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• Thursday, November 25, 2021 • On the Edge of the Weekend
Home for the Holidays Opera Edwardsville debuts at Dunham Hall By Jill Moon EDWARDSVILLE — Opera Edwardsville (OE)
now has the distinction of being the first local organization to be invited to debut the Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville Arts and Issues series, with Opera Edwardsville at Dunham Hall.
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The Arts and Issues series has welcomed illustrious speakers and artists, including Maya Angelou, Ken Burns, George Winston, and other impressive artists and speakers and now Opera Edwardsville joins this fine group of talent and creativity. Opera Edwardsville at Dunham Hall is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18. Tickets are on sale now for $50 per person and available at www.operaedwardsville. org/home/december2021 . “I am proud that OE has been asked to perform as part of the SIUE Arts and Issues Series,” said OE’s Chase Hopkins, founder and artistic director. “The university is becom-
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ing more and more of an important partner for OE,” he said. “We have collaborated with the music department to present three student-led productions as part of our Opera for Kids initiative, including ‘Pinocchio’ (2019), ‘The Three Little Pigs’ (2020) and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ (2021).” Additionally, OE has presented masterclasses for SIUE vocal students with Karen Brunssen, a renowned voice professor from Northwestern University and the president of the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS). “But OE is very excited to be performing at the university,” said Hopkins,
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who also is general director of Haymarket Opera Co. in Chicago. “I look forward to bringing the full power of OE’s guest artists in a program of epic operatic highlights and classic holiday favorites to the SIUE Arts and Issues series. “December features a staggering amount of talent,” Hopkins noted. “Truly, these performers join from around the nation between projects at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the list goes on.” “I am grateful to Grant Andree for making this invitation,” he said. “It is a very exciting debut, and
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