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 Lush's BBQ while listening to opera and art song in an open-air, relaxed community setting.
Program (subject to change): Songs of Nature and Love
Widmung (Robert Schumann)
Selections from Drei Lieder, Op. 22 (Erich Korngold)
Was du mir bist?
Welt ist stille eingeschlafen
Die Einsame (Hanz Pfitzner)
A Chloris (Reynaldo Hahn)
Ah! Lève-toi, solieil! from Roméo et Juliette (Charles Gounod)
La coccinelle (Georges Bizet)
La fleur que tu m’avais jetée from Carmen (Georges Bizet)
Notre amour (Gabriel Faure)
Ô nature, pleine de grâce from Werther (Jules Massenet)
Sole e Amore (Giacomo Puccini)
Casa mia, casa mia (Giacomo Puccini)
Un di, all’azzurro spazio from Andrea Chénier (Umberto Giordano)
Ecrin (Cecile Chaminade)
Bonne humeur (Cecile Chaminade)
La rosa y el sauce (Carlos Gustavino)
Selections from Browning Songs, Op. 22 (Amy Beach)
Ah, Love, but a day!
The Year’s at the Spring
Performer Biographies:
Ellie Niver, soprano (Guest Artist), is a native of Salem, Oregon, and holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance from Brigham Young University. While at BYU, she appeared in numerous leading roles, including Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Valencienne in The Merry Widow. She also performed as Frasquita in a semi-staged production of Carmen with the Reno Philharmonic. In 2022 and 2023, Ellie was selected to attend the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, founded by mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick. There, she worked closely with coaches including Beatrice Benzi of Teatro alla Scala, and John Parr, head of music at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Now based in Utah, Ellie continues to perform while maintaining a vibrant private teaching studio.
David Silvano (Guest Artist) is a Peruvian-American tenor at home in a wide variety of styles. David 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. David has performed in roles such as Don José in Carmen, Martin in Copland's The Tender Land, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and excerpts as Rodolfo in La Bohème and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. In the Summer of 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. In addition, he has performed as a soloist in various concert works. During the 2023 season, David was a Resident Artist at Indianapolis Opera, where he covered the role of Don José and sang the role of El Remendado in Carmen. A native of Colorado, David holds a B.M. from Colorado Mesa University and an M.M. from Colorado State University where he studied with John Robert Lindsey. www.davidsilvano.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 (Director of Development, Park City Opera) 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. Lisl served 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. 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
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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