SCC students present opera performance

Enterprise staff

Shoreline Community College music and drama students and guests present the Opera Workshop Performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 and Saturday, Feb. 28. in the Campus Theater. The annual performance features operatic scenes with piano accompaniment and an adapted one-act opera, “Carmen” by Georges Bizet, performed with chamber orchestra. The scenes and one-act opera are fully staged and costumed.

This year’s operatic scenes include “Ariadne Auf Naxos” by Richard Strauss, “The Old Maid and the Thief” by Gian Carlo Menotti, “Mourning Becomes Electra” by Marvin David Levy, and “La Fanciulla Del West” by Giacomo Puccini.

Teresa Metzger Howe returns as guest conductor. Howe received her DMA in orchestral conducting at the University of Washington in 2001, under the tutelage of Maestro Peter Erös. This is Howe’s third year as guest conductor of the SCC opera workshop and spring musical. Ellen McLain, who was a guest performer at last year’s performances, returns as stage director after five years of leading the opera program at the Cornish School of the Arts. She was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Boston’s New England Conservatory where she earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honors in music. SCC Music Faculty Susan Dolacky is the producer and music director.

General admission is $12, $10 for seniors and college students, and $8 for SCC students and children 14 and under. To order tickets with a Visa or MasterCard call 206-546-4606; tickets may also be purchased at the door. Shoreline Community College is located at 16101 Greenwood Ave. N., west of Aurora Ave. and just north of Seattle city limits.