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THE COMPANY Peter Dean Beck (Set and Lighting Design) 20 seasons with CU Opera. Selected past productions: LaTraviata, Don Giovanni, Candide, Carousel, Dead Man Walking, Susannah, West Side Story, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel, The Elixir of Love. Other professional credits: Hawaii Opera Theatre, Arizona Opera, Atlanta Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre, Edmonton Opera Virginia Opera, Chautauqua Opera (NY), Opera Hong Kong, Florda State Opera. Nicholas Carthy (Music Director/Conductor), in his eighth season with CU Opera, studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and made his conducting debut at the Landestheater in Le nozze di Figaro. He also served as musical assistant to Bernard Haitink and Sir Georg Solti at the Salzburg Festival. Mr. Carthy made his Italian conducting debut with the Camarata Accademiz of Salzburg and since then has conducted opera productions in Vienna, Salzburg, Oslo, Stockholm, Winterthur, Milan, Rome, Naples, Bonn, Eugene, and Tel Aviv. He has conducted orchestras including Royal Philharmonis Orchestra Stockholm, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Orchestra RAI di Torino, Orchestra San Carlo di Napoli, and the Accademia Filarmonica Roma. As a soughtafter vocal accompanist, he has performed in many of the world’s great halls, including Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bolshoi Theatre, Musikverein Vienna, La Scala, and the Schubertiade in Hohenems. Kimberly Crawford (Dew Fairy) Past roles with CU Opera: Chorus (La Bohème, The Rake’s Progress, Suor Angelica, Le Nozze di Figaro, Carousel, Don Giovanni). Other roles: Venere (La incoronazione di Poppea) with Manhattan School of Music, Mimi Marquez (RENT) and Sharon Graham (Master Class), CU Department of Theater and Dance. Honors and awards: CU Undergraduate Development Award 2013, National Anthem—Leeds School of Business Commencement 2012, CU Diverse Music Alliance Scholarship 2012. Kimberly is a student of Patrick Mason. Kristyn Christman-McCarty (The Witch) Past roles with CU Opera: Jo (Little Women), Dame Quickly (Falstaff), cover Mother Goose (The Rake’s Progress), Ms. Which (A Wrinkle in Time) with CU NOW. Past roles include The Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Olga Olsen (Street Scene), Susanna Walcott (The Crucible) with the Hillman Opera Copany. She received BME and BM degrees from SUNY Fredonia in 2011. Kristyn is a student of Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson.
Sophia Dove (Sandman) Past roles with CU Opera: cover Elvira (L’Italiana in Algeri). Other roles: Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Taos Opera Institute. Honors and Awards: Finalist, Anderson Competition 2012, Finalist, NATS 2012 and 2013. Sophia is a student of Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson. Ariana Gibbard (Dew Fairy) Past roles with CU Opera: Musetta (La Bohème), Charles Wallace (A Wrinkle in Time) with CU NOW, Sorella Cercatrice (Suor Angelica), Street Singer (Bernstein Mass), Chorus (Le Nozze di Figaro), Chorus (Susannah). Ariana is a student of Jennifer BirdArvidsson. James Held (Peter) Past roles: Sid (Albert Herring) with Seagle Music Colony, Creonte (Medea) with UW OperaMadison, Leporello (Don Giovanni) with Seagle Music Colony. Honors/Awards: Coulter Scholarship Recipient, Seagle Music Colony Guild Scholar, Warzyn-Thorpe Scholarship. James is a student of Patrick Mason. Leigh Holman (Director of Opera Studies) balances her teaching and professional stage directing career in the US and abroad. Holman’s recent engagements include her Stage Direction debuts with Florida Grand Opera in Miami and associate direction debut with Opera Philadelphia. In September, Holman will debut with Opéra de Montréal (Nabucco). She is currently preparing for a production of Side by Side by Sondheim with CU Opera. Since joining the faculty of CU Boulder in 2009, Holman has mounted several highly successful and critically acclaimed seasons. The past season of CU Opera began with a “bold and daring” steampunk concept of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. She concluded the season with heralded productions of Falstaff and Adamo’s Little Women. In recent seasons, Holman has been a guest artist at Stony Brook University and directed a new production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail designed by Peter Dean Beck. With conductor, Michael Christie, she directed a production of Krása’a Brundibár with the Colorado Music Festival and made her debut with the Piccolo Festival Friuli Venezia Giulia (Rossini’s, la cambia di matrimonio) in Northern Italy. As well suited to new operatic works as she is to traditional works, Holman has produced and directed workshops of operas in association with composers including Libby Larsen, Herschel Garfein, Lori Laitman, Robert Aldridge, Daniel Kellogg and Kirke Mechem. As founder of CU NOW (New Opera Workshop), in Boulder, she continues to passionately promote the creation, collaboration and production of new American works.