Opera in the Park is a free outdoor concert series at the City Park bandstand. Set against Park City’s stunning mountain backdrop, we invite you to bring a picnic, gather your loved ones (dogs included), and enjoy opera and vocal chamber music in an open-air, relaxed community setting.
Program (subject to change): Meet the Singers of PCO’s Barber of Seville
Una voce poco fa from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini)
Habanera from Carmen (Georges Bizet)
Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Riez, allez from Don Quichotte (Jules Massanet)
Las locas por amor (Joaquín Turina)
Adiós Granada (Tomás Barrera y Rafael Calleja)
The haughty snail king (Jake Heggie)
I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi (Franz Liszt)
Stars from Les Misérables
Love to me from The Light in the Piazza
Selections from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini)
Ecco ridente in cielo
A un dottor della mia sorta
Contro un cor che accende amore
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 production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Italian-American tenor Jordan Costa (2025 Mainstage Artist) is an alumnus of the Yale and Eastman Schools of Music and young artist programs including Music Academy of the West, Glimmerglass, Sarasota Opera, Central City Opera, Virginia Opera, and Nashville Opera. In 2021 Jordan made his professional debut as Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore with Opera in Williamsburg. Jordan later reprised the role of Nemorino with Yale Opera. While a Studio Artist with Sarasota Opera, Jordan covered Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Armand in Massenet’s Thérèse. Jordan also sang his first title role as a returning guest artist in Yale Opera’s production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory. He covered Tamino, and performed as Monostatos, in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as a Nashville Opera Mary Ragland Emerging Artist. This season, Jordan returned to Virginia Opera as a principal artist to perform Don Ottavio in their production of Don Giovanni. Park City Opera’s production of The Barber of Seville marks Jordan’s fourth production singing Count Almaviva, having performed the role recently with Virginia Opera, Opera in the Pines, and as a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. www.jordancosta.com
Mark Covey Barrera (2025 Mainstage Artist), bass-baritone, has performed on stages in America, Germany, France, and Italy. His recent roles include Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Dulcamara in Elisir d'amore, Escamillo in Carmen, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro, and Rambaldo in La Rondine. He has appeared at venues such as Festival Napa Valley, Opera Company of Middlebury, and Opera San Antonio, among others. Mark was a finalist in the Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year competition. In addition to his performing career, Mark is an accomplished stage director – he has directed productions of Die Zauberflöte, Dido and Aeneas, and various operatic scene concerts. Mark is also an accomplished classical guitarist, having studied with the renowned Christopher Parkening. Currently, he serves as Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Mark will be singing the role of Bartolo in Park City Opera’s upcoming production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.
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
Presented in partnership with Mountain Town Music.
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