Public Information Office

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: February 21, 2006
CONTACT: Donna Myers, 206.546.4717

SCC performs annual
Opera Workshop Performances
March 2 - 4, 2006

Shoreline, WA ― An adapted version of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. is the one-act opera that that will be performed at the 2006 Opera Workshop Performances at Shoreline Community College, March 2nd, 3rd and 4th at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Theater. The production will be fully staged and costumed, with approximately 30 music students participating.

The one-act, Die Fledermaus, adapted and translated by Shoreline CC music faculty, Catherine Treadgold, will be performed with a chamber orchestra. Bastien and Bastienne, Cosi Fan Tutte, and The Magic Flute will be featured to honor of the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Scenes from Wuthering Heights and Macbeth will also be performed.

Susan Dolacky is producer and music director. Paul Linnes is director; Frederick Lokken, conductor, Charles Enlow, pianist; and Robert Bigley is chorus master.

“We are fortunate once again to have assembled a terrific cast of young singers,” says Dolacky. “The scenes have something for everyone, from Mozart to the seldom-seen contemporary opera Wuthering Heights. In our adaptation, Die Fledermaus has been condensed to a fast-paced hour of Strauss’s beloved operetta, with its witty, champagne-inspired madness and glorious waltzes. It's the perfect way to introduce newcomers to opera.”

General admission is $12, $10 for seniors and college students, and $8 for children 14 and younger and SCC students with college ID card. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 206.546.4606 or at the Cashier’s Office in the FOSS Building. Tickets will also be available at the door.

The college is located at 16101 Greenwood Avenue North, west of Aurora Avenue and just north of Seattle city limits. For information about the Music Program, check out the web site at the following web address: http://www.shoreline.edu/Humanities05Music01.htm.

Photos from the opera rehearsals: http://www.shoreline.edu/opera

Faculty Bios

Susan Dolacky, producer and music director, received her master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Southern California. She is coordinator for the vocal program at Shoreline CC and has developed many courses such as Diction for Singers and Voice/Dance Performance Techniques, a movement class for singers. Dolacky produces and music directs the winter opera workshop which includes operatic scenes and one-act operas with a chamber orchestra and the spring musical. She was recently listed in Who's Who of American Women and is listed four times in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Fredrick Lokken, conductor, received his doctoral degree in choral conducting from the University of Washington, where he studied with Abraham Kaplan and Joan Conlon. He also holds a degree in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin. In addition, to teaching private voice and class voice at Shoreline Community College, Lokken is in his sixth season as Music Director and Conductor at the Bellevue Chamber Chorus.

Paul Linnes, stage director, earned his M.M. in Vocal Performance from USC and has many years of experience as a studio singer (Jurassic Park, Bram Stoker’s Dracula), choral soloist (three international tours to the Far East as a featured soloist with the Roger Wagner Chorale), and principal artist in opera, most recently in residence with Opera San José. In addition to his work at SCC, Paul maintains a private voice studio and is frequently Musical Director and Pianist for ArtsWest Playhouse in West Seattle.

Charles Enlow, pianist, has received abundant praise throughout the United States and Europe for his sensitive, virtuosic piano recitals as well as his formidable skills as an accompanist for vocal and instrumental soloists and ensembles. A native of Idaho, Dr. Enlow attended the Juilliard School and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and earned a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. Master teachers and coaches include Martin Canin, Claude Frank, James Dick, Yo-Yo Ma, and Rosina Lhevinne. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships. Dr. Enlow has served as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach on the staff of the Austrian American Mozart Academy in Salzburg, Austria, and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Southwest Texas State University.

Adaptor and translator Catherine Treadgold has been a member of the voice faculty at Shoreline since 2002. Catherine was born and raised in Seattle. After earning a B.A. cum laude from Princeton University in German Literature, she moved to New York City, where she performed in musical theater, opera and oratorio, eventually joining Actors’ Equity and becoming certified in stage combat. In 1990 she returned to Seattle to earn a Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of Washington under Mary Curtis Verna. Since then she has continued to perform in recitals, operas and musical theater, as well as lecturing and singing for Seattle Opera previews. As a mezzo soprano, Catherine has performed several trouser roles, including Niklaus. Tales of Hoffmann is her first stage work. She has also written a novel entitled The Past Rising.

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