There will be an afternoon of songs and duets when Baritone Timothy Robert Blevins comes to the Yreka Community Theater on Sunday, October 18th at 3:00 PM. The Red Scarf Society for the Performing Arts is sponsoring the program that will feature songs from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and other popular opera selections. The former Mt. Shasta resident is a a graduate of The Julliard School and has appeared at some of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, including the prestigious Grand Théâtre de Genève, where he created ‘Miguel' in the world premiere of Tania Leon's new opera The Scourge of Hyacinths. His New York City Opera debut was as Crown in Porgy and Bess.
His ability to cross from one musical genre to another, has aided Blevins to work across the board in many aspects of the entertainment world. In 2004, Walt Disney released its newest animated film, “Home on the Range”, which featured Mr. Blevins as a singer in the soundtrack. In 2006, he sang for the soundtrack of yet another Walt Disney film called, “Enchanted” where he sings the step out role of the steel drum player.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago presented Timothy Blevins in the world premiere of Anthony Davis' new opera Amistad, singing the title role.
Additional operatic credits include his debut in the title role in Mozart's masterpiece Le Nozze di Figaro at Toledo Opera, and repeated for Virginia Opera; Escamillo in Carmen at Connecticut Opera, he joined Opera Ontario for their annual POPERA! (Popular operatic arias and ensembles in concert), and he recreated Crown for both Virginia Opera and Opera IllinoisMichigan Opera Theatre, Giovanni Paisiello's comic chamber opera The Maestro, a U.S. premiere at the Loyola Marymount University, Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Polish National Symphony Orchestra at Fort de France (Martinique), Porgy and Bess at the Pablo Casal's Festival in Puerto Rico, and as Ford in Verdi's Falstaff with ‘Luciano Pavarotti and Friends' at the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
On the concert stage he has appeared with the New York Ragtime Ensemble; with The Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Berkshire Choral Institute (MA), the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; he has presented solo recitals in New York at both the Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), and the 92nd Street Y; and has toured extensively as a soloist with the Boys' Choir of Harlem.
Timothy Blevins made his Broadway debut in 1993 as Sgt. John in Miss Saigon, a role he repeated in the long-running Stuttgart Production. Additional Off-Broadway and Broadway productions include Showboat, both Sweet Adeline and One Touch of Venus for the New York City Center's Encore Series, the new Disney production of King David for the re-opening of the New Amsterdam Theatre, and at Lincoln Center's Miller Theater he appeared as Husky Miller in the Goodspeed Opera House production of Carmen Jones. He has also made a guest appearance on “As the World Turns”.
Suzanne Vinnik will be joining Mr. Blevins on stage. Her musicality is unmistakable! By the time she was ten she earned the nickname ‘Las Vegas’ Littlest Diva’ where she performed at nearly every resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
During the 2009-2010 season Vinnik will premiere the role of Giselda in the first fully staged performance in North America of Montemezzi’s L’incantesimo at Pittsburgh Opera Theatre under the direction of Jonathan Eaton. She will also sing her first Musetta from Puccini’s La Boheme with Nevada Opera Theatre, and make her highly anticipated Carnegie Hall Debut in a solo recital in Weill Recital Hall featuring specially arranged music by Ricky Ian Gordon and world premieres of several Thomas Pasatieri works.
Carol Houston will be the accompanist.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students. They are available at Nature's Kitchen, Yreka Chamber of Commerce, Surroundings, Village Books in Mt. Shasta, Scott Valley Drug and Ashland Drug.
For further information call 842-4656.
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