Park City Opera and Park Meadows Country Club present an outdoor evening of music that will feature arias, duets, and trios from some of opera’s greatest hits. Doors will open at 5:30 PM and the performance will begin at 7:30 PM. The event is open to the public with a ticket purchase of $120, which includes heavy hors d’oeuvres. Email mcouncilman@parkmeadowscc.com to purchase a ticket, or RSVP here and pay at the door.

Program (subject to change):

Selections from Gounod’s Roméo and Juliette:
Je veux vivre
Ah, leve-toi soleil
Ange adorable

Selections from Copland’s The Tender Land:
Once I’d thought I’d never grow tall as this fence
The world seems still tonight
In love? In love?

Selections from Lehar’s Die lustige Witwe:
Vilja-Lied
Lippen schweigen

Selections from Puccini’s La bohème:
Che gelida manina
Si, mi chiamano Mimi
Soave fanciulla
Quando m’en vo
Donde lieta usci

Selections from Verdi’s La traviata:
Deh! Miei bollenti spiriti
Sempre libera

Performer Biographies

Intentional and intuitive in her artistry, Lena Goldstein is an American soprano who aspires to push the needle in classical music through entrepreneurial initiatives that put artists in the driver’s seats of their careers. She is currently pursuing her M.Mus at the San Francisco Conservatory as the recipient of the Samual Clark Scholarship, and recently graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in molecular biology. Lena’s recent appearances include with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Opera Department and New Music Ensemble, Chicago Summer Opera, Songfest, Opera Theatre of Yale, Yale Baroque Opera, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra. She is a versatile performer of opera with recent roles including The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), La Fée (Cendrillon), Eurinda (Doriclea), Maurya (Riders to the Sea), Maggie (The Gift of the Magi), Serpina (La serva padrona), and Lady Angela (Patience). Her concert performances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, Muhly’s The Beauty of the Day, and premieres of Carlson’s The Disguise and Beckman’s Hartley Songs.  As an artistic administrator, Lena directed SFCM’s Hot Air Music Festival, works for the institution’s Department of Professional Development, and directed the Opera Theatre of Yale. She is interested in the intersection of visual arts and music, and was previously a tour guide at the Yale Center for British Art and intern for the Park City Arts Council. www.lenagoldstein.com.

Winner of the 2021 Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts from Yale University and recipient of a 2020 Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Lisl Wangermann is a soprano who has performed with the CIM Opera Theater, Opera Western Reserve, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Opera Theatre of Yale College, and the Yale Baroque Opera Project. From baroque to modern opera, Lisl has portrayed a variety of roles, including Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Alcina (Alcina), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Cendrillon (Cendrillon), Della (The Gift of the Magi), Madeline (La chute de la maison Usher), and more. Lisl has also proven herself as an effective arts administrator, serving as the Managing Director for the Opera Theatre of Yale College (OTYC) in 2019. During her tenure, OTYC expanded its season from two shows to four and doubled the number of singers involved in each season. After graduating from Yale in 2021, Lisl moved to Cleveland to pursue her master’s in voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She served as the Residence Director at CIM for the 2021-2022 school year and joined the team of the baroque ensemble Apollo’s Fire as Development Assistant. Lisl earned her master’s degree in 2023 and is currently continuing her vocal studies at CIM as an Artist’s Diploma candidate. www.lislwangermannsoprano.com.

David Silvano is an emerging Peruvian-American tenor with a powerful, yet vibrant and flexible voice and a natural talent for acting. Mr. Silvano recently made his role debut as The Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Mobile Opera, and is excited to be among the first to perform with Park City Opera. In 2022, he sang the role of Theodore Billings in the staged premiere of Clint Borzoni's The Copper Queen with Marble City Opera where he was praised by Arts Knoxville for bringing "a deliciously romantic lyrical side" to the character. During the 2023 season, Mr. Silvano was a Resident Artist at Indianapolis Opera, where he covered the role of Don José and sang the role of El Remendado in Carmen. https://www.davidsilvano.com/

Benjamin Beckman is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Compositional career highlights include performances on the BBC Proms and Tanglewood Music Festival and by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and Yale Symphony Orchestra. His 70-minute chamber opera Passage won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize for the best-submitted thesis in the music major at Yale, from which he recently matriculated. As a pianist, assistant conductor, and vocal coach, Beckman has worked for the Sarasota Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Opera Company of Middlebury, Chicago Summer Opera, and Classic Lyric Arts France and Italy. While a student at Yale, Beckman was the Artistic Director of both the Opera Theater of Yale College and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, through which he facilitated the premieres of 21 student compositions. This fall, Beckman will pursue graduate studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he will manage the conservatory’s new music ensemble, the Thornton Edge. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com.