Verdi for the Lights!!

Claudio Santomé (tenor)

Emily Crawford (soprano) Ensemble Soprano Emily Crawford works with local Bay Area opera companies like Teatro Mistral in both their fully staged productions (Witch in “Macbetto) and concert series, and Phenix Opera (Venilia in Respighi’s “Lucrezia” and Nella in “Gianni Schicci”). In addition to singing, Emily teaches voice both in the traditional sense and through her Youtube series, “Easy as Do Re Mi”. Emily hopes to bridge her singing and teaching to engage in operatic outreach, thereby helping audiences fall in love with opera who may not think to seek it out.

Hanna Socorro (soprano) Nedda

Jeff Jones (Talpa)

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.com

Vismaya 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.

Dwight Okamura (pianist)