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Guild
News
10.31.2004
Congratulations: ...To our member and past president, Valentino
DeVito, on his honor this past July as Man of Year bestowed by the
Youngstown Italian Festival. If you know Val at all, you will know
why his hard work and dedication were honored.
Congratulations: ...To
former YSU vocal student Amanda Beagle on her win as
Miss Ohio and for her very diligent try at Miss America. Amanda
brought great pride to her family, community, and the State of Ohio. Of
course, Amanda’s talent portion was a show of her beautiful
voice.
Cavalleria Rusticana: Following
the success of last year’s Il Trovatore, The Valley
Lyrical presented Mascagni’s masterpiece, Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic
Chivalry)... (More
Information...)
Opera can be fun! A cultural resource for the classroom
is being assembled and will be available for use by teachers in
the area schools. This “Cultural
Suitcase” will contain CDs with opera highlights... (More
Information...)
I Pagliacci: According
to National Public Radio, opera is on the rise in our nation
with new regional companies being created on a regular basis. The
newly-formed Opera Western Reserve is one of the most recent
to be included in those ranks... (More
Information...)
Saying
Goodbye: The
Youngstown Opera Guild regrets having to inform its membership
of the "retirement" of Valentino DeVito as Director of
Excursions. Val
has done a wonderful job of arranging for the Guild to travel to Pittsburgh
and Cleveland to see many operas over the years. For this; we
are eternally grateful. Val has asked that we find someone else
to carry on the duties of this time-consuming project.
David Venerose
has agreed to begin to take on this responsibility with the next
opera which should be sometime around February, 2005. We
will have more information on location and ticket prices in the future.
Again, we wish to thank Val for all of his hard work.
06.18.2004
Upcoming
Bus Trips: Our upcoming bus trip will be to see Cosi
fan tutte, performed by Lyric Opera Cleveland on August
1st, 2004... (More
Information...)
11.26.2003
Upcoming
Bus Trips: We will be travelling to see Bizet's Carmen on April
4, 2004 at Pittsburgh Opera, and Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffman" on
April 24, 2004 at Cleveland Opera.
10.29.2003
Mailing
List Update: The Opera Guild needs your help. You know the benefits
of belonging to the Guild, and we need you to tell your friends what
a great organization it is... (More Information...)
Just
an update on some of our former students:
Troy Ayers, tenor (YSU 2000), will be singing the role of “Don
Ottavio” with the Amarillo Opera Company. We also saw Troy as
the Marquis in La Traviata.
Megan Elizabeth Morris, a current student at YSU sang the role of
“Azucena” in “Il Trovatore” with the Valley
Lyric Opera Company and also had the role of Flora in La Traviata.
Amanda Beagle (YSU 2003) won the talent portion of the Miss Ohio
competition this year.
Christopher Hutton, baritone (YSU 1997) is in Boston to do two
roles with the Boston Lyric Opera Company- “Merullo” in
Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and “Sciarrone”, in
Puccini’s “Tosca”.
The
Dana Opera Workshop presented the Children’s Opera “Little
Red Riding Hood” and Act One of Menotti’s “The Medium”
on November 2nd and 3rd in the Bliss Recital Hall at 8 pm.
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