Two singers have gone from performing in drafty Mills Hall on the UW-Madison campus to singing for a world class opera company in the windy city.
At noon this Saturday, Jan. 7, soprano Emily Birsan and tenor James Kryshak performed a recital under the auspices of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. (The full name is the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series at Merit School of Music, part of The Lyric Opera of Chicago's Renée Fleming Initiative.)
Birsan and Kryshak both earned masters degrees in music (opera performance) at the UW-Madison School of Music.
Birsan and Kryshak performed at Anne and Howard Gottlieb Hall with pianist Yasuko Oura. Both are ensemble members of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
According to a press release from the Lyric, the hour-long recital was part of Merit's ongoing Live from Gottlieb Performance Series and is presented exclusively to the Merit community.
In November, Birsan performed at the Lyric in Mussoursky’s "Boris Godunov;" this month, Kryshak plays a priest in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," running through Jan. 22. And Maestro John DeMain of the Madison Symphony Orchestra conducts "Showboat" for the Lyric opening on Feb. 12.
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