Beloved Maestro & Las Vegas local Dennis Doubin & Vegas City Opera bring you this bright & cheeky 90-minute comedy with its lovely melodies, vocal fireworks, and hilarious English & French repartee, the quick wit of The Daughter of the Regiment is the perfect piece to brighten your day and take you away to GAY Paris!
March 1st & 2nd @ 7:00PM
Charleston Heights Art Center
800 Brush St. (off Charleston Blvd.)
Tickets: $25 & $40
FREE Student RUSH TICKETS!
(20 minutes before curtain)
Conductor
Grammy Award winning pianist and conductor Dennis Doubin is proud to call the Vegas valley home and participate in local arts. He's the Music Director of Vegas City Opera and has presented several productions with the company. Previous and current professional credits include Komische Oper Berlin, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Henderson Symphony. A Henderson resident, Maestro Doubin has led Henderson Symphony orchestra in several performances. A full-time member of San Francisco Opera music staff, Dennis has been asked to prepare every facet of the opera production. He can be found coaching singers, prompting performances, and conducting backstage banda. Mo Doubin made his SFO debut conducting Puccini's "La Bohème" at the War Memorial Opera House in 2014. He also appeared leading Verdi's "La Traviata" and Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" at Opera San José in recent seasons. Dennis began his musical journey in Moscow, Russia at the Moscow Boys Chorus and Choral Academy, where he also excelled as a pianist. After immigrating to the United States, he was a student at Idyllwild Arts Academy and would go on to study piano with Vitaly Margulis in Los Angeles. He became assistant conductor at Los Angeles Opera and subsequently assisted with vocal projects for Los Angeles Philharmonic. Other professional engagements include, Seattle Opera, San Diego opera and Sacramento Opera. Mo Doubin further honed his skills in the SFO's Merola and Adler programs. A sought-after coach, Dennis has coached and collaborated with some of today's most important vocalists that include Renee Fleming, Diana Damrau, Leah Crocetto, Dolora Zajick, Ramon Vargas, Brandon Jovanovich, Michael Fabiano, Stephen Costello, Bryn Terfel, George Gagnidze, Ildar Abdrazakov and others.
Athena Mertes, Soprano, is one of the Valley’s most celebrated sopranos, whose opera and concert credits include Mimi (La Bohème), Musetta (La Bohème), Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Lucy (The Telephone), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Gianetta (L’Elisir d’Amore), Morgana (Alcina), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Abigail (The Crucible), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Waldvogel (Siegfried) and soprano soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, Brahms Requiem, Mozart Requiem and Honegger’s King David. She has performed as a guest soloist with the Burbank Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Henderson Symphony, Opera Las Vegas, Vegas City Opera, Lexington Opera Outreach and the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society. Her recent credits include Sylvia in the World Premiere of Behold the Man, Zelda in the West Coast Premiere of Ghosts of Gatsby and Alice B. Toklas in the West Coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek’s 27 with Opera Las Vegas and she portrayed Mimi in Vegas City Opera’s La BoDead.
She is also the Chorus Master of the Opera Las Vegas Youth Chorus and the Director of Choirs at Thurman White Academy of the Performing Arts where she has 400 students. In 2020, she received the Teacher of the Year Award from Magnet Schools of America and is also a National Board-Certified Teacher. In March of 2024, her Choir will be featured at the American Choral Directors Association Regional Conference in Pasadena, California and in April of 2024, her contemporary a cappella group will be featured at the National Magnet Schools of America Conference in New York City.
Discovering an operatic voice came as quite a surprise, especially having been focused on instrumental music throughout childhood. This revelation has provided Jorge with incredible opportunities to showcase his talent in stunning venues across the globe. His performances have graced stages in New York City at Carnegie Hall, in Brugge, Belgium at The Concertgebouw, in Macau, China during The Grand Opening of the Venetian Macau, in Paris, France at Notre Dame, in London, England at The Royal School of Music, and not least, in Las Vegas, among others.
Jorge’s roles have been diverse and challenging, including portraying Pablo Picasso and F. Scott Fitzgerald in “27” with Opera Las Vegas; the 1st trio member in “Trouble in Tahiti” and Ferrando in “Così fan tutte” with Sin City Opera; Don Ramiro in “La Cenerentola” with Dicapo Opera in New York City; Arturo in “I Puritani” and Tonio in “La fille du régiment” with Riverfront Opera in Yonkers; Tamino in “Die Zauberflöte” with Regina Opera in Brooklyn; El Remendado in “Carmen” and Parpignol in “La Bohème” with Opera Las Vegas; and Ernesto in “Don Pasquale” with APA/Opera New York. His European debut was in Belgium as Monostatos in “Die Zauberflöte” with Intermezzo. Moreover, Jorge sang Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall in a benefit for the victims of Japan’s devastating earthquake in 2012.
Soprano Marcie Ley has received critical acclaim for her performances across the United States and Europe.
Notable roles performed include Violetta (La Traviata), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan Tutte), Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Mimi (La Bohème), Liú (Turandot), Marguérite (Faust) and Nedda (i Pagliacci), with numerous regional opera companies in the USA, and also in Europe at The Arena di Verona in Italy, Opéra National de Montpellier in France, and in Germany with Theater Dortmund, Oper Leipzig, and the Musiktheater im Revier.
This is Marcie's 10th season with Vegas City Opera, where she currently serves as President of the Board and Director of Education & Outreach and has been lauded in roles such as her “memorable and thrilling” Magda Sorel in The Consul, and her “brilliant and complex” Elle (The Human Voice).
She has been a competition finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the Loren Zachary Foundation, the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, and the MacAllister Foundation. Other professional credits have included Sarasota Opera’s Helen Dellera Jepson Award, and the Shoshana Foundation’s Richard F. Gold Career Grant.
Keith Milkie graduated from the William Esper Conservatory for Acting in New York City in 2015. Since then he has appeared as a soloist at Zankel and Weill Halls at Carnegie Hall and performed with The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, The Regina Opera Company, The Italian Opera Company, The Long Island Opera Company, The West Side Opera Company, Vocal Productions NYC and Vegas city Opera. His was the voice of the Bruce Weber-produced Versace “Chicago is my Beat” video fashion campaign of 2016. Vocal performances have taken place in such far-flung locations as Milan, Salzberg and the Hunan Provence in China. Just before the pandemic, he performed all the classic 24 Italian Songs and Arias in a solo recital at St. Johns in the Village NYC. Staged roles have included Don Giovanni, Dr. Bartolo and Figaro from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Valentine from Faust, Scruples from The Impresario, Commendatore, and Captian Macheath with Vegas City Opera’s 2022 production of Three Penny Opera. Future productions this season include Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Vegas City Opera.
This is Stephen's debut on the Charleston Heights stage. No stranger to Vegas City Opera, they always call when a lunatic of his caliber is required for a production. He has been involved in musical theater for the past 50 years. He has studied voice and acting with some of the most celebrated teachers in San Francisco. Of course, all will deny and wrongdoing or association with him to keep the paparazzi at arms length and keep their reputations intact. Excited to bring the role of Hortensius into his repertoire of possibly unstable characters. Retired Visual Display Artist from Bloomingdale's, and various other sundry retail and furniture establishments. Award winning Halloween Yard Haunter and Christmas Display Guru. Will decorate your Christmas, Halloween or Holiday tree for a small fee or premium homemade baked goods. Has been known to wear costumes to retrieve the mail or attend HOA meetings. He has comically bungled his way across the stages of the San Francisco Lamplighters, Piedmont Light Opera, Contra Costa Civic Theater, Redwood City Community Theater, Signature Productions, Huntsman Entertainment, Vegas City Opera, Las Vegas Little Theater and Super Summer Theater. Some of his most memorable roles include: Santa Claus (Elf), Lord Sebastian (Cinderella), Major General Stanley (Pirates of Penzance), Grimsby (Little Mermaid),
Hysterium (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Mr. Twimble (How to Succeed in Business), Grandpa Joe (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), Merlin (Camelot), Drake (Annie), Henry Ford (Ragtime), and possibly the oldest Motel the Tailor on record (Fiddler on the Roof). As always, thanks to AJK for his support and patience.
Opera News stated Marshall Morrow “tall, thin and hilariously snooty, showed real comic skill” (Isouard’s Cendrillon). Marshall Morrow a Filipino-American Baritone from Las Vegas, Nevada has recently performed Sciarrone in Las Vegas Opera’s production of Tosca and Schaunard in Vegas City Opera’s La Boheme and Ben in The Telephone with Super Summer Theater. Along with Tom/John (The Face on the Barroom Floor), The Pirate King (Pirate of Penzance), Corporal and Sulpice (Daughter of the Regiment), Escamillo (Carmen), Marcello (La Bohéme in Concert), Gamekeeper (Cunning Little Vixen), Father (Hansel and Gretel) Ben (Old Maid and the Thief), and Papageno (The Magic Flute). Previously Marshall performed the role of Rambaldo in La Rondine as a Young Artist at Lidal North in Oslo, Norway. His roles include Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Dandini in Isouard's Cendrillon and the summer of 2017, Marshall performed the role of Le Surintendant des plaisirs in Massenet's Cendrillon the role title of Don Giovanni at Trentino Music Festival. Other performance credits include the role of Miton in the U.S. premiere of Delibes' Le Roi L'a Dit. Marshall performed/ created the role of Gregory in a workshop of Vera by Matthew Barnson in collaboration with American Opera Project. Marshall has sung with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Alan Gilbert.
Gianni Matteo holds a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance and Music Education. He has sung in the choruses of Madame Butterfly, Tosca, and Elixir Of Love. Notable operatic roles include Don Ottavio in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and Edwin in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial By Jury". Thrilled to be joining Vegas City Opera for his debut production, Gianni balances teaching elementary music and private voice and piano with captivating performances on the Las Vegas strip, including at Mayfair Supper Club and Don’t Tell Mama Piano Bar.
Kurt Sedlmeir, Lyric Baritone, currently resides in Las Vegas and is a graduate of UNLV's School of Music where he majored in vocal performance recieving his bachelor of music in 2019.
In addition to this, Kurt has studied Opera in both Austria and Munich, Germany. He has been featured in productions with UNLV Opera Theatre and Vegas City Opera. These roles include:
The Quince in A Midsummers night dream (2017), Masetto in Don Giovanni (2018), The Jailor/1st office and 2nd commissioner in Dialouges of the Carmelites (2019), Hunding in Vegas City Opera's production of
Die Walk¸re (2020), Benoit/Alcindoro in La Boheme (2021), Escamillo in Carmen (2022) Hunding in Die Walkure (2023) and most recently played in 8 songs for a Mad King (2023).
Kurt is always excited to get up and perform and hopes that you will enjoy the show!
Roger Bunnell is a musical theater actor, making his Vegas City Opera Debut, after recently moving from Omaha, Nebraska. In Nebraska, he was a professional actor, singer, and teacher, and before that studied Theater at Midland University in Fremont, NE, under Dan Hays and Lee Meyer. There he received a bachelor's degree in Theatre Performance and Vocal Performance, while being a part of over 15 collegiate and professional productions. As an actor, some of his favorite roles were Judas (Jesus Christ Superstar), Captain Phoebus (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), and Jack Kelly (Disney’s Newsies). He was happy to receive a review for his role as Jack Kelly, from Christine Swerczek at Broadway World, saying “ He is Jack Kelly. And I’m not sure I’ve seen a better one.” His proudest achievement, however, was his debut as a director, bringing his favorite musical, Big Fish, to Midland. While pursuing a love for performance, Roger gets to work full time in Children’s Ministries at Canyon Ridge Christian Church, blessed with the opportunity to share the love of Jesus with hundreds of kids every week.
Johnnie is a Las Vegas native who has over 20 years of choral experience. He did musical theater in high school and played many supporting roles in shows like “Into the Woods”, “Seussical: The Musical”, and “Cinderella”. Last year was his first year back performing musical theater after 10 years in Super Summer Theater’s production or “Cinderella”. He is excited to be participating in his first Opera with “The Daughter of the Regiment”. He would like to thank his family, friends, and fiancé for always supporting him on his performance journey.
Brenden graduated from LVA in 2020 as a Vocal Major, where they learned various performance skills on campus as well as outside campus opportunities for growth as an artist. Previous roles include Lyle in Footloose: The Musical, Congregant in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Ensemble in Cinderella. They are currently graduated from CSN, set to receive a diploma for their Associate of Arts Degree with an emphasis in Theatre. When they are not at school or on stage, Brenden spends time at home and loves to dance, sing, act, and write.
Skip would like to shout a great big thank you to this talented cast and production team, the City of Las Vegas, and Two Morrow's Music for being excellent and fun collaborators in bringing this work back to the stage after the events of 2020 left it in a box on a high shelf just one week before its opening at the Troesh Studio Theatre at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. It is so satisfying to watch it finally unfold in all its glory. He has been performing on stage since the age of 13 and is currently celebrating his 25th year of directing. Favorite directing stage works include his first, The Music Man in 1999 with the Venango All-School Musical in Pennsylvania; VCO productions of The Telephone/The Human Voice (2014), Postcard from Morocco (2016), The Pirates of Penzance (2018 at Super Summer Theatre), The Flying Dutchman (2018), La BoDEAD (2021), and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (2023 at Super Summer Theatre). Productions of note he has directed outside of VCO include 4000 Miles (2017) with Las Vegas Little Theatre, Candide (2018) with the Henderson Symphony Orchestra, and Matilda (2022) with Rainbow Youth Theatre Company. Highlighted roles as a performer include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1997, Barrow-Civic Theatre), Charlie Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1997, Venango All-School Musical), Berger in Hair (2004, Erie Playhouse), Snoopy in Snoopy: The Musical (2011, RagTag Entertainment), Jack/Jesus in Reefer Madness: The Musical (2012, Chaos Theatre Company), Sam in Trouble in Tahiti (2015, VCO), The Man with a Shoe Sample Kit in Postcard from Morocco (2016, VCO), and Marco in Gianni Schicchi (2019, VCO/Vegas Theatre Company). Skip also has a dark history under the stage playing mallets and percussion for many a show in his younger days. His great guilty pleasure is in adapting and retranslating the text and lyrics of older opera works for performance with VCO. Notable translations include Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (2014), Offenbach’s Ba-ta-clan (2011) and La Périchole (2016), Schönberg’s Erwartung (2017), Puccini’s La Bohème (2021 La BoDEAD), and select portions of Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment (2020/2024). Aside from his fulfilling life in the theatre, Skip has also spent his days for the last 11 years working as an infection prevention nurse at UMC Hospital. While he pretends to be sleeping, he is currently working on his master’s degree in executive nursing leadership at Chamberlain University. His passion and dedication lie firmly in his nursing work, his amazingly supportive husband, Jai, and bringing opera to his community in ways that will surprise them, engage them, and ultimately enrich their lives.
Emily Kurcan Stephenson is excited to be back with Vegas City Opera as the Stage Manager for Daughter! A lifelong performer, Emily first dabbled with backstage work as an assistant stage manager in college, but she did not fall in love with the production side of live music until she had the opportunity to work backstage for some of her favorite performers. Currently Emily works as the General Manager for The Space, an intimate venue right off the Strip that regularly hosts local favorites and national acts. Favorite recent stage managing credits include Mondays Dark’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, Sarah Hester Ross’s Viral Live, being an on-call assistant stage manager for An Evening With Whitney, and VCO’s La BoDead.
In addition to her production work, Emily is the Managing Diva for the Las Vegas chapter of Opera on Tap. She still performs when she has the chance, favorite current performances include Opera on Tap shows and singing as a guest on Kenny Davidsen’s Bowtie Cabaret. Other favorite performances include La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, Geraldine in Hand of Bridge, and Musetta in La Boheme. Emily holds an MM in Vocal Performance and an MA in Musicology from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. Her research has been presented to the Southwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology and published on Operagasm.com. She holds a BM in Vocal Performance from Baldwin-Wallace.
Emily is grateful to Skip and Vegas City Opera for giving her the opportunity to come back to her opera roots. She would like to thank the cast and crew for their fabulous work to bring this production to life. And finally, Emily wants to give a special shout out to her amazing husband Andrew and her two cats, Taco and Ella, for their love and support of all of her crazy adventures.
Madelyn Vann’s heart has always beat to the rhythm of storytelling and the harmonies of music, finding joy and magic in the electric connection with a live audience. Following a transformative experience under the guidance of Obie award-winning director Lee Breuer, who encouraged her after stellar performances as Stella and Lulu in “Streetcar” and “The Lulu Plays”, to make her mark in New York, Madelyn debuted as a reporter in Breuer's off-Broadway play, "The Wrath of Khali." This marked the beginning of a diverse career that spanned theater, film, and television, with performances on the stages of New York City, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Beyond acting, Madelyn's versatility has extended to directing and writing, and she has also been a sought-after model in prominent cities.
An accomplished TEDx and speech coach, Madelyn brings a wealth of experience to her roles as Assistant Director and Assistant Stage Manager. Her journey in the world of performing arts includes teaching in K-12 education, where she served as a dedicated theater and speech coach, as well as a middle school choir director.
While Madelyn initially pursued a vocal performance major, her passion for the arts led her to graduate with a degree in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance, specializing in theater, from ASU. While initially aiming for a career within the film industry, health considerations redirected her path. Nevertheless, her love for the arts persevered, and she found new expression through Argentine tango, becoming a skilled dancer who travels to festivals nationwide to connect with fellow enthusiasts.
Recently settling in Las Vegas, Madelyn expresses deep gratitude for the support and love of her partner, Kevin Kean. Embracing the opportunity to be part of a creative community once again, she extends appreciation to Skip for providing the platform to dive into her first opera show.
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