The Audition Boot Camp 2021 - LET'S GET BACK TO SINGING
This is very very last minute - I know!!!
I got funding a few days ago to launch a smaller and more intense version of
The Audition Boot Camp
This year Boot Camp will concentrate on getting everyone up and on their feet and singing in front of people every day.
Bel Canto, Verismo and American Aria Master Classes
Voice lessons with Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs and Michael Chioldi
Coachings with Lauren Flanigan and Maestros Recchiuti and Frisco
Cost: $650
for 48 hours of classes, weekly voice lessons and coachings from:
soprano, Lauren Flanigan
soprano, Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs
Maestro Michael Recchiuti
Maestro Cris Frisco
baritone, Michael Chioldi
Dates: Monday July 19th thru Saturday August 14th.
Class times: 6:30 to 9:30pm at Open Jar Studios NYC
More exact details to be posted later this afternoon!!!
ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST BE VACCINATED AND PROVIDE PROOF OF VACCINATION
This is very very last minute - I know!!!
I got funding a few days ago to launch a smaller and more intense version of
The Audition Boot Camp
This year Boot Camp will concentrate on getting everyone up and on their feet and singing in front of people every day.
Bel Canto, Verismo and American Aria Master Classes
Voice lessons with Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs and Michael Chioldi
Coachings with Lauren Flanigan and Maestros Recchiuti and Frisco
Cost: $650
for 48 hours of classes, weekly voice lessons and coachings from:
soprano, Lauren Flanigan
soprano, Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs
Maestro Michael Recchiuti
Maestro Cris Frisco
baritone, Michael Chioldi
Dates: Monday July 19th thru Saturday August 14th.
Class times: 6:30 to 9:30pm at Open Jar Studios NYC
More exact details to be posted later this afternoon!!!
ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST BE VACCINATED AND PROVIDE PROOF OF VACCINATION
Acclaimed soprano Lauren Flanigan is the Founder/Director of Music and Mentoring House, a New York State non-profit that provides affordable programs for opera singers, hands on mentoring and an upscale residency program to students studying in the arts in NYC. She has enjoyed a fourty-year career that included performances at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Glyndebourne, the New York City Opera, ten world premieres, one movie, eleven cd’s, five Live From Lincoln Center telecasts and awards for her commitment to American music and humanitarian work. In 2018 and 2019 she worked on several new operas including Words on the Street by Anna Rabinowitz and Matt Marks, The Wonderlusting of Joseph C by Joan La Barbara, American Athiest by Stefan Weisman and David Cote and Mila:The Great Sorcerer by playwright Jean-Claude van Italie and composer Andrea Clearfield for Beth Morrison Projects PROTOPYPE Festival.
Michael Recchiuti is an international conductor, pianist, and accompanist. Collaborations include operas and projects with Grammy and Tony award winners: Carlo Bergonzi, Giuseppe Giacomini, Placido Domingo, Justino Diaz, Roberta Peters, Adrianna Maliponte, Renee Fleming, Ceclia Gasdia, Ghena Dimitrova, Lauren Flanigan, Fiorenza Cossotto, Dolora Zajick, Chris Merritt, Paolo Gavanelli, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Stuart Neill, and Vanessa Williams. He was head of Music at Gran Teatro La Fenice. As an Asst. Maestro he worked with Nicola Rescigno; Giuseppe Patanè; Placido Domingo; Bruno Bartoletti; and Alfredo Silipigni. As a guest conductor he recently led Tosca for the Charleston Symphony with Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs; and led the Orchestra of St. Lukes, La Rondine at the Long Beach Opera with director Hugo DeAna, Butterfly with the Orlando Opera. Michael’s discography includes "Vaghissima sembianza", the Arie di Stile Antico di Stefano Donaudy with Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs; "Chris Merritt dal Vivo", awarded the Palme d'Or, and chosen as "Best CD of the Year" by Opera News, and CD Classica; "English Art Songs" featuring Britten's the Holy Sonnets of John Donne and Roger Quilter songs, with tenor Paul Austen Kelly; and Alberto Mizrahi's "Voice of a People" a collection of Cantorial Showpieces, Ashkenazic and Sephardic art songs. He and Ms. Blancke-Biggs are preparing a new CD of late romantic songs of Marx, Schoenberg, and others.
Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs is recognized as one of the most exciting sopranos on the international scene today A brilliant interpreter of the most demanding roles in the spinto-drammatico soprano repertory, she recently appeared as Turandot for the Shanghai Opera, and in new productions at both the Theatro Municipal Sao Paolo, and Xian, China. She sang La Fanciulla del West at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, at the Castleton Festival, the Teatro Massimo Palermo under Mo. Bruno Bartoletti, and Florida Grand Opera. She was Tosca with the Charleston Symphony, and with the OFUNAM Mexico City, and Orquesta del Estado de Mexico. She was heard internationally from the Metropolitan Opera as Tosca on a live Sirius Radio broadcast with Marcello Giordani. She sang Norma for the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Strauss’ Elektra in the award winning production at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung for Teatro Massimo Palermo, Salome with the Orchesta Sinfonica Nacional at Bellas Artes, and at Den Norske Opera in Stefan Herheim’s Salzburg production, and The Verdi Requiem with the OSN at Bellas Artes. In previous seasons she sang Lady Macbeth in Verdi's opera Macbeth Montevideo and Santiago Chile, and Abigaille in Nabucco for the Grand Théâtre de Gèneve, which critics hailed as “simply extraordinary…” as well as in Nancy, France, Santiago, Aspendos Turkey and the Teatro Nacional Costa Rica. Hailed as one of the best young Verdi singers by Placido Domingo, she appeared with him at the WNO as Fedora in a gala performance. Her Metropolitan Opera debut was Violetta in the Zeffirelli production of La Traviata, and her Italian debut was as Maria Stuarda at Torino’s Teatro Regio. Throughout her career she has enjoyed singing Leonora in Il Trovatore, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Elena in I Vesperi Siciliani and Elvira in Ernani as well as both Musetta and Mimi in La Boheme and the title roles in the operas Aida, Madama Butterfly and Sour Angelica.
Cris Frisco is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music. He is Director of Music and Director of the Handorf Company Artist Program at Opera Memphis. This season, he conducts Little Womenat Opera Fayetteville, La Boheme at Opera Birmingham, and Pagliacci and The Falling and the Rising at Opera Memphis; and is the music director for the McCarter Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol. He also partners singers in recital in Los Angeles, New York, and Indiana. Currently in development, he is the music director for Anatomiae Occultii’s contemporary dance production of Sweeney Todd. He is the founder and artistic director of The New Voice Project and is Music Director of Opera Fayetteville. www.crisfrisco.com
Acclaimed baritone, Michael Chioldi has performed at nearly every major American opera house, including The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera. Signature roles include Scarpia in Tosca with Hawaii Opera Theater, Ft. Worth Opera, New York City Opera, Toledo Opera, and Spain's Opera de Oviedo; Jochanaan in Salome with Utah Opera, Virginia Opera, and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan; the title role of Macbeth with Michigan Opera Theatre and Palm Beach Opera, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with Washington National Opera, Utah Opera, and New Orleans Opera; and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Washington National Opera and in a nationwide broadcast on the PBS television series Live from Lincoln Center, which received an Emmy award in 2008. Performances in the 2018-2019 season included his role debut as Gerard in Andrea Chenier with Barcelona’s Gran Teatro del Liceu, La Traviata with Washington National Opera and Austin Opera, and Otello with Austin Opera. This season MIchael also returns to the Metropolitan Opera for three exciting covers including Otello, Rigoletto, and Tosca.
Michael Recchiuti is an international conductor, pianist, and accompanist. Collaborations include operas and projects with Grammy and Tony award winners: Carlo Bergonzi, Giuseppe Giacomini, Placido Domingo, Justino Diaz, Roberta Peters, Adrianna Maliponte, Renee Fleming, Ceclia Gasdia, Ghena Dimitrova, Lauren Flanigan, Fiorenza Cossotto, Dolora Zajick, Chris Merritt, Paolo Gavanelli, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Stuart Neill, and Vanessa Williams. He was head of Music at Gran Teatro La Fenice. As an Asst. Maestro he worked with Nicola Rescigno; Giuseppe Patanè; Placido Domingo; Bruno Bartoletti; and Alfredo Silipigni. As a guest conductor he recently led Tosca for the Charleston Symphony with Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs; and led the Orchestra of St. Lukes, La Rondine at the Long Beach Opera with director Hugo DeAna, Butterfly with the Orlando Opera. Michael’s discography includes "Vaghissima sembianza", the Arie di Stile Antico di Stefano Donaudy with Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs; "Chris Merritt dal Vivo", awarded the Palme d'Or, and chosen as "Best CD of the Year" by Opera News, and CD Classica; "English Art Songs" featuring Britten's the Holy Sonnets of John Donne and Roger Quilter songs, with tenor Paul Austen Kelly; and Alberto Mizrahi's "Voice of a People" a collection of Cantorial Showpieces, Ashkenazic and Sephardic art songs. He and Ms. Blancke-Biggs are preparing a new CD of late romantic songs of Marx, Schoenberg, and others.
Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs is recognized as one of the most exciting sopranos on the international scene today A brilliant interpreter of the most demanding roles in the spinto-drammatico soprano repertory, she recently appeared as Turandot for the Shanghai Opera, and in new productions at both the Theatro Municipal Sao Paolo, and Xian, China. She sang La Fanciulla del West at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, at the Castleton Festival, the Teatro Massimo Palermo under Mo. Bruno Bartoletti, and Florida Grand Opera. She was Tosca with the Charleston Symphony, and with the OFUNAM Mexico City, and Orquesta del Estado de Mexico. She was heard internationally from the Metropolitan Opera as Tosca on a live Sirius Radio broadcast with Marcello Giordani. She sang Norma for the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Strauss’ Elektra in the award winning production at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung for Teatro Massimo Palermo, Salome with the Orchesta Sinfonica Nacional at Bellas Artes, and at Den Norske Opera in Stefan Herheim’s Salzburg production, and The Verdi Requiem with the OSN at Bellas Artes. In previous seasons she sang Lady Macbeth in Verdi's opera Macbeth Montevideo and Santiago Chile, and Abigaille in Nabucco for the Grand Théâtre de Gèneve, which critics hailed as “simply extraordinary…” as well as in Nancy, France, Santiago, Aspendos Turkey and the Teatro Nacional Costa Rica. Hailed as one of the best young Verdi singers by Placido Domingo, she appeared with him at the WNO as Fedora in a gala performance. Her Metropolitan Opera debut was Violetta in the Zeffirelli production of La Traviata, and her Italian debut was as Maria Stuarda at Torino’s Teatro Regio. Throughout her career she has enjoyed singing Leonora in Il Trovatore, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Elena in I Vesperi Siciliani and Elvira in Ernani as well as both Musetta and Mimi in La Boheme and the title roles in the operas Aida, Madama Butterfly and Sour Angelica.
Cris Frisco is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music. He is Director of Music and Director of the Handorf Company Artist Program at Opera Memphis. This season, he conducts Little Womenat Opera Fayetteville, La Boheme at Opera Birmingham, and Pagliacci and The Falling and the Rising at Opera Memphis; and is the music director for the McCarter Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol. He also partners singers in recital in Los Angeles, New York, and Indiana. Currently in development, he is the music director for Anatomiae Occultii’s contemporary dance production of Sweeney Todd. He is the founder and artistic director of The New Voice Project and is Music Director of Opera Fayetteville. www.crisfrisco.com
Acclaimed baritone, Michael Chioldi has performed at nearly every major American opera house, including The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera. Signature roles include Scarpia in Tosca with Hawaii Opera Theater, Ft. Worth Opera, New York City Opera, Toledo Opera, and Spain's Opera de Oviedo; Jochanaan in Salome with Utah Opera, Virginia Opera, and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan; the title role of Macbeth with Michigan Opera Theatre and Palm Beach Opera, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with Washington National Opera, Utah Opera, and New Orleans Opera; and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Washington National Opera and in a nationwide broadcast on the PBS television series Live from Lincoln Center, which received an Emmy award in 2008. Performances in the 2018-2019 season included his role debut as Gerard in Andrea Chenier with Barcelona’s Gran Teatro del Liceu, La Traviata with Washington National Opera and Austin Opera, and Otello with Austin Opera. This season MIchael also returns to the Metropolitan Opera for three exciting covers including Otello, Rigoletto, and Tosca.
