Join Park City Opera for a performance and presentation at the Newcomers Club of Greater Park City. Enjoy coffee and begin your morning with live music!
This event is free and open to members and prospective members of the Newcomers Club. For more information about the Newcomers Club of Greater Park City, click here.
Program (subject to change): Arias Over Coffee
Selections from Carmen (Georges Bizet)
Habanera
Votre toast
Selections from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini)
Una voce poco fa
Largo al factotum
Dunque io son
Perfomer Biographies:
Lauded as a “musical and theatrical delight” on stage (Colorado Gazette), Sarah Neal (2025 Mainstage Artist) is a mezzo-soprano from South Bend, Indiana with a passion for accessible, interdisciplinary performing arts. Sarah is a Resident Young Artist for the 2024-25 Season with Opera Memphis, performing as Mercédès in Bizet’s Carmen (Carmen cover), in Gregg Kallor’s new solo chamber opera The Tell-Tale Heart, and finally as Endimione in La Calisto. This coming summer, Sarah will join Charlottesville Opera to both cover and perform the title role of Carmen. Sarah has received awards from competitions including the Dallas Opera Lone Star Competition, the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and the American Council for Polish Culture’s Sembrich Vocal Competition. In previous years, Sarah has sung as an Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera and appeared with multiple chamber groups, including Ars Lyrica Houston and Mercury Chamber Orchestra. Sarah received their Master of Music from the University of Houston where they performed notable roles, including the title role in La Cenerentola, Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Nancy (Albert Herring), and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro). Outside of the rehearsal room, Sarah can be found tending to their houseplants as if they were children, knitting for hours on end, and reading on their porch swing. Sarah will be singing the role of Rosina in Park City Opera’s upcoming August production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Born and raised in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, Jake Stamatis has performed a variety of roles on the operatic stage. He has charmed audiences in such roles as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and Marcello in La Bohème. His varied repertoire also includes Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, La Bête in La belle et la bête (Glass), and The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance. Jake has been a principal artist at Sarasota Opera, a fellow at the Music Academy of the West, an emerging artist at Seagle Music Festival, and an artist in residence with Tri-Cities Opera and Opera Memphis. Jake received his Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Susquehanna University, and his Masters Degree in Opera from Binghamton University. Mark will be singing the role of Figaro in Park City Opera’s upcoming production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. www.jakestamatis.com
Benjamin Beckman (Artistic Director, Park City Opera) is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Compositional career highlights include performances on the BBC Proms, Tanglewood Music Festival, and Royal Concertgebouw Summer Concerts, 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. As a pianist, assistant conductor, and vocal coach, Benjamin 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. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he manages the conservatory’s new music ensemble, the Thornton Edge. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com
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