UW Opera Theatre Fall Performance Nov. 19

The University of Wyoming Opera Theatre -- directed by Department of Music Assistant Professor Magdalena Wór -- will present its fall performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

The program will include "Le Colibri" by Chausson; "Nel cor piú non mi sento" by Paisiello; "El galán incognito" by Kilenyi; "Faites-lui" from "Faust" by Gounod; "Non So Piu" from "Le nozze di Figaro" and "An Chloe" by Mozart; "Le Papillon et la Fleur" by Fauré; "Questo amor, vergogna mia" from "Edgar" by Puccini; "No Word From Tom" from The Rake's "Progress" by Igor Stravinsky; and "Deh vieni alla finestra" from "Don Giovanni" by Mozart.

Also on the program will be "Gretchen am Spinnrade" by Schubert; "Au bord de l'eau" by Fauré; "If Ever I Would Leave You" from "Camelot" by Frederick Loewe; "No One Else," from "The Comet of 1812" by Malloy; "At the Ball" Op. 38 No. 3 by Tchaikovsky; "Cantique" by Boulanger; "Song of Black Max," by Bolcom; and "Largo al factotum" from "Il Barbiere di Sivilgia" by Rossini.

Vocalists are Owen Adams, Grace Butler, Kennedy Corr, Jeffrey Cuevas, Haley Elliott, Diego Frometa-Batezini, Dakota Hansen, Sage Hansen and Rhiannon Kilduff. Pianists will be Isabela Araujo, Augusto Barbieri, Francine Cancian, Alisson Garcia and Renato Miguel da Silva.

Wór teaches applied voice lessons and leads an opera workshop in the UW Department of Music. She is a Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions finalist; and winner of the Marcella Sembrich Kochańska International and the Heinz Rehfuss vocal competitions. Wór also was a finalist of the Marcello Giordani Foundation and the International Stanislaw Moniuszko vocal competitions. She is an alumna of the San Francisco Opera's Merola Summer Opera Program and the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera.

As a performing musician, Wór has performed with many opera organizations nationwide. Equally comfortable on an operatic stage or in an intimate chamber setting, Wór has collaborated with fellow musicians across the U.S., as well as in Great Britain, Mexico, the Philippines and Poland.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email [email protected].