Il Tabarro Cast Tristan Robben (Michele), has sung with numerous Bay Area Opera companies including North Bay Opera, Bay Shore Lyric, Teatro Mistral, Verismo Opera and Goat Hall Productions. He counts Escamillo (Carmen), The Count di Luna (Il Trovatore), Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana) , Iago (Otello), Michele (Il Tabarro), Scarpia (Tosca), Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera), Fafner (Das Rheingold), Tonio (I Pagliacci) and Ford (Falstaff) in his onstage repertoire. www.tristanrobben.comJonathan Hodel (Luigi), a native of Denver, Colorado, has sung leading roles in houses in the United States and Europe. Beginning his career in the lyric repertoire of Bach and Mozart, Mr. Hodel’s voice has grown to take on the dramatic operas of Verdi and Wagner. He has sung concert works including Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and continues to have a passion for German Lieder, including the Song Cycles of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. https://www.jonathanhodel.comVismaya Lhi (Georgetta) was adopted into the U.S. from South Korea when she was a small child. Although she was having serious language problems when she first arrived, her mother says that she sang complete songs off the radio before speaking her first English words. She garnered top honors and her degrees from the University of California at Santa Cruz and continued her professional vocal studies with Lilyan Loran. She has sung in Italy, Mexico, Canada and across the U.S. in concert, opera and theatre. Venues and musical organizations have included The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Andanza Spanish Arts, Verismo Opera, Phénix Opera, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Theatre Flamenco, The Cabrillo Music Festival and the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival. In addition, she has premiered new works by various composers including Five Songs on poems by Gabriela Mistral by Dusan Bogdanovic at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City; these songs were written and dedicated to her. During the last years of his life, she worked closely with the late Joaquin Nin-Culmell (who was the last living student of Manuel Falla) for whom she premiered and recorded several new songs. Production/Conducting credits include Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Leoncavallo’s – I Pagliacci and Puccini’s – Madama Butterfly. Onstage Opera roles include the title roles in Tosca and Carmen, Leonora – Il Trovatore, Santuzza – Cavalleria Rusticana and Amelia – Un Ballo in Maschera. As the founder/Artistic director of Teatro Mistral, she envisions an ongoing intersection and reconception of music, opera-theatre and dance. She maintains a private studio in San Francisco where she teaches voice, piano, public speaking and musicianship.Julia Bae - (Frugola), Korean soprano Julia Bae is an Ohio District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Ms. Bae moved to The Bay Area last year (2022). This year, she made her local debut as Santuzza from Cavalleria Rusticana with Opera on Tap SF. She graduated from Seoul National University in Voice. She went to Italy to study opera at Rimini Academia, but decided to come to the US. She moved to Indiana and received her AD degree at IU. By the time she was finishing her Master’s degree from CCM, COVID happened and she was lucky to give birth to two children. Bae loved performing the roles of Pamina, Cio-Cio San, Miss Jessel, Donna Anna, Micaëla, Mimi and Liu. Her upcoming in town performance will be a recital with Lieder Alive. www.JuliaYujiBae.comJeff Jones (Talpa)Lucas Cecil (Tinca) is a San Francisco native, born in 2010. He began his musical journey with piano lessons at the age of 5.5. He first took private lessons with Erin Wang and then continued at the Community Music Center with Christian Bonvin. In addition to studying classical piano, Lucas is interested in improvisation and composition. To develop this talent, at the age of 9, he took private composition lessons with Harry Whitney for a year . He then auditioned at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and was admitted in the pre-college composition program at the age of 10. He was the youngest student in the composition major. Lucas now studies piano with Annamarie McCarthy and composition with Bobby Chastain at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.Lucas Cecil also hosts a radio show at KXSF 102.5 FM called Ad Lib, a show dedicated to classical music. He started voice lessons in September 2020, working with Vismaya Lhi. Arie Perry (Music seller, tenor lover) Born in Israel and moving to the US at 5 years of age, lyric tenor Arie Perry began his musical training playing folk guitar at age 10, gradually adding voice to his musical arsenal after becoming the lead singer of a rock band in high school. Feeling the need for vocal training to handle the technical challenges of Journey, Rush, and the Police, he joined the high school choir and started voice lessons. He quickly caught the classical music bug, which transformed into a lifelong passion. Known for his graceful phrasing and ringing high notes, his solo repertoire has focused on baroque and classical choral works, but also opera, art song, popular, and musical theater repertoire. He has sung with various ensembles, including the Dallas Bach Society, Rochester Choral Arts Ensemble, American Kantorei, San Francisco City Chorus, Oakland City Chorus, American Bach Soloists, Valley Concert Chorale, and Marin Baroque. This is Arie’s debut performance with Teatro Mistral. Arie is also a physician and the Chief of Neuropathology at UCSF, having moved to the Bay area with his wife, Andrea in 2010. Combining his vocal talents and medical expertise, he previously recorded a CD entitled “Neuropathology Songs” to help students remember salient features of common neurological disorders. This novel educational tool has been highlighted in media stories by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, NPR Marketplace, the Singer Network (of Chorus America), and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. More recently, he has created many new video versions of these neuropathology songs, as well as various classical performances, which have been posted to his YouTube channel. Nicole Lopez-Hagen (soprano lover, midinettes and music-seller cover) received her MFA in Music Performance from Notre Dame de Namur University, where roles included Lazuli in Chabrier's "L’étoile" and Le Fée in Viardot's "Cendrillon." She most recently appeared as Charlie the Choirstarter in Lamplighters Music Theatre's 2022 Champagne Gala. She has also sung often with Opera San Jose, Chamber Music Silicon Valley, and Pocket Opera, where roles included Lidka in “Two Widows" and Barbarina in “The Marriage of Figaro." She has appeared in many new works, including as Luisa in the workshop premier of Hector Armienta’s “Zorro” with Opera Cultura, Marie in the premier of Scott Joiner’s "The Shower” with Vienna Summer Music Festival, and first soprano in the premier of Joseph Becker’s “Obscuri Lateris Illuminati: A Requiem Mass from Pink Floyd." Other credits include Madame Herz in "Der Schauspieldirektor," and Königin der Nacht in "Die Zauberflöte."Adeliz Araiza (soprano lover and midinette) is an American Soprano, a San Francisco Native, and a licensed Acupuncturist. She has performed with San Francisco Lyric Chorus, Lamplighters Opera Theater, and has also stepped out of the classical genre to perform with a San Francisco based Acapella group, Scales of The City. Her recent performances include being in the chorus for Opera On Tap’s, Cavalleria Rusticana. She was also in the ensemble and the cover for Amiam for The Lamplighters in Il Ducato. She will also be performing later this year with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Paige Tagliafico (midinettes -Frugola cover) a Bay Area native singer, who is thrilled to be joining Teatro Mistral this season. She recently appeared in Cavalleria Rusticana earlier this year with Opera on Tap, and has sung with Masterworks Chorale and the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus in recent years. In her free time, she loves reading, spending time in nature, and planning her next Halloween costume.
