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Opera Singers Perform For Jamestown Rotary Club

The Rotary Club of Jamestown was recently entertained by members of the Opera Department of Chautauqua Institution.

Carol Rausch returned for the 21st time to accompany two young opera performers.

Rausch has served as music administrator/chorus master, overseeing the musical components of the Chautauqua Opera company and the Young Artist Program. She holds degrees from Indiana University and Ohio State University and pursued a year of study at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Brussels, Belgium, as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow. She is also the chorus master/music administrator for the New Orleans Opera.

Performing were Kaitlyn “Kate” Stavinoha, soprano, from the Houston Opera Company and Sidney Ragland, tenor, from the San Francisco Conservatory. Most recently they have performed in the three opera trilogy at Chautauqua and also the Pops Concert in the institution’s Amphitheatre.

Stavinhoa performed “Monica’s Waltz” from an American opera and Ragland performed three songs from poems of Langston Hughes and the duo finished with a duet from the American opera, “Street Scene” by Kurt Weil, written in 1946.

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