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Showing posts with label Diana Kelly Eiler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diana Kelly Eiler. Show all posts
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Presenting Diana Kelly Eiler As Baba The Turk!
Diana Kelly Eiler/ Baba the Turk
Diana began vocal study as a soprano, majoring in vocal performance at Heidelberg College, where she received the Ohl Prize and Hoernemann academic awards, as well as making her professional debuts with the Toledo Opera in Babes in Toyland and Findlay Light Opera in The Gondoliers while still a student.
She was a N.A.T.S. Great Lakes Regional winner, Jessye Norman Award recipient, and semi-finalist in the Friedrich Schorr Opera Star Search. A brief stint in musical theatre with roles such as Lily in The Secret Garden and Christine in Phantom brought her the Anthony Award for Best Actress.
Diana made the transition to mezzo and alto literature as a concert and oratorio soloist, performing multiple renditions of standards such as Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, and Mendelssohn's Elijah; she was also regularly featured by the Fort Wayne Bach Collegium as soloist in the B Minor Mass, Saint John Passion and Saint Matthew Passion, as well as a variety of Bach's sacred cantatas.
Diana was first heard in the greater Madison area in Bach's Magnificat as a guest of the U.W. Choral Union, with the Madison Symphony Chorus both as an ensemble singer and soloist in Rutter's Gloria, Mozart's Missa in F Major and Kodaly's Missa Brevis, and as part of the Stoughton Opera Company, performed the countertenor solo in Orff's Carmina Burana. She has appeared with Fresco Opera Theatre in Dueling Divas II, and made her Opera for the Young debut as Jezibaba and the Foreign Princess in Rusalka. She will join OFY again as the Mother/Witch in their 2011-12 tour of Hansel and Gretel. In addition to singing, Diana plays viola with Cassiopeia String Quartet.
http://www.overturecenter.com/production/big-top-opera
Diana began vocal study as a soprano, majoring in vocal performance at Heidelberg College, where she received the Ohl Prize and Hoernemann academic awards, as well as making her professional debuts with the Toledo Opera in Babes in Toyland and Findlay Light Opera in The Gondoliers while still a student.
She was a N.A.T.S. Great Lakes Regional winner, Jessye Norman Award recipient, and semi-finalist in the Friedrich Schorr Opera Star Search. A brief stint in musical theatre with roles such as Lily in The Secret Garden and Christine in Phantom brought her the Anthony Award for Best Actress.
Diana made the transition to mezzo and alto literature as a concert and oratorio soloist, performing multiple renditions of standards such as Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, and Mendelssohn's Elijah; she was also regularly featured by the Fort Wayne Bach Collegium as soloist in the B Minor Mass, Saint John Passion and Saint Matthew Passion, as well as a variety of Bach's sacred cantatas.
Diana was first heard in the greater Madison area in Bach's Magnificat as a guest of the U.W. Choral Union, with the Madison Symphony Chorus both as an ensemble singer and soloist in Rutter's Gloria, Mozart's Missa in F Major and Kodaly's Missa Brevis, and as part of the Stoughton Opera Company, performed the countertenor solo in Orff's Carmina Burana. She has appeared with Fresco Opera Theatre in Dueling Divas II, and made her Opera for the Young debut as Jezibaba and the Foreign Princess in Rusalka. She will join OFY again as the Mother/Witch in their 2011-12 tour of Hansel and Gretel. In addition to singing, Diana plays viola with Cassiopeia String Quartet.
http://www.overturecenter.com/production/big-top-opera
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Fresco's Big Top Opera Featuring Baba The Turk - The Bearded Lady
Fresco Opera Theatre is proud to present Fresco's Big Top Opera, a spectacular show unlike anything you have seen before, or are likely see outside of our ring.
A combination of fine music and circus feats, presenting such acts as Sizzle Cisler the Fire Breather, Princess Charming the Half-Man/Half-Woman, the Strong Man - Ben the Barbarian, The Inseparable Suramese Twins, Amina the Airwalker, Baba the Bearded Lady, Leonora the Tamer of Beasts, and THE WHEEL OF DEATH!
There will also be a cavalcade of side show attractions, including performance artists and acrobats as well as a world premiere composition that is sure to please.
And we will be sending in plenty of clowns!
Fresco's Big Top Opera will be an EXTRAVAGANZA FOR THE SENSES! A SPECTACLE BEYOND BELIEF! A ONCE IN A LIFETIME ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE! (And it will all be done without those annoying circus smells)
September 30th 7:30 - 9:30 pm
October 1st 2:30 - 4:30 pm (Matinee) and 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Overture Center - Promenade Hall
201 State Street
Madison WI 53703
Reserved Seating $25
Overture Center Box Office (608) 258-4141
http://www.overturecenter.com/production/big-top-opera
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