His postcollege vocal career began in 1966, when he was selected an SFO apprentice singer. People hire you.”Īlso through the program, young singers can work “with wonderful conductors and marvelous artists, which is tremendous training,” Holloway says, emphasizing the words, a soft smile playing around his lips. “You go out there and show what you can do. Then-SFO General Director John Crosby wanted to develop a bridge from a singer’s college work into his or her professional life - an important step, according to the recently appointed SFO director of the apprentice program, David Holloway, a tall quietly cheerful man with thick blondish hair. The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers began in 1957, the first of its kind in the United States. Kelley O’Connor portrays Garcia Lorka in “Ainadamar.” This year, whether the audience laughs along with Figaro, witnesses the grand spectacle of fairy-tale love in Puccini’s “Turandot,” revels in the pure emotion of Mozart’s tale of the Roman Empire, “Lucio Silla,” winces as bigoted villagers drive a fisherman to suicide in Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” or discovers the myth of Garcia Lorka in Golijov’s “Ainadamar,” SFO apprentices will sing somewhere on stage.
Throughout the summer, the SFO depends on these artists to play small parts, fill out ensembles, and appear in choruses for each of the five operas the company produces. The befuddled officers are brought to life by a group of highly capable vocalists in the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Singers Program. They march in confused circles, to end the first act of the Santa Fe Opera’s production of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.” The old man suspects his barber, Figaro, had something to do with the activity, but before he can find out, a chorus of police pounds on the door, demanding access to the house.įigaro joins Rosina’s tirade, and by the time someone lets the cops in, they can’t figure out whom to arrest.
The old fool will not marry her for her money!īartolo gapes, wondering how Lindoro got into Rosina’a room, disguised as a drunken soldier. With an arm around Lindoro, her lover, Rosina hurls an insult at Dr.
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