Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 07/29/2008 12:01 PM
Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 07/30/2008 04:57 PM
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Bear Valley Music Festival Presents "The Best of Broadway Pops" Wednesday Eve!
Bear Valley, CA....On Wednesday, July 30th Join the Bear Valley Music Festival forThe Best of Broadway Pops at 7pm featuring Robin Fisher and David Gagnon This evening is always a festival favorite, full of fun, smiles and fond memories. Join us for performances from Sound of Music, The King and I and Phantom of the Opera. Robin Fisher, lyric coloratura soprano, has performed to critical acclaim in such cities as Paris, Vienna, Prague, Hamburg, Chicago and Dallas. Press reviews remark on her “amazingly precise coloratura, melting diminuendi, splendid high notes and delightful musicality” (Opernwelt) and her “mature timbre and total self-assurance….
an extremely exciting singer-actress” (Westdeutsche Zeitung).
Most recently, Ms. Fisher appeared as Hannah Glawari with West Bay Opera in their 2007 production of The Merry Widow and with Sacramento Opera as Frasquita in their 2007 production of Carmen. With the Sacramento Choral Society, Ms. Fisher appeared on tour in Europe performing works by Haydn and Dvorak in the cities of Munich, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. After her performance in concert at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (Davis, CA) in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony, the Sacramento Bee critic found “Soprano soloist Robin Fisher was thrilling…” She has also been heard in Mozart's C-minor Mass and Requiem, Haydn's Creation, Handel's Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, as well as works by Bach and Schubert with such ensembles as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Fort Worth Early Music ensemble. She was a featured soloist in the North American premiere of works by Spanish composer Francisco Courcelle with the Orchestra of New Spain in Dallas, and was guest artist at the Sonora Bach Festival as well as Music in the Mountains (Grass Valley, CA).
Ms. Fisher's many recital appearances in both Europe and the United States attest to her love for the art song. She has recorded works for flute and soprano with Laurel Zucker (“The Nightingale Sings”), and a compact disc recording of sacred American art songs in collaboration with pianist Dalton Baldwin was issued in 2003 (“God be in my Heart”). National Public Radio broadcast an interview and concert excerpts in 2002 from her lecture-recital series “Poetry and Music in the American Art Song.” Austrian Radio recorded her world premiere performance of several avant-garde works from the Styrian Fall Festival. Swiss Radio invited Ms. Fisher to record Mozart lieder accompanied by fortepiano for broadcast during a Mozart festival.
Ms. Fisher won both the prestigious Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship and a Rotary Foundation Award to pursue studies in Europe, and received the coveted Artist's Diploma cum laude from the University of Vienna. A native of California, she began her vocal studies at San José State University. Her students have won many competitions and are active performers and teachers throughout the United States. She is in demand both as adjudicator and masterclass teacher. Ms. Fisher is currently Associate Professor of Voice at California State University, Sacramento.
Tenor David Gagnon holds audiences spellbound with his dynamic performances and charismatic singing, acting and good looks. The 2007-8 season began with John Lorimond in Midnight Angel with Skylight Opera Theatre. He returned to Skylight Opera for his first Alfredo in La Traviata adapted and directed by Dimitri Toscas. He will then be J. E. B. Stuart in the world premiere of Kirke Mecham’s new opera John Brown at Lyric Opera Kansas.
Last season included Les Folies de Opérette with Opéra Français, Camille in “The Merry Widow” with Opera Columbus, Schubert’s Mass #4 in C and Gloria from Haydn’s St. Cecelia Mass with the Rochester Oratorio Society, and his debut as Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore with Cedar Rapids Opera Theater. He performed a Broadway Night with the Opera Columbus and a Bernstein Tribute in his debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
A versatile artist, he sang the role of Grendel Shadow in Elliot Goldenthal’s new opera Grendel with Lincoln Center Festival and Los Angeles Opera and appeared as Ferrando in Giorgio Strehler’s production of Cosi fan tutte in Athens, Moscow, and Recacati, Italy. He was acclaimed for his appearance of Lysander in John de Lancie’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as his performances of Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
On the operatic stage he sang Filch in The Beggar’s Opera with Teatri di Bari, Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio at Skylight Opera Theatre, the Prince in The Student Prince with Opera Columbus, and Frederic in Pirates of Penzance at Michigan Opera Theater.
Other highlights include soloist/Abbott in Schumann’s Manfred with the American Symphony Orchestra and the world premiere of Shining Brow, an opera about the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with Madison Opera.
Mr. Gagnon performed Lesgles and Enjolras in Les Miserables on Broadway for several seasons. Other credits include Ragtime (First National Tour), H.M.S. Pinafore, Utopia Limited, The Sorcerer, and Jinx in Forever Plaid (Chicago and Milwaukee).
For more info on this and other shows please visit: http://www.bearvalleymusic.org or call 209-753-2574
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