User:4meter4

Occupation: Music educator, concert and opera baritone, and church musician.

Interests: Opera. While I am interested in all aspects of this art form, I am particularly interested in operas by American composers and the history of opera in the United States.

Past work

 * Actors: Lily Cahill, Jake Lucas, Sid Silvers, Oswald Yorke
 * Architects: Giovanni Francesco Lucchini
 * Choirs: Vancouver Cantata Singers, Winchester Cathedral Choir
 * Choreographers: Danny Dare
 * Composers: Peter Allen, Javier Álvarez, Rosa García Ascot, Vicente Asencio, Jesús Bal y Gay, Milton Barnes, Julián Bautista, Joseph Beaulieu, Gilles Bellemare, Walter Buczynski, John Burge, John Burke, Neil Chotem, Gustav Ciamaga, Stephen Codman, Alexis Contant, Gabriel Cusson, Jimmy Dale, Raymond Daveluy, Hugh Davidson, Gordon Delamont, Isabelle Delorme, Samuel Dolin, José Evangelista, Jacques Faubert, Achille Fortier, Cesare Galeotti, Steven Gellman, Jiří Gemrot, Denis Gougeon, John Hawkins, Donald Heins, Herbie Helbig, Henry Hiles, Scott Irvine, Jack Kane, Peter Paul Koprowski, Alcides Lanza, Anne Lauber, Jimmie LeBlanc, Analia Llugdar, Michel Longtin, Stanislao Mattei, Ben McPeek, Chan Ka Nin, Paul Pedersen, Michel Perrault, Harry Puddicombe, Allan Rae, Welford Russell, Leo Smith, Boleslaw Szczeniowski
 * Conductors: Giuseppe Antonicelli, Norbert Balatsch, Gaetano Bavagnoli, Peter Butterfield, Simon Capet, Harry Dean, Sylvain Dupuis, James Fankhauser, James Gayfer, Charles Houdret, Ettore Mazzoleni, Chris Nance, Abdel-Halim Nowera, Charles Sauvageau, George Schick, Alfred Strombergs, Frank Welsman, Rick Wilkins
 * Instrumentalists: Robert Creech, Jeremy Findlay, Joseph Masella, Fred Stone
 * Instrument makers: Abelardo Albisi
 * Jazz performers: Ab Baars, Abe Bolar, Abe Most, Aleksei Kozlov
 * Magazines: Canadian Musician, Canadian Review of Music and Art
 * Musicals: Far from Heaven
 * Music Competitions: American Opera Auditions
 * Music Critics: Eduardo Arnosi, Stuart Broomer
 * Music Ensembles: Conservatory String Quartet, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Vancouver Woodwind Quintet
 * Music Schools: Canadian Conservatory of Music, Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec, Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Halifax Conservatory of Music, Maritime Academy of Music, Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, Vancouver Academy of Music
 * Music terminology: Meane
 * Orchestras: CBC Symphony Orchestra, Dossenbach Orchestra, Kingston Symphony, Kingston Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Orchestra, Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Welsman)
 * Operas: A Coffin in Egypt, Du style galant au style méchant, Eteocle e Polinice, Hercules vs. Vampires, Il Giustino, La divisione del mondo, La reine Fiammette, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Hero, The Last Savage, The Man Without a Country, The Trial of Mary Lincoln, Zenobia e Radamisto
 * Opera Companies: Eaton Operatic Society, Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company, Philadelphia Civic Opera Company
 * Opera Composers: Andrea Adolfati, João Arroio, Italo Brancucci, Antonio Cagnoni, Carlo Adolfo Cantù, Jesús Castillo, Lucien Chevaillier, Giovanni Consolini, Adrien de La Fage, Lorenzo Filiasi, Alberto Mazzucato, Giuseppe Mulè, Giacomo Rampini, Godfrey Ridout, Luigi Felice Rossi, Gustav Schreck
 * Opera Directors: John Berry (opera director)
 * Opera Houses: Opéra d'Avignon, Palmo's Opera House, Teatro Donizetti
 * Opera Singers: Douglas Ahlstedt, Valentina Bartolomasi, Francesco Maria Bonini, Gene Boucher, Beniamino Carelli, Gabor Carelli, Gregory Carroll, Maria Capuana, Pietro Chiarini, Billie Lynn Daniel, Margaret Daum, Ilana Davidson, Geraldine Decker, Edwina Eustis Dick, Muriel Dickson, Julianna Di Giacomo, Enrica Clay Dillon, Anna Fitziu, Florence Kirk, Franco Lo Giudice, Frances Greer, Lucille Kailer, Deanne Meek, David Mills, Elizabeth Fischer Monastero, Helge Nissen, Maria Pellegrini, Emilio Pizzi, Frank Porretta, George Rasely, Roald Reitan, Francesca Roberto, Petteri Salomaa, Polyna Savridi, Gabriela Sima, Marie Sundelius, Leonard Treash, Michael Trimble, Mallory Walker
 * Orff Schulwerk: Keith Bissell
 * Oratorios: La passione di Gesù Cristo (Salieri)
 * Organists: Paul Homeyer
 * Painters: Abbé Alexandre-Auguste Robineau
 * Philanthropists: James S. Marcus
 * Pianists: Johana Harris, Patricia Blomfield Holt, Elena Braslavsky, Howard Brown, Gladys Ewart, Richard Hunt, Robert Teichmüller
 * Plays: First Lady, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
 * Scenic Designers: Donald Oenslager
 * Stage directors: Irving Guttman, Bodo Igesz, Ernst Lert
 * World music: Abdurahim Hamidov, Abduhashim Ismailov, Abeti Masikini
 * Miscelleny: Francesco Carelli, Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music, Kingston Symphony Association, Madame Athanase David, Abdias Treu, Montreal Festivals, Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel, The Pirates of Penzance discography

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