The SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY Opera Scenes Program was my entree into OPERA SAN JOSÉ. As a double major in Journalism and Improvised Music Studies, I auditioned for the Opera Workshop and soon after I switched my major to Voice and was offered a scholarship to do so. A year later I sang my first role at OSJ.
When I was a resident artist at OSJ, one of our offstage duties was stage directing scenes for the SJSU Opera Workshop Program. I directed many scenes from operas I loved and some I hadn’t previously known much about–IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO, the big courtroom scene from THE CRUCIBLE, the Lavender Blue/Lavender Green sequence from A TURN OF THE SCREW, and my favorite and the final scene I directed; The Rain Quartet from Marc Blitzstein’s REGINA.
