UCSB Doctor of Musical Arts Lecture Recital
May
8
4:00 PM16:00

UCSB Doctor of Musical Arts Lecture Recital

Naomi will give a lecture on her research and culminating dissertation, Get thee to an asylum: reflecting on the evolution of mental illness and its portrayal in Thomas’ operatic mad scene, which discusses Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 Hamlet, and especially his characterization of Ophélie (his version of Shakespeare’s Ophelia) and her mad scene.

Additionally, Naomi will perform Ophélie’s Act 4 mad and suicide scenes as well as Jake Heggie’s Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia in collaboration with pianist Mandee Madrid Sikich.

UCSB YouTube channel. Link TBA.

Premieres on Saturday, May 8 at 4pm PST. Will remain viewable on YouTube for the foreseeable future.

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University of California, Santa Barbara Don Giovanni
Feb
26
6:00 PM18:00

University of California, Santa Barbara Don Giovanni

Performing the role of Donna Elvira in University of California, Santa Barbara’s remote concert production of Don Giovanni in Italian.

Music director: Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian.
Pianists: Dr. John Ballerino and Erik Lawrence

On the UCSB Department of Music’s YouTube channel: tinyurl.com/ucsbmusicyoutube

This photo was taken during Prague Summer Night’s 2019 production of Don Giovanni. Copyright Classical Movements.

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UCSB Doctoral Recital
Dec
1
1:30 PM13:30

UCSB Doctoral Recital

In collaboration with pianist Asher Severini, Ms. Merer will be performing a Mary Stuart-themed recital for her DMA at UCSB. Works by Joachim Raff, Richard Wagner, Carl Loewe, Robert Schumann, Edward Elgar, and Gaetano Donizetti.

Karl Geiringer Hall

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