art of music, forging connections, and sharing the transformative power of music with people from all walks of life.
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