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In addition to her vocal pursuits, Jennifer is an elementary music teacher in the Fairfax County Public Schools. Tom O'Grady, Pasha Selim,Guard , Sergeant Tom O’Grady is a life long opera enthusiast. His ensemble singing has included Faure’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Rutter’s Requiem, and Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir. He also sings as a tenor supporting the World Children’s Choir, as well as recording their concerts. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, he practices law in northern Virginia as a corporate lawyer representing technology companies in corporate and technology transactions when not pursuing his love of music.



This fall, he played Luis in the Mount Vernon Players' production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers. Nikki Lawrence, mezzo-soprano, Mother, , is making her debut with Bel Cantanti in the role of Mother. Area she has done workshops with Richard Crittenden opera met singing roles of Augusta, Carmen, Charlotte and Idamante in the scenes from the operas The Ballad of Baby Doe, Carmen, Werther and Idomeneo. Nikki moved to the area from upstate New York after working at Astor’s Beechwood Mansion in Newport, Rl.

I don’t think this always includes costumes, but I think intent matters. Mickey Rooney’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is offensive as it is written, even if it had not been played by a white person in makeup that mocks the physical appearance of Japanese people. The makeup is just one part of a completely horrid portrayal of an Asian person. Since then, I’ve become aware that this opera makes some people uncomfortable, and I understand why.
Cynthia Ballentine, mezzo-soprano, is thrilled to be making her Bel Cantanti debut as the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Cynthia Ballentine has performed with several opera companies across the country, including Hawaii Opera Theater, Opera Colorado, the Washington Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Summer Opera Theatre and the Sarasota Opera. Some of her 28 operatic roles include Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Charlotte in Werther, Giulietta in Tales of Hoffman, Mercedes in Carmen, La Principessa in Suor Angelica, and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel. Favorable reviews of her performances have appeared in such publications as Opera News and The Washington Post. In the DC area, she has appeared in concert with the Capitol Hill Choral Society, the Culpeper-Piedmont Choral Society, the Landon Symphonette, and the Hines-Lee Opera. Cynthia recently was a winner in the 2005 Paul Robeson competition.

There should be an open dialogue with minority communities, but the opera should focus more on listening. The Mikado does not show this kind of nuance with its portrayal of Asian culture, because it never really was about that. It wants to satirize British society, and a thoughtful portrayal of Japanese society would not have achieved this. Some critics of the critics pushed back by comparing protests against The Mikado to attempts to ban books.
A Galileo Galaxy 816 network processor provides control over the audio system in the concert hall. After 12years of marriage, me and my husband has been into one quarrel or the other until he finally left me and moved to California to be with another woman. I felt my life was over and my kids thought they would