23festivalinternacionaldr.alfonsoortiztirado 2007 / Boletín No. 310 / Enero 11, 2007
Rieman Opera Quartet
On Monday 22nd at 20:00 hours at Alamos’ City Hall in the frame of the 23rd International Festival Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado 2007 gala nights, it will be the performance of Rieman Opera Quartet integrated for soprano Chloe Hunter, mezzo-soprano Cynthia Ortiz, tenor Eun Pa Lee and baritone Nathan Krueger, accompanied for the pianist Brent Burmeister under the artistic direction of Charles Roe.
Program
Arias and ensembles of opera and operettas. Music of Gilbert and Sullivan, and Donizetti’s opera L’Elisir d’Amore and Thomas’s Mignon; Spanish arias and songs
Rieman Opera Quartet
It is conformed for outstanding graduated students from the School of Music of the University of Arizona, and their companion; they are specialized in selections of arias en ensembles of well-known operas and operettas.
The quarter was established in 2006 thanks to the scholarship granted for Amelia Rieman, who has been an important inspiration for the students from the music faculty of the University of Arizona.
Amelia Rieman’s great love for music and her generosity, lead her to leave a heritage that assures the continuity in the high quality of the operatic studies in the University of Arizona; at the same time, she established the fund for the Amelia Rieman Operatic Contest, an award for young talents in singing to keep their operatic improvement.
Charles Roe is baritone and director of the Opera Theater in the University of Arizona; he has had outstanding presentations with the New York Opera, Michigan, Fort Worth, Kentucky, Toledo, Connecticut, San Antonio, Utah, Opera Pacific, Mississippi, Cleveland, Sacramento, Lake George, Art Park Opera and the Festival Caramoor.
He has had presentations as a soloist with Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Flint, Wichita, New Mexico, Symphony Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Duluth and Tucson. Charles Roe stands as a professor of the Arts of Singing in the University of Arizona.
