The Coming of the Flood

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Baritone Paul Soper is delighted to return to sing with the Falmouth Chorale. He made his operatic debut with Houston Grand Opera as the Innkeeper in Manon and has sung comprimario and principal roles with Boston Lyric Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Naples (FL) and the National Touring Company of New York City Opera.Recent highlights include debuts as Ariodate in Xerxes at the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan Tutte with Opera Providence, Guglielmo in Cosi and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Commonwealth Opera, Jesus in Bach's St. John Passion with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, the Priest at SpeakEasy Stage’s critically acclaimed production of The Light in the Piazza and Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow with Cape Cod Opera. Paul has collaborated and performed new works with Boston's Intermezzo Chamber Opera and has been a featured soloist with Joseph Summer’s acclaimed Shakespeare Concerts at Jordan Hall. Mr. Soper is also a member of Opera-to-Go, New England’s interactive and improvisational opera outreach program.Future engagements this season include the title role in Don Giovanni with MetroWest Opera. 

Mezzo-soprano Tania Mandzy earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and her master’s of music degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. While in England, Ms. Mandzy was a young artist with both the British Youth Opera and the Britten–Pears School. She performed widely with British choral groups in diverse works, including Mozart's Requiem, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Handel's Dixit Dominus, and Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius. In 2006 she was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in a Proms Composer's Portrait performing the UK premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's Renka I. As a resident artist at Ohio Light Opera, Ms. Mandzy has performed Lady Angela (Patience), the title role in Iolanthe, and Estrelda (El Capitan). Other recent roles include Orestes (La Belle Helene), Chava (Fiddler on the Roof), Lazuli (L'Étoile), Pitti-Sing (Mikado), Nancy (Albert Herring), and Rosina (The Barber of Seville). In New England, Ms. Mandzy has appeared as a concert soloist for Opera Providence and the Granite State Symphony Orchestra. In November 2010, she performed Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Nashua and Lexington Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Mandzy won first place in the 2009 Division V Boston Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition and was a finalist in the 2010 Irma Cooper Opera Columbus and Charles Lynam competitions.

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Kimberly Ayers is professional musician and a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She has been in operas, musical theater productions, choirs, bands and orchestras all over the world. She has studied with Julia Faulkner, Karen Holvik, Paulina Stark, Marjorie Melnick, Heidi Skok, Robert Breault, Ubaldo Fabbri, Patricia Weinmann, John Greer, Tim Steele, Michael Strauss, Jean Anderson Collier and John Oliver. She started performing the national anthem at the age of 12 and has sung for various venues including the Boston Red Sox, University of Massachusetts Marching Band under George Parks, University of Massachusetts Sporting Event, Stafford Motor Speedway, Springfield Falcons and Thompson Motor Speedway. Masters of Music from the New England Conservatory Bachelor's of Music from the University of Massachusetts

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With a voice described as "rich and resonant", mezzo-soprano Eileen Christiansen is a Boston-based singer of oratorio, opera, and art song. Ms. Christiansen has performed as a soloist with the Wellesley Choral Society, The Salisbury Singers, Polymnia Choral Society, and The Boston Cecilia. Her notable solo performances include Handel's Messiah, M. Haydn Requiem, J. Haydn's Paukenmesse, Beethoven's Mass in C-Major, Adams' Grand Pianola Music, Mozart's Missa Brevis in F Major (K192), and Schubert's Ständchen ("Zögernd leise"). She was a semi-finalist in the professional division of the NATS-Boston chapter Song and Aria Festival 2011, and she also performed as a soloist in the 2009 "The Singers' Voice" concert, a performance to benefit the Boston Singers' Relief Fund. Ms. Christiansen studies voice with Janice Giampa and has worked with coaches Daniel Wyneken, Dorothy Travis, and Murray Kidd.

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Christie Lee Gibson is an actress, opera singer, and creator/producer/director/coach of musical-theatrical happenings. She has performed recently with the Juventas New Music Ensemble’s Opera Project, the Apollinaire Theatre, and regularly with OperaHub and the Fort Point Theatre Channel, where she also frequently directs. This fall she will be performing with the LostWax new media performance ensemble in Providence and at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester in A Christmas Carol. She is also collaborating with composer Erin Huelskamp on writing a chamber opera entitled The Ten-Block Walk: An Old-Person’s Odyssey. B.A. Brown University.

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Soprano Kimberly Moller received her bachelor's degree in vocal performance at Webster University in 2008. In 2011, she will complete her master's degree (also in vocal performance) at Boston University, where she studies with Penelope Bitzas. Kimberly is on the artist roster of Boston Metro Opera and performed in their inaugural season concerts. In 2010 she appeared as Adele in Concord Opera's spring production of Die Fledermaus. In the fall of 2010 She was the soprano soloist in Vivaldi's Nulla in mundo pax sincera with Boston University Baroque Orchestra, as well as in Haydn's Mass in Time of War and Schumann's Requiem fur Mignon with Boston University Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Orchestra.

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Soprano Erin M. Smith has recently relocated to Boston after completing her studies in the Mid-West. In Boston, Erin has portrayed the title role in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen and Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with (BOC), Pamina in The Magic Flute with MetroWest Opera, Geraldine in A Hand of Bridge with Boston Metro Opera and Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Del West. Erin also premiered two works by composer Timothy A. Davis: I am Not Yours, a song cycle for soprano and string quartet and The Terraces of Purgatory for soprano and chamber orchestra with the Boston New Music Initiative.