Music That Tells a Story
Calling All Singers! Have you ever wanted to sing OPERA?
Hosted by the Princeton Festival Guild and Westrick Music Academy, this engaging workshop will give attendees the chance to experience singing in the operatic style. Princeton University voice professor Dr. Rochelle Ellis and soprano Emily Margevich, a Company Artist with OperaDelaware, will talk Broadway vs opera. Singers of all ages and ability levels are welcome!
Participants will:
- Enjoy free pizza & chat with an opera star
- Sing as part of an opera chorus
- Learn the key differences between opera and other singing styles
- Hear a performance by a real opera singer
- Work together to stage a scene
- Enter to win two free tickets to Puccini's Madama Butterfly & an upcoming Westrick Music Academy Concert this season!
This free program is presented by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in honor of the legacy of long-time Princeton Festival supporter Takako Lento. Music That Tells a Story will now be funded in perpetuity thanks to a generous gift of $200,000 from the Park Lento Charitable Fund and a major gift from Thomas V. Lento.
About Westrick Music Academy
Westrick Music Academy (WMA) is a nonprofit choral music program serving young singers in grades 1–12 across the Princeton and Mercer County region. Through the Princeton Girlchoir, Princeton Boychoir, and Poco Voce, WMA provides a supportive and inspiring environment where students grow in confidence, artistry, and community through high-quality music education.
Featured
Soprano EMILY MARGEVICH is “a star in the making (Bachtrack), acclaimed for her “charismatic and commanding” performances (The New York Times). This “poised and fearless Prima Donna” (Musical America) has been on stage since age two, performing professionally in Musical Theatre throughout her childhood in the Midwest. Emily continues to earn praise as a “luminous soprano” (Wall Street Journal) with “a voice of liquid beauty” (Opera Magazine) that is “big and luxurious, with a cascading quality, like a bolt of silk dropped from a balcony” (Parterre). Now a Company Artist at OperaDelaware, Ms. Emily is most known for her portrayals of Tatyana, Musetta, and Donna Elvira.
To find out more about this artist and OperaDelaware, visit operade.org.
ROCHELLE ELLIS, D. M. A., is a Lecturer of Voice at Princeton University and recently retired after 28 years as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. At Princeton, she teaches private studio voice and she teaches a class, Art Songs from the African Diaspora. As a performer, she has sung with leading conductors and venues around the world, including New York City Opera and Carnegie Hall. She is returning this summer as a Teaching Artist with the Princeton Festival. The St. Louis native received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, a Master of Music Education degree from Westminster Choir College of Rider University and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
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