Kenosha Opera Festival

Get an up close look at our rehearsal process for Kenosha Opera Festival's mainstage production of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" performing at the Rhode Center for the Arts, two more chances to see it on August 4, and 6! Figaro, Rosina, and the stage director share their thoughts on what has made Rossini's popular work such a timeless classic and what they love most about it!

Check it out and get your tickets now!!!
https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022

BEHIND THE SCENES of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Get an up close look at our rehearsal process for Kenosha Opera Festival's mainstage production of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" performing at the Rhode Center f...

Are you a student around here?! Know any?! Well this THURSDAY is student night at the opera!!! It's not just our normal student ticket price - if you bring your student ID (including college students) you can get in to see the Barber of Seville for free! The show is really funny, and the singing will leave your jaw on the floor! Tell your friends, and see you this Thursday!!!

Congratulations to the whole team on opening last night!!! You only have three chances left to see this amazing production at work! You've met the cast, but now let's meet the creative team behind it! Ksenia Leletkina, our conductor, and Greg Eldridge, the stage director, return after their tremendous run of La fille du Regiment, last year!

Ksenia is an in-demand conductor/coach with credits at Palm Beach Opera, Opera Naples, Si Parla Si Canta, the Eastman School of Music, and many more!

Greg's career has taken him all over the world, from credits in his home country at Opera Australia, to Merola Opera, The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and more!

You can check out Ksenia, the cast, and see all their great work with Greg in our THREE remaining performances of Il Barbiere di Siviglia! Get YOUR tickets NOW!!! (Links in bio).

The Orchestra is in the buuuiiillldiiing!!! We always get SO excited when the instruments finally get together and start to play! You can check out this great pit, deftly led by Ksenia Leletkina, in our production, opening July 29th!!! Tickets are on sale now at our website, grab yours now!!!
www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022

Our master clinician for the Master Class (this Sunday, the 10th!), Mitch Roe, is the Director of Artistic Administration at the Florida Grand Opera in Miami Florida where, among his many duties, he oversees their prestigious studio program. Mitch's career has seen him at such major opera institutions as Wolftrap Opera and IMG Artist Management, before his time at FGO, and he is quickly gaining a reputation for professional development seminars, masterclasses, and individual coaching, most recently at the Vienna Summer Music Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida and Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

Catch Mitch working with our KOF Fellows this weekend and learn all about how singers work behind the scenes, the tradition, history, and languages of opera, and a lot more! Get your tickets NOW! Better yet, there's still time to pick up a Season Ticket and save on ALL our wonderful events this season, including this and all recitals, our Felows' Blackbox production of Orfeo, and even the Mainstage!!!
https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022

Doesn't this OFFICIAL poster for get you excited?!?! Us too! Don't be the one person in town to stay home, pick up your tickets RIGHT NOW to see this incredible team's work! Or, if you you're the kind of person who likes saving money, grab a Season Ticket to get access to the RESERVED section at all of our ticketed events, all season long! Oh yeah, and it costs less than a single ticket at most companies... Go buy yours NOW!!!
https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022

Our Fellows are here!!!!! They've been coaching their recital and pop-up repertoire the last few days and they're getting a deserved break today, for the holiday! If you're in a patriotic state of mind, put July 9th and 26th on your calendars to hear them sing the national anthem at the Kenosha Kingfish and the Kenosha Velodrome!

The slimy, machinating music teacher in Bartolo's estate, Basilio, will be played by Alex Boyd! That controlling relation of Rosina's, Bartolo, will be played by Stacey Murdock, and Berta, Rosina's caretaker and confidant around the house, will be taken on by lovely local soprano, Janese Pentico!

Hailed for his "perfect voice for Rossini" Alex Boyd has been seen at venues such as Sarasota Opera, Tulsa Opera, and the Pacific Opera Project besides many more!

Stacey has performed with the Martina Arroyo Young Artist Program, Portland Opera, Muses Project and many more and sung Mozart and bel canto repertoire widely.

And last but *very* definitely not least... Janese has appeared as Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with New York Lyric Opera Theatre, as well as the title role in Cendrillon and many others, and is a Kenosha local!

We are so excited for you to experience these wonderful artists alongside Max, Edith, Heeseung, and these three fabulous folks RIGHT here in Kenosha in our production THIS summer! Close this app, open a browser and go to our website ASAP so you can grab up your Season Ticket right now!!! (or just take this link in case you'd rather just go simply and calmly... which is fair... https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022 ) so you don't miss a single thing this summer!

Check out this AMAZING official poster for our blackbox show 'Orfeo ed Euridice' featuring our KOF Fellows, Savannah Kroeger, Autumn Voyles, and Marissa Lake! Last year our Fellows performed a fantastic scenes program, but this year we wanted to make an even better opportunity for them! The Fellowship really is about giving momentum to young, Wisconsin artists, and we cannot wait for them to have this experience, and for YOU to come and see it!!!

Grab up your tickets right now while we're on your mind (they're extremely affordable!) or, even better, pick up a Season Ticket so you catch absolutely everything, at a DISCOUNTED price at www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/Festival-season-2022 - get yours right now!!!

Our fantastic Rosina, Edith Grossman, Mezzo Soprano, talks about , KOF and how excited she is to come sing in Kenosha this summer!!! If you haven't already picked up your tickets WHAT are you doing?! You can get your tickets at our website https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022 and, while you're there, see if a Season Ticket is right for you! Season Ticket holders get access to ALL ticketed events all summer and perks like preferred seating, all for 15% LESS than regular price! Get yours right now!!!


https://youtu.be/ihNUtIkyyIw

Barber of Seville Spot #1, Edith Grossman | Kenosha Opera Festival Il barbiere di Siviglia is the story of a barber in the city of Seville named Figaro who serves a count named Almaviva. The count is looking for love, but no...

The love interest to Rosina and patron and buddy of Figaro, the Count Almaviva, will be played by Chicago local, Max Hosmer! A stand-out in Bel canto repertoire, some of his favorite roles include Don Ramiro in 'La Cenerentola,' Count Almaviva in 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia,' (lucky for us!) and Ferrando in 'Così fan tutte.' You can hear Max, Edith, Heeseung and all the rest right here in Kenosha this summer! Don't wait a MINUTE to grab up your Season Ticket at our website (link in bio) so you don't miss a thing this summer!

Out now, wherever podcasts are sold!!! The Kenosha Opera Festival hops onto Ktown Connects Podcast for a good old time talking about Kenosha, our Festival, and a lot more!!! Thanks so much, Jason and Donny, we had a great time hanging out!

One of the most fun presences in is Rosina, the plucky, independent girl kept hidden away by her creepy uncle, Bartolo! Taking on that role is the exciting artist, Edith Grossman, Mezzo Soprano! Besides her considerable coloratura chops, Edith is also experienced in music theater and English language operas such as Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 'If I Were You' which she performed with Merola Opera, and Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage’s 'Intimate Apparel' which she workshopped with Lincoln Center Theater in NYC. Check out Edith, Heeseung, and all our wonderful cast this summer in our production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and GET YOUR TICKETS now! Or if you're smarter and cooler than the average joe, pick up a a Season ticket so you have a priority seat to every ticketed performance we give, all summer!
https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022

Check out out very own Kaila Bingen's interview about her career, the Festival, and her path! Well done, Kaila!

Kenosha Opera Festival: An Interview with Kaila Bingen ’15 As the Carthage College school year comes to an end, so do our various recitals and performances that take place on our campus. However, there are many op...

The first person we will introduce from our stellar cast is the very man, the Barber himself, our Figaro, Heeseung Chae! Heeseung comes to us from Florida where he has been performing as a Young Artist with Palm Beach Opera but hails, originally, from South Korea! Heeseung has embodied lots of leading men in his time, from the Count in 'Le Nozze di Figaro' to Schaunard in La bohème! We are so excited to have him joining us, and when you hear him sing, you will too!!! Get your tickets to Il Barbiere di Siviglia at our website RIGHT NOW! Or better yet, pick up a Season Ticket so you don't miss a single thing we're doing this summer!
https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022

We are so excited to be bringing a new group of Kenosha Opera Festival Fellows into our season this year! We’d like to extend a big welcome to Savannah Kroeger, Marissa Lake, Autumn Voyles, and Ian Huddleston! We can’t wait to get started!

You can see Ian at the keyboard and these three ladies singing around Kenosha all summer, AND the three singers leading their very own black box production of 'Orfeo ed Euridice' this July 22nd and 23rd - don’t wait, grab your tickets now! Or, if you like saving money and seeing more live opera, you can get a Season Ticket so you catch everything we do all summer! https://www.kenoshaoperafestival.com/festival-season-2022

We are so excited to announce one more Grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board! This will, in part, support our orchestra Side-By-Side program for local instrumental students! Thank you so much!

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

We try to reach everybody in the community, and that means people who can't always make it out to our events, too! We had such a great time singing for all the folks at Ridgewood Care Center in Racine! We sang music they might've known - a bit of opera, lots of golden-age music theater, and even some jazz! The smiles and fun were so rewarding! Thanks so much to our soprano, Janese Pentico, and Fellowship alumna Katiann Nelson for sharing your wonderful artistry!

We are so excited to announce we have received a Mini-Grant from Wisconsin Humanities! This support will help to bring in our guest speakers and clinicians for our Fellows and the public masterclass they'll give! Thank you so much!

Our project supports Wisconsin Humanities’ mission to strengthen the roots of community life through educational and cultural programs that inspire civic participation and individual imagination.

Premiering NOW on !!! Most people go to the opera to hear amazing singing, but once you get into your seat you'll definitely notice there's a lot going on visually, too! But what goes into creating a set? How did they start out? And how much has this all evolved over the years? Well those questions and much more will be answered as we dive into sets and settings in this episode of ! https://youtu.be/lCVDR7vQ-Ag