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Friday, August 27, 2010 - 8:00 pm La Traviata Danielle Talamantes, Violetta David Sloss, conductor Sung in Italian with English supertitles Verdi's beloved masterpiece overflows with romance, glamor, timeless melody, and a heartrending story. Can a woman with a past change her life? Violetta Valéry, a celebrated Parisian courtesan, falls in love for the first time. She gives up the glamorous world of Paris for a simple life with her beloved Alfredo Germont. But their idyll is brief; pressed by Alfredo's father, a heart-broken Violetta must abandon Alfredo to protect his family from scandal. The lovers are finally reunited a year later, but only as the frail Violetta nears the end of her life. |
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 Danielle Talamantes (Violetta) makes her Fremont Opera debut in La Traviata, after winning first prize in the 2010 Irene Dalis Vocal Competition. In the spring of 2011, she will be covering roles at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On the stage she has appeared as Gretel (Hansel & Gretel), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Micaëla (Carmen), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), and Rosina (The Barber of Seville). She has won numerous awards, including First Prize in the 2008 Concurso de Trujillo, Second Place in the prestigious Liederkranz Competition, and First Prize in the International Lotte Lehman Cybersing and Vocal Arts Society Competitions. In 2007 she appeared in recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, as National Winner of the 2006 National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards. |
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 Benjamin Bunsold (Alfredo) has appeared this season as Beppe (Pagliacci) for Opera Columbus, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at St. Petersburg Opera, and Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) at Opera Idaho. His other roles have included Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, Nemorino in The Elixir of Love, the Duke in Rigoletto, and Alfred in Die Fledermaus. He has performed for companies throughout the country, including Opera Delaware, Shreveport Opera, New Opera St. Louis, and Memphis Opera. He has been in resident artist and apprentice programs at Glimmerglass Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Tampa Opera. |
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 Scott Bearden (Germont) appeared earlier this season in the Fremont Symphony’s The World of Opera, and as Iago in the Oakland East Bay Symphony’s concert performance of Verdi’s Otello. Other engagements during the 2009 season have included Tonio (Pagliacci) with Knoxville Opera, the title role in Verdi’s Falstaff with Toledo Opera, and Germont (La Traviata) with Mercury Opera in Rochester, New York. Other signature roles for Mr. Bearden have been the title role in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Amonasro in Aida, Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore, and Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca. Mr. Bearden won First Prize in both the 2008 Irene Dalis Vocal Competition, and the 2007 Chester Ludgin American Verdi Baritone Competition, where his judges included Placido Domingo, Mignon Dunn and Julius Rudel. |
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 David Sloss, Artistic Director of Fremont Opera, conducted the Fremont productions of La Bohème and The Barber of Seville, and returns now for his third appearance. Since 1980, he has been Music Director and Conductor of the Fremont Symphony, which also serves as the orchestra for Fremont Opera. During his long association with West Bay Opera, beginning in 1981, he conducted over twenty productions for the Palo Alto company. Among them have been La clemenza di Tito, Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, Tosca, The Marriage of Figaro, Tartuffe, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Così fan tutte, Italian Girl in Algiers, The Turn of the Screw, The Magic Flute, Pagliacci, Carmen, Count Ory, Falstaff, La Bohème, and Candide. He served as General Director of West Bay Opera from 1997 to 2005, and as stage director for productions of Carmen, Il Trovatore, The Barber of Seville, and Lucia di Lammermoor. He has also conducted operas for Pacific Repertory Opera, Berkeley Opera, the Lamplighters, the San Francisco Talent Bank, and the Oakland Symphony. From 1970 until the start of his full-time work at West Bay Opera in 1997, he was Professor of Music at Sonoma State University. Prior to his appointment at Sonoma State University, Mr. Sloss worked as a producer and director for WGBH-TV in Boston, where he received an Emmy nomination for the National Educational Television series A Roomful of Music. He holds degrees in music from Harvard College and Stanford University. |
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 Jonathon Field returns for his third Fremont Opera production. He has directed over ninety productions throughout the United States. For Lyric Opera of Chicago he directed touring productions of Trouble in Tahiti, Gianni Schicchi, The Old Maid and the Thief, and The Spanish Hour. For San Francisco Opera's Western Opera Theatre he staged La Cenerentola and Die Fledermaus, and for Seattle Opera an updated version of La Bohème. Over the past ten years he has directed ten productions for Arizona Opera, and has been hailed as “their most perceptive stage director”. Mr. Field introduced computer-generated
scenery to opera production in Candide, and he has pioneered the use of video-projected scenery in productions of The Tales of Hoffmann and Der Freischütz. He has staged H.M.S. Pinafore for Opera Omaha, Trial by Jury for Lake George Opera, and Bernstein’s Wonderful Town in Chicago. He assisted Robert Altman with the world premiere of William Bolcom’s McTeague in Chicago, and David Alden with Conrad Susa’s The Love of Don Perlimplin in San Francisco. As Artistic Director of Lyric Opera Cleveland, Mr. Field staged a 2002 production of Don Giovanni that was nominated for the Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement. Other notable productions at Lyric Opera Cleveland have included a unique Così fan tutte in which the audience votes to choose one
of three alternative endings. |
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