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YEAR 2000 Productions

Singer's Choice:  A Bare Bones Benefit


On October 28, 2000, the company of First Coast Opera presented a concert called Singers' Choice:  A Bare Bones Benefit in order to raise funds for the December production of Amahl and the Night Visitors.  Performers sang pieces from their repertoire, representing a broad spectrum of styles from opera, through musical theater to country.

ACCOMPANISTS
Shannon McKay, Music Director of First Coast Opera, principal organist at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, FL
Rodgin Arpon of Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida

Anthony E Fast, narrator
Robert Samuels, Paul Shelton & Myanna Jordan, lighting

PERFORMERS
Skylar Bailey                                             Dorothy Jean Bush
Tiffany Bussard                                        Weyman Hudgins           
Kris Kelly                                                   Jan Larson
Jane Mathis                                              Barbara Norris
Carl Peters                                                Stephanie Salter
Greer Sullivan                                            Pamela Tsitos
Stephanie Walter                                       Anita Raynelle Williams
Marcia Winnard

                                   

Weyman Hudgins singing                  Carl Peters, II, singing                        Skye Bailey  singing 
"C'est moi" from Camelot           "It was a very good year"                    "Honey, I'm home"

                          

Anita Raynelle Williams               Barbara Norris & Weyman Hudgins             Dorothy Jean Bush
singing "Voi che sapete"              sing "Bess, you is my woman now"                singing "Mon coeur 
from Le Nozze di Figaro        from Porgy and Bess                       s'ouvre a ta voix" 
                                                                                                                  from Samson and Delilah

                       

Tiffany Bussard (left) and                         From left:  Greer Sullivan, Kris Kelly and Jane Mathis, 
Stephanie Salter (right) after                      who make up the women's singing group Vivace, sing
"Recordare" from the Verdi                                     "I can't give you anything but love".
Requiem.