Fly Duet from Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers

Feb 9

Opera 1 Comment

To raise money for her graduate school audition tour, my girlfriend Chelsea and the amazing pianist Stephen Damonte, put on a fundraiser recital. I joined her for the Fly Duet from Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers in which Jupiter disguised as a fly (myself) seduces the innocent Eurydice (Chelsea). If you want to help her achieve her goal of going to graduate school, you can donate at her website.

Fly Duet from Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers:

SFSU Opera Gala: Papageno Papagena Duet

Oct 22

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Last Friday I performed the Papageno Papagena Duet in San Francisco State’s Opera Gala. Papagena is sung by my friend Sanja Wetzel and the whole ordeal was staged by Alissa Deeter. Video:

papagena/papageno duet from die zauberflöte from sanjwich on Vimeo.

Opera stuff looking for good home (free)

Apr 1

Music, Opera 3 Comments

Opera LibrettoThe other day I responded to an ad for free opera libretti and magazines on Craigslist. The woman was trying to find a good home for about eight boxes of what turned out to be her deceased friend’s libretti, Opera News, and San Francisco Opera programs.

The libretti are going in to my library (more on that later) but the rest is of little interest to me, as I don’t have the time to go through them. The woman who died was a life long opera fan so these items span a range of dates. I would imagine that the programs especially have some value as collectible items. Let me know if you are interested in rooting through them. They are yours if you want them.

As for the libretti, there were about 41 of them. I got them because, as a singer, they can be VERY helpful in translating arias and entire roles. If you are ever interested in borrowing any of them, I have listed my complete collection after the jump:

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Youtube finally caught me

Dec 25

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On December 7th, at San Francisco State’s Opera Workshop performence, I stood in for a baritone who had broken his leg. The girl who sang Papagena, or perhaps her parents, posted this on Youtube.