Celebrate the culmination of the BWI students’ hard work this summer!
This will be an all-Wagner concert featuring each student performing memorized, fully-staged Wagner scenes from Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Lohengrin, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, and Tristan und Isolde.
5:30-7:30 PM in Seully Hall at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
All scenes staged by our dramatic director, Chuck Hudson.
Accompanied on piano by Brett Hodgdon and Bob Mollicone.
Overseen by our artistic director, Jane Eaglen.
FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and students with ID.
$20 to all others, payable in advance on our website, or at the door.
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BWI 2024 Team: Jane Eaglen, artistic director; Chuck Hudson, stage director; Olga Melendez Valdes, assistant director; Brett Hodgdon, Robert Mollicone, Samuel Tam, pianist coaches; Katerina Skafidas, artistic administrator; Kyle Seniw, stage manager; Blake Hetherington, assistant stage manager; Tristan Leung, rehearsal pianist
Tannhäuser: Act II Scene 1, “Dich teure Halle” Elisabeth: Sarai Cole | Tannhäuser: Michael Ash | Wolfram: Joel Balzun | Brett Hodgdon, piano
Tristan und Isolde: Act I Scene 3-4, “O Süsse! Traute!” Isolde: Margaret Branyon-Goodman | Brangäne: Nicole London | Kurvenal: Joel Balzun | Robert Mollicone, piano
Die Walküre: Act II Scene 3, “Raste nun hier” Sieglinde: Calandra Damouras* | Robert Mollicone, piano *Originally cast as Analía Corpas, with Elias Berezin as Siegmund, who were both sick with COVID.
~ Ten-minute intermission ~
Der fliegende Holländer: Act II Scene 5, “Bleib Senta” Senta: Joely Seitz | Erik: Michael Ash | Samuel Tam, piano | Staged by Olga Melendez Valdes, assistant director
Das Rheingold: Vorspiel und Erste Szene, & Vierte Szene “Alberich’s Curse” Woglinde: Katerina Skafidas* | Wellgunde: Calandra Damouras | Flosshilde: Hadassah Meneses | Alberich: Joel Balzun | Brett Hodgdon, piano *Originally cast as Lindsay Greene, who was sick with COVID.
** Also programmed, but unfortunately canceled due to COVID: Lohengrin: Act III Scene 2, “Das süsser Lied verhallt” Elsa: Stephanie Pfundt | Lohengrin: Elias Berezin | Robert Mollicone, piano
Chuck Hudson, stage director
Chuck Hudson has directed opera productions at major international companies including Cape Town Opera (South Africa), Cincinnati Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Boston Baroque, Seattle Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Opera Center among others. He has directed award winning theatre productions in New York and regionally, including The Pearl Theatre, The Chester Theater, Cape May Stage, The Children’s Theatre Festival of Houston, New City Theatre, and Chicago’s Fox Valley Shakespeare Festival. Chuck’s work as a director was mentioned in the January 2011 Edition of American Theatre Magazine and the October 2018 Edition of Classical Singer Magazine.