Vegas City Opera under the baton of Paul Schrage and the Las Vegas Sinfonietta players bring you an updated, electrified adaptation of this Mozart classic. Hold on to your seat and dance your way through this dark romance of love, murder and lust. Celebrate the strength of the female trio as they conquer the Don, whose doom leaves the world a better place for all.
May 17th & 18th at 7:00-9:00pm
Charleston Heights Art Center
800 Brush St. (off Charleston Blvd.)
Tickets: $25 & $40
Conductor and pianist Paul Schrage appears frequently throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and United States, leading from the podium as well as performing as a solo and chamber artist. Mostly recently he was named Music Director of the San Francisco Civic Symphony starting in the 2024-25 season. He currently serves as Music Director the Midsummer Mozart Festival, as well as Music Director of Symphonia Caritas, a professional orchestra that provides benefit concerts in partnership with other non-profits. Highlights of the 2023-24 season include Don Giovanni with Vegas City Opera, Il tabarro with Teatro Mistral in San Francisco, a recording project of the orchestral music of Dave Soldier, and the 50th anniversary season of the Midsummer Mozart Festival. During the 2022-23 season Paul was a finalist for the Music Director position with Symphony of the Redwoods. In addition, after jumping in as a Covid replacement to conduct the San Francisco Civic Symphony, he was asked to serve as Principal Guest Conductor for the 2022-23 season. Previously, Paul served as Interim Music Director of the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra during the 2019-2020 season.
As a pianist, Paul has performed in recital, with orchestras, and in jazz settings across the United States, in Europe, Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has performed in such diverse venues as the INSAP Festival in Chicago, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the main square in Warsaw, Casa Huey Barbosa in Rio de Janiero, and with the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste of Kinshasa. Equally at home in the classical and improvisational realms, he frequently performs half classical, half jazz recitals. Artists he has performed with include harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, conductors David Ramadanoff, Armand Diangienda, and Elena Sharkova, trombonist and composer Bobby Brookmeyer, drummers Louis Bellson and Steve Smith, guitarist Gary Wittner, violinists Ian Swensen and Robin Hansen, and singers Christina Major, Kindra Scharich, and Nathan Granner. Paul has strong relationships with living composers, and has performed world premieres of works by Ingrid Stozel, Rubin Zahra, Eric Choate, and Paul Davies, among others. He was the Pianist-in-Residence of the Contemporary American Music Project, where he frequently collaborated with musical theorist and historian Cameron Logan.
Released in 2004, Paul’s first solo album featured the music of Mozart, Liszt, and Copland, as well as original compositions and jazz selections. With the jazz trio the Sideways Trio he released “In Defense of Our Dreams”, alongside drummer Jeff Hanson and bassist Doug Pohorski, featuring arrangements of rock songs, classical works, and original compositions. Paul has served on the piano faculties of Foothill College, Vandercook College of Music, and the International Summer Jazz Academy.
Hailed as "charming" (Opera News) and "commanding" (The Day Connecticut), with a voice that “trembled the foundations of the Warsaw Philharmonic” (Wielkanocny Festival LvB Czasopismo), Bass Alexander Hahn’s performance career has taken him to prestigious venues across the globe. Mr. Hahn’s recent performances include his Wagnerian debut singing the role of Wotan in Die Walküre with Vegas City Opera, Pietro in Simon Boccanegra with the Beethoven Easter Festival of Warsaw, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with Bronx Opera, Claudius in Hamlet with Opera Ithaca, Monterone in Rigoletto with Opera Theater of Connecticut, and the bass-baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with EOS Orchestra of Beijing in Beijing Concert Hall.
Mr. Hahn’s engagements for the 2023-2024 season include the title role in Don Giovanni with Vegas City Opera in collaboration with Las Vegas Sinfonietta, Zio Bonzo in Madama Butterfly with West Bay Opera, and an art song lecture-recital at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Mr. Hahn’s operatic performances include roles such as Colline in La bohème; Zuniga in Carmen; Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte; Leporello, Commendatore, and Masetto in Don Giovanni; Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro; Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia; Sparafucile and Monterone in Rigoletto; Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore; Banco in Macbeth; Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia; Lorenzo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi; King René in Iolanta; Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; among many others.
A former Paris Opera Competition Grand Finalist, Mr. Hahn’s commendations include awards and recognition from the Schuyler Career Bridges Organization, the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Heida Hermanns International Voice Competition, and the Yale School of Music.
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
The Ring Vegas! (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!
Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Sheronda has been appearing on stages in both the United States and Europe. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts Ph.D. at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas under the guidance of Dr. Alfonse Anderson. She is currently performing with Opera Las Vegas and the Vegas City Opera. Most recently, she was seen onstage in Opera Las Vegas' West Coast premiere production of Approaching Ali, where she played Odessa "Mama Bird" Clay. In concert and in scenes she has played Mimi (La Boheme), Violetta (La Traviata), Nedda (I Pagliacci). and Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), and others.
Sheronda has been a featured soloist in the Voices of Women Concert Series with VCO. She has traveled to Viterbo and Tarquinia in Italy with the International Lyric Academy and Graz, with the AIMS Program (American Institute of Musical Studies) where she was an alternate in the 2010 Meistersinger Vocal Competition. Recent awards include the Pasadena Opera Guild Scholarship, the Encouragement Award from MONC (Metropolitan Opera National Council) as well as First place in NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing).
Rebecca Morris made her debut on the professional opera stage in Phoenix, AZ with Arizona Opera and Phoenix Opera. She is a graduate of Northern Arizona University, and received certificates from The American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, The Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute and The Opera Academy of California in San Francisco, CA, The Crittenden Opera Theater Institute in Washington DC, The Flagstaff in Fidenza program in Fidenza, Italy, and The FIO ITALIA program in Urbania, Italy. She performed as a Mezzo-Soprano for most of her career, and only recently made the switch to Soprano, singing the roles of The Woman in Erwartung, Senta in The Flying Dutchman, and Brunnhilde in Vegas City Opera’s, The Ring Vegas, and Die Walkure! She most recently sang the role of La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica and covered the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Urbania, Italy.
Lyric coloratura soprano Jennifer Sung boasts a vibrant career that spans North America, Europe, and Asia. Praised for her 'flexible' and 'rich Mozartean singing,' she has charmed audiences at renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Staller Center in New York, Dekelboum Concert Hall at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C., and the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, South Korea. Her career highlights roles in bel canto operatic repertoire, such as the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Adina in L’elisir d’amore. Her repertoire also includes roles such as Mimì in La bohème, Gretel in Hansel und Gretel, Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, La Fée in Cendrillon, and Anna in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, among many others.
Equally adept on both concert and recital stages, Ms. Sung recently captivated audiences with a recital of Lithuanian art songs at the International College Music Society Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the summer of 2023. She has also performed as a soprano soloist in various oratorio and concert works, including Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Little Organ Mass, Scarlatti’s Su le sponde del Tebro, and many others.
Ms. Sung is a member of the voice faculty at California State University Long Beach and holds a B.M. degree from the Eastman School of Music, an M.M. degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and a D.M.A. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Praised for his “shimmeringly youthful timbre” (Voix des Arts), Chicago based Tenor Kameron Alston has a Bachelor of Music from Baylor University, and a Master of Music and Professional Artist Certificate from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Kameron has recently been seen in productions of Romeo et Juliette as Tybalt with Central City Opera, Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Piedmont Opera, Carlo in Linda di Chamounix and the title role in Orlando Paladino with UNC School of the Arts and many more.
Kameron is very excited to make his House and Role debut of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Vegas City Opera!
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.
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, Sulpice from Daughter of the Regiment and Captian Macheath with Vegas City Opera’s 2022 production of Three Penny Opera. Keith is excited to be back with Don Giovanni as the Il Commendatore
Ben Cohen is a professional director, producer, and stage manager. He recently graduated from UNLV with a degree in theatre production and design, focusing in directing and producing. Originally from Atlanta Georgia, Ben has worked shows of all variety all over Las Vegas. Some of his most recent credits include Lead Producer and Director of The Living Loop, Assistant Director of Cinderella (Super Summer Theatre), the Production Stage Manager of NEWSical and A Musical About Star Wars (V Theatre), and the Assistant Company Manager of Bat Out of Hell (Paris Hotel).
Madelyn happily returns to Las Vegas City Opera after recently participating in their latest production, "Daughter of the Regiment," as Assistant Director and Assistant Stage Manager.
Madelyn loves telling stories on the stage and thrives on the energy and feedback from a live audience. Her journey in the performing arts began as a vocal performance major, eventually earning her degree in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance with a focus on theater from ASU.
She has a diverse background in acting and directing, having worked in theater, film, and television, as well as modeling in New York City, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Notable experiences include being directed by Obie award-winning director Lee Breuer and making her off-Broadway debut as a reporter in his play “The Wrath of Khali.”
A former K-12 theater teacher, speech coach, and middle school choir director, Madelyn is currently a popular TEDx and speech coach, and also a passionate Argentine tango dancer, traveling to festivals around the country to connect with fellow dancers.
Recently relocating to Las Vegas, Madelyn is grateful for the love and support of her partner, Kevin. She is dedicating her efforts in these shows to her late son, Travis, and finds comfort and inspiration in knowing that Travis would be happy to see her back doing what she loves and working with this talented, creative community.
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