{"id":63781,"date":"2010-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-opera-theater-to-feature-acclaimed-nine-year-old-vocalist-nov-21\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-opera-theater-to-feature-acclaimed-nine-year-old-vocalist-nov-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/11\/uri-opera-theater-to-feature-acclaimed-nine-year-old-vocalist-nov-21\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Opera Theater to feature acclaimed nine-year-old vocalist, Nov. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tProduction of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” includes performance by Alexis Clare McKinnon<\/i><\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 9, 2010 \u2013 When the 溏心vlog免费B站 Opera Theater brings the beloved holiday classic, Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera Amahl and the Night Visitors to stage later this month, they also will bring the acclaimed nine-year-old vocalist Alexis Clare McKinnon of Lincoln, the youngest singer to perform in a college opera anywhere in the country.<\/p>\n


\nMcKinnon, who will perform the title role, already has an impressive list of performing credits that include her appearance as the opening act for a local performance by Grammy-award winning songwriter, Bill Harley. She has been studying with the director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Opera Program, Professor Rene de la Garza, since she was five years old.<\/p>\n


\nThe performance will be on Sunday, November 21 at 3 pm in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, 105 Upper College Road, Kingston. General admission is $10, or $5 for students with ID, on a first-come basis starting an hour before the performance. Please note this concert is likely to sell out, so come early!<\/p>\n


\nFirst televised in 1951 and broadcast annually on NBC for many years, the holiday opera tells the story of a poor crippled boy and his mother who are visited by the Magi. McKinnon plays the role of Amahl and is joined by 溏心vlog免费B站 opera students and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Choir. The cast includes: Mother, Elise DeFusco of Wakefield; King Kaspar, Billy Ray Poli of South Hadley, Mass.; Melchior, Devon Morin of North Kingstown; King Balthazar, Sulaymaan Miles of Newport; and Page–Sean Marsh of Hopkinton. The performance is directed by Rene de la Garza, with conductor Mark Conley.<\/p>\n


\nThe concert will also include scene selections from four other Menotti operas, including one of his two Pulitzer Prize-winners, The Consul, with special consultation by illusionist Marc Gilday; The Telephone or L\u2019Amour \u00e0 Trois; The Medium, and Menotti\u2019s science fiction opera commissioned and performed in Germany, Help, Help, the Globoliinks. Music will be provided by pianist Patrice Newman and a blended orchestra of professional and student musicians.<\/p>\n


\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center Concert Hall is handicap-accessible, and parking is available in the lot behind the building, off Bills Road.<\/p>\n


\nFor more information, contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Music at 874-2431 or check the department website at: www.uri.edu\/artsci\/mus<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” includes performance by Alexis Clare McKinnon KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 9, 2010 \u2013 When the 溏心vlog免费B站 Opera Theater brings the beloved holiday classic, Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera Amahl and the Night Visitors to stage later this month, they also will bring the acclaimed nine-year-old vocalist Alexis Clare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}