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<DIV align=center><STRONG>'WHAT'S YOUR FIVE???"</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>May 13-15, 2011</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center>2010 Program Auditions are now over. Did your auditions go
they way you had hoped? Did you get into the programs that you had wanted? If
not, <STRONG>figure out WHY?</STRONG>. Take part in this intensive three
day workshop,<STRONG> "What's Your Five???"</STRONG>, and get feedback, coaching
and career counseling from the following opera professionals: <STRONG>David
Roth, General Director of Kentucky Opera</STRONG>, <STRONG>Bruce Stasyna,
Principal Coach of Palm Beach Opera</STRONG> and <STRONG>Helen Todd, Soprano and
General Director of Sugar Creek Symphony & Song</STRONG>.<BR>"What's
Your Five???" means what are your five arias? Maybe they are the wrong
five?? Do you have the right set of arias and in the right voice class?
Are your arias serving you in the best light to truly be considered for
employment? <BR><BR>This is a three day intensive workshop to prepare
singers' audition arias for Fall Opera auditions by working with three opera
professionals to give you the <STRONG>total package: vocal beauty, style,
language and great acting</STRONG>. Each accepted applicant receives <STRONG>six
1 hour coachings</STRONG> with three opera professionals in an effort to create
the total package for the singer's audition. Each applicant also participates in
<STRONG>3 master classes</STRONG> held over the three days. <STRONG>There
are only 12 slots available for this workshop</STRONG>. (All
coachings to be held in Cleveland Heights at Church of the Saviour.) Application
is available on Yaptracker.com. If you are not a member of yaptracker, please
contact Helen Todd at <A href="mailto:Devuh@aol.com">Devuh@aol.com</A> for
instructions to apply. </DIV>
<DIV align=center>Total cost of the workshop is $450 for a total of six hours of
coaching and six hours of master classes. <STRONG>Deadline to apply is
Wednesday, April 27</STRONG>.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><U>Singers will work on:</U></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Style</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Diction</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Phrasing</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Dramatic Presentation</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Vocal Technique</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Breath support</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Total Presentation</DIV>
<DIV align=center><BR>There is no age restriction to the applicant. This program
is perfect for singers straight out of graduate school that will be auditioning
for either young artist programs or opera companies in the fall or for
singers that have new repertoire to get ready for auditions. More importantly,
each singers gets <STRONG>honest</STRONG> career counseling.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><BR><STRONG>Opera professionals</STRONG> include David Roth,
stage director and General Director of Kentucky Opera, Bruce Stasyna, principal
coach at Palm Beach Opera (for the past four years), Green Mountain Opera
Festival and former principal coach at Minnesota Opera for five years; and
Helen Todd, soprano, who has sung with Canadian Opera Company, Minnesota,
Arizona, NYCOpera, among many others. Helen Todd is also the General Director of
the summer music festival, Sugar Creek Symphony & Song. You can read about
Helen at www.helentodd.com. <BR><BR><FONT lang=0 color=#008000 size=3
face="Geometr231 BT" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12">Sincerely,</FONT><FONT
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12">Helen<BR>General Director,</FONT><FONT lang=0
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12">Sugar Creek Symphony & Song</FONT><FONT
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href="http://www.helentodd.com/">www.helentodd.com</A></FONT><FONT lang=0
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href="http://www.sugarcreekfestival.org/">www.sugarcreekfestival.org</A></FONT><FONT
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