6. A Waterbird
Debra Rentz, soprano, is Chair of the Voice Division at Ohio University. She received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Music History from Illinois State University and a Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Illinois. Rentz has performed extensively in opera, operetta, oratorio, recital, and orchestral concerts. She has been featured as a soloist in numerous oratorios, including Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Mass in Time of War, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Operatic roles include Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos. In addition, Debra has considerable experience performing Gilbert and Sullivan. Other operetta performances include the American stage premiere of Emmerich Kalman’s Duchess of Chicago with Chicago Light Opera and Josephine in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore
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March 17, 2021
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UW-Madison doctoral student Justin Kroll is a cast member of the University Opera production What s Past is Prologue: The Unfinished American Conversation.
University Opera returns with a spring production mixing filmed and staged elements.
Whatâs Past is Prologue examines history while considering current events. Texts by or about U.S. figures â Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman â are set to songs or song cycles by composers Christopher Berg, Margaret Bonds, Tom Cipullo, Michael Daugherty, Scott Gendel, Jennifer Higdon, John Kander, Steven Mark Kohn, Ned Rorem and Gwyneth Walker. Accompanying panel discussions examine how the legacy of hierarchical structures in the arts is changing, and the intersection of cancel culture and Susan B. Anthony s views on race
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host a live-streamed performance celebrating Women’s History Month at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 14.
The performance, “We Sing! A Celebration of Women’s Heritage,” can be viewed via YouTube at this link. The event is presented by Dr. Lorissa Mason, director of choral activities, and the UA Little Rock Choirs in the Department of Music.
“This program has been a long time coming,” Mason said. “Originally planned for fall of 2020 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment ratification granting women the right to vote, current circumstances pushed the concert back to March of 2021, equally appropriate to celebrate Women’s Heritage Month.”
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