Benefits and IOW Alumni Comments
We emphasize the benefits of international networking between singers
and conductors. In the past up to 50% of our singers were offered professional
opera / recital engagements in Austria, Canada, Switzerland and the Czech
Republic. In 2000, participant Kimiko Hata was offered a tour engagement of Spain to sing
arias and the soprano part in Verdi’s Requiem, and has also been invited to
give concert performances in Bulgaria. 2001 workshop participant, Jason
Papowitz sang Don Giovanni in Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni and Don Jose for the
Prague State Opera. In March, 2003 "Figaro" participants from our
2002 workshop, Jane Foster, Hayden DeWitt, Miguel Hernandez Bautista, Frances
Kraemer and Liam Bonner where invited back to Hradec Kralove, CR to perform in a
special concert of Italian Opera excerpts. In November 2004 participants from
our 2003 workshop, Ellen Cowan, Evelyn
Thatcher, and Chantal Parent, and Jason Papowitz have been invited back to Bulgaria
to sing in "Carmen" for the Young Music Forum
Festival in Vratza.
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