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Imagine a baseball game with a team you'd never seen before.
Well, there were home runs galore Saturday at the Merola Opera Program's Schwabacher Summer Concert at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
The concert featured 23 singers, five apprentice coaches, and one apprentice stage director from a dozen US and six countries selected as the 2024 Merola class from over 1,300 international applicants, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Soprano Alexa Frankian of Oakville, Ontario, embodied the doomed heroine in the third act of Giacomo Puccini's La boh ?'me, surrounded by stars in the making: tenor Nathan Bryon as Rodolfo, baritone Sihao Hu as Marcello, and the clarion-voiced soprano Hannah Cho as Musetta.
Soprano Elizabeth ? 'Hanje ?'Hanje (from Vestavia Hills, Alabama) as Marguerite in Act 3 of Charles Gounod's Faust.
The afternoon's longest opera excerpt, which took up the entire first half of the concert, the ensemble cast, directed by Merola alum Omer Ben Seadia, also included mezzo-soprano Lucy Joy Altus as Siebel, mezzo-soprano Simona Genga as Marthe, tenor Giorgi Guliashvili as Faust, and bass-bari
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