Undergraduate Opera Performance
Winter Term is a two week period SFCM sets aside for students to immerse themselves in subjects beyond the standard curriculum. Students can explore a project they've never quite had the time for, get a head start in their career by developing a business or technical skill, finding fun ways to explore the world around us through music, or see what happens when they perform in a way they haven't before!
Performances during winter term are an opportunity for students to showcase what they have worked on during their winter term project.
Program
Final program details will be announced upon availability.
About SFCM鈥檚 Opera and Musical Theatre Program
The SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre program draws exceptionally talented young singers from around the world and provides them with advanced training in vocal style, acting, stage movement, and other essentials of stagecraft. Each year, SFCM produces four fully staged opera and musical theatre productions with full or chamber orchestra. Recent fully staged operas have included L鈥檈lisir d鈥檃more, Don Giovanni, Mansfield Park, Postcard from Morocco, The Rake鈥檚 Progress, Cos矛 fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and former faculty composer Conrad Susa鈥檚 Transformations. SFCM has hosted workshops for in-development opera projects such as Mason Bates鈥檚 The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and Jake Heggie鈥檚 Great Scott.
In addition to fully staged productions, a number of scenes, programs, and other performances with piano accompaniment are presented each year. Opera students also have an opportunity to receive coaching from San Francisco Opera music staff, and to participate in productions tailored for school-age audiences in collaboration with San Francisco Opera鈥檚 Education Department.
SFCM鈥檚 Musical Theatre Workshop provides ensemble experience to singer/actors with an emphasis on American musical theatre, examining one or more musical theatre composers and their works through rehearsals and performance. Recent performances include such works as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, She Loves Me, Company, Little Women, Urinetown, and The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!).
Visiting artists have included Ryan Taylor (General Director, Minnesota Opera), Roy Rallo (Stage Director, San Francisco Opera), David Maier (Fight Director, San Francisco Opera), Barbara Scott (Improvisation Technique), Matt Chapman (Laban Technique), and Jose Luis Moscovich (General Director, West Bay Opera).