Faculty
BIOS Summer Opera Intensive 2009
In 1991, Brian Asawa’s career was launched when he became the
first countertenor to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Since 1993 he has appeared in opera houses world wide singing signature rules
such as Tolomeo for Seattle Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Bordeaux Opera, Opera
Australia, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opera at Palais
Garnier. Future engagements include Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare
at Netherlands Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Theatre de al Monnaie, Brussels.
Fyodor in Boris Gudonov in the highly acclaimed Willy Decker production
for Netherlands Opera and Prince Gogo in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre for
Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels.
Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle for having a voice of
“extraordinary passion and power” and her “grand but emotionally transparent”
characterizations, Susana Poretsky’s 2006-2007 season includes
her first performances of Margaret in San Diego Opera’s Wozzeck,where she will
return in coming seasons as Fenena in Nabucco. She also rejoined the
New York City Ballet as soloist in Alexei Ratmansky’s Diamond Project,
a work she premiered in the 2005-06 season and returns to the Metropolitan Opera
for Die Ägyptische Helena. Also active on the concert
stage, Ms. Poretsky has appeared with every major orchestra in Israel,
performing most frequently with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, under the
baton of Zubin Mehta. She was invited to sing Leonard Bernstein’s Jeremiah
Symphony for the composer and conductor’s 75th Anniversary and sang the same
piece for her New York Philharmonic debut under the baton of Kurt Masur as well
as L'Orchestre de Paris. She also recently sang Mozart's Requiem
at the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, Mozart's Mass in c-minor,
and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in
Genova, Verdi's Requiem at the Liguria Festival, and
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Golda Meir Performing Center
in Tel-Aviv.
Composer, pianist and arts educator Nicolas Reveles is a San
Diego County native. He holds a doctorate in piano from the Manhattan
School of Music in New York and spent five seasons as the pianist for Mikhail
Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project. A former professor of music
at the University of San Diego, Dr. Reveles is currently the Geisel Director of
Education and Outreach for San Diego Opera and is the host of "OperaTalk with
Nick Reveles" on UCSD-TV. His latest composition project is a
collaboration with librettist Jack Montgomery on an operatic version of
Sleeping Beauty
Recent directing engagements for Cynthia Stokes
include Cyrano for Michigan Opera Theatre and Opera Company of
Philadelphia, Margaret Garner at Opera Carolina and Cincinnati Opera,
Il trovatore at The Florentine Opera as well as new commissions for Los
Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera and San Diego Opera. An accomplished stage
director, her theatrical credits include: San Diego Repertory Theatre, the
Piccolo Spoleto Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and
New York Theatre Workshop. Ms. Stokes studied with the late Wesley Balk at The
Minnesota Opera’s New Music Theatre Ensemble. Upcoming projects include:
Marriage of Figaro at Dallas Opera, Madama Butterfly at Opera Company of Philadelphia
and Romeo et Juliette at San Diego Opera.
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