A Small Preview of my Fall Course at SRJC

I am busy finishing up the preparations for my new Passion for Opera course that I will teach this Fall (September 30- November 4) at Santa Rosa Junior College. The class is titled:  “Bringing Down the House” and you can read a full description of it on this website under 2010 Courses. To register call 707-527-4371

I always discover many new and exciting singers each year,  and one of the singers I will be featuring in the Fall is the Bulgarian soprano, Alexandrina Pendatchanska.  Pendatchanska  is blessed with a beautiful, distinctive, agile, expressive voice that has grown by leaps and bounds in the approximately 20 years since she was 17 years old when this video was made.

The video is introduced by the great Bugarian dramatic soprano, Ghena Dimitrova, who recently died.  It is a rare singer who can manage the astonishing dramatic coloratura roles by Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini.  Here Pendatschanska proves that if she could sing like this at the age of 17, it’s little wonder that she’s a star in Europe. The puzzling question, of course, is WHY aren’t the U.S. Opera houses picking her up?

See what you think…there will be more of  Pendatchanska in the Fall,  and I predict you won’t forget her soon!  Here she “brings down the house” with E strano…Sempre libera from Verdi’s La Traviata