Naomi Merer and pianist Mandee Madrid-Sikich will be performing a recital of songs by all women composers, including Clara Schumann, Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, Libby Larsen, Vítězslava Kaprálová, and Ilse Weber.
Naomi performs as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Santa Barbara Choral Society under the baton of Dr. Eugene Rogers.
Naomi, a 2022 Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation winner, will perform Come scoglio from Mozart’s Così fan tutte as a guest artist during the finals of the competition. This is a private event.
Naomi performs as a soprano soloist during the Santa Barbara Choral Society’s annual gala.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://sbcs.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/sbcs/eventRegistration.jsp?event=92&
Performing Dater 12 and 12B in Opera Santa Barbara’s production of Michael Ching’s SPEED DATING TONIGHT!
More information and tickets here: https://www.operasb.org/events/event/speed-dating-tonight/
Performing Dater 12 and 12B in Opera Santa Barbara’s production of Michael Ching’s SPEED DATING TONIGHT!
More information and tickets here: https://www.operasb.org/events/event/speed-dating-tonight/
Naomi will give a lecture on her research and culminating dissertation, Get thee to an asylum: reflecting on the evolution of mental illness and its portrayal in Thomas’ operatic mad scene, which discusses Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 Hamlet, and especially his characterization of Ophélie (his version of Shakespeare’s Ophelia) and her mad scene.
Additionally, Naomi will perform Ophélie’s Act 4 mad and suicide scenes as well as Jake Heggie’s Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia in collaboration with pianist Mandee Madrid Sikich.
UCSB YouTube channel. Link TBA.
Premieres on Saturday, May 8 at 4pm PST. Will remain viewable on YouTube for the foreseeable future.
In the PASF competition finals, Naomi will perform “Ved’ mé kroky” from Sylvie Bodorová’s Legenda o Kateřině z Redernu (2014). The competition finals will be viewable on YouTube (link and dates TBA).
Featured singer in Mandee Madrik Sikich’s Dichterliebe on her Liedernerd Instagram: @liedernerd.
Date published TBA.
Performing the role of Donna Elvira in University of California, Santa Barbara’s remote concert production of Don Giovanni in Italian.
Music director: Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian.
Pianists: Dr. John Ballerino and Erik Lawrence
On the UCSB Department of Music’s YouTube channel: tinyurl.com/ucsbmusicyoutube
This photo was taken during Prague Summer Night’s 2019 production of Don Giovanni. Copyright Classical Movements.
Performing the role of Zerlina in Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival’s production of Dn Giovanni. Conducted by John Nardolillo, directed by Pat Diamond
Estates Theatre, Prague
Performing the role of Kateřina in a scene from Sylvie Bodorová’s Legenda o Kateřině z Redernu (in Czech). Conducted by Alana Chan, directed by Mac Welch.
Divadlo Oskara Nedbala, Tábor.
Soloist and section leader in Santa Barbara Choral Society’s Annual Gala, themed Springtime in Paris, featuring French music.
Rockwood Woman’s Club, Santa Barbara
Performing the role of Sarah Good in Opera Santa Barbara’s production of The Crucible. Conducted by Kostis Protopapas and directed by Stephanie Havey.
Performing the role of Sarah Good in Opera Santa Barbara’s production of The Crucible. Conducted by Kostis Protopapas and directed by Stephanie Havey.
At the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.
Performing the role of Sarah Good in Opera Santa Barbara’s production of The Crucible. Conducted by Kostis Protopapas and directed by Stephanie Havey.
At the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.
Chorus in Santa Barbara Symphony’s Verdi’s Requiem. Conducted by Nir Kabaretti.
Granada Theatre.
Chorus in Santa Barbara Symphony’s Verdi’s Requiem. Conducted by Nir Kabaretti.
Granada Theatre.
Singing in the chorus of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s Amadeus. Conducted by Dirk Brossé.
Granada Theatre
Singing in the chorus of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s Amadeus. Conducted by Dirk Brossé.
Granada Theatre
Performing Miss Phoebe in the United States premier of Léhar's The Mock Marriage. Conducted by Maxim Kuzin and directed by Steven Daigle.
Lobero Theatre
Performing Miss Phoebe in the United States premier of Léhar's The Mock Marriage. Conducted by Maxim Kuzin and directed by Steven Daigle.
Lobero Theatre
In collaboration with pianist Asher Severini, Ms. Merer will be performing a Mary Stuart-themed recital for her DMA at UCSB. Works by Joachim Raff, Richard Wagner, Carl Loewe, Robert Schumann, Edward Elgar, and Gaetano Donizetti.
Karl Geiringer Hall
In collaboration with pianist Asher Severini, Ms. Merer will be performing a Mary Stuart-themed recital for the Lompoc Music Association. Works by Joachim Raff, Richard Wagner, Carl Loewe, Robert Schumann, Edward Elgar, and Gaetano Donizetti.
Valley of the Flowers United Church of Christ
Die Zweite Dame in Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Music Festival's production of Die Zauberflöte (in German)
The Estates Theatre
Performing "Whatever happened to my part" from Spamalot in Prague Summer Nights Young Artists Program Cabaret Concert
Reduta Jazz Club Prague
Performing Mařenka in a scene from Prodaná nevěsta (The Bartered Bride) by Bedřich Smetana (in Czech).
Oskara Nedbala Divadlo
Soprano Soloist and Section Leader in Santa Barbara Choral Society's 70th Anniversary Gala
Rockwood Women's Club, Santa Barbara
Soloist and soprano section leader in concert led by Nelson Huber.
All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Church
Performing Monica's Waltz in the finals of the PASF Competition. Not open to public.
Fess Parker's Double Tree
