Mozart’s Requiem is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

David Robertson guest conductor

Lyric Opera of Chicago

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

“Roger Norrington”, Sir Roger Arthur Caver Norrington is a British conductor.

The Metropolitan Opera

Elvira is a character in the opera Don Giovanni

Musetta and Mimi are characters in the opera La Bohème

DePaul University Music Department

Nicole mentioned her education at the Chautauqua Institution run by Marlena Kleinman Malas in upstate New York as well as the influence of the late Richard Pearlman who was an American theatre and opera director.

Stacey Tappan is an American coloratura soprano.

Erin Wall is a Canadian soprano acclaimed for her performances of Strauss, Mozart, Mahler and contemporary opera.

Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.

Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.

Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Sting

James Taylor

PBS: Public Broadcasting Service

Both Nicole Cabell and Renée Fleming attended the Eastman School of Music for their undergraduate educations.

Benton Hess, the founder and Artistic Director of “Si parla, si canta” also attended Eastman.

Oberlin College and Conservatory

Indiana University

Roosevelt University

Frédéric Antoun was originally cast as Romeo but due to unforeseen circumstances had to cancel. Romeo was played by Matthew White.

“Je veux vivre” is an Aria from Charles Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette and is Juliette’s first area.

La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Marguerite is a character in Gounod’s opera Faust

“The Poison Aria” is an Aria from Charles Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette

“Je dis que rien ne ne m'épouvante” is an Aria sung by the character Micaëla in Carmen, an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.

Mirella Freni is an Italian soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

Porgy and Bess is an opera by the American composer George Gershwin.

Rosalinda is a character in the opera Die Fledermaus

The Cunning Little Vixen

Fiordiligi is a character in the opera buffa Così fan tutte by Mozart

Rusalka is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák.

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi

Simon Boccanegra is an opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi

The Paris Opera

Nico Castel

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland was an Australian-born coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

Stevie Nicks