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ABOUT US
Sponsored
by the Green Mountain Cultural Center
[non-profit
501 (C) (3)], the
Green Mountain Opera Festival is
truly a unique gem of a festival in Central Vermont. Our home is at the
Joslyn Round Barn in Waitsfield
with full opera productions performed at the historical
Barre Opera House. Our audiences are warm and extremely
enthusiastic.
As the founding Artistic Director of Vermont's professional
opera festival, my mission is to enrich the cultural lives of Vermonters
and of its visitors by consistently presenting high quality professional
opera productions and concerts. The GMOF also firmly believes in
integrating Vermont's vast artistic community with today's working opera
professionals both national and international.
It's not easy
building a professional opera festival from the ground up, especially in
these tough economic times, nevertheless every year our festival seems to
be growing stronger and stronger. Thanks to all the strong support from
the community, we're counting on you!
Festival activities include free open rehearsals, various concerts both
operatic and broadway style, free master classes with renown opera stars
such as Phyllis Curtin and Sanford Sylvan, and of course a fully staged, costumed opera
production accompanied by the Green Mountain Opera
Orchestra and Chorus.
This summer we will
introduce a fully staged second production,
The Elixir of Love, featuring our Emerging
Artists which will be performed at the Joslyn Round
Barn. And, of course, we look forward to seeing you at all our
events, including the festival's main production
The Marriage of Figaro at the Barre Opera House.
Artistic Director
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ADVISORY COUNCIL EXECUTIVE
Doreen Simko, president
/ Sally Molnar, media relations & secretary / Annemarie DeFreest,
member
ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS
Nancy Colby,
Anne Marie Defreest, René Epstein,
Kathie Friedman,
Kenneth Friedman,
Al Molnar,
Sally Molnar,
Andrew Nuquist,
Reidun Nuquist,
Doreen Simko,
Jack Simko,
Nancy Spencer Smith,
Janice Solek,
John Straub,
Kenneth Tefft,
Sylvia Velutini
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