Sips and Serenades

You’re Invited!

Join us for an intimate and elegant evening in support of the opera at the stunning home of Faith Tiberio Dougherty and Daniel F. Dougherty, overlooking the picturesque Matanzas River.

Guests will enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres and decadent desserts, along with wine, beer, and bubbly, while savoring live performances by pianist Keith Teepen, The Mikado conductor and baritone Sean Christopher Stork and soprano Ali Molnar. The evening will also feature a curated silent auction.

Tickets are $100 per guest. Space is limited for this celebration and we encourage you to make your reservations today.

With gratitude for your support, $50 of each ticket helps fund this season's productions and programs.

Meet the Performers

KEITH TEEPEN

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Collaborative pianist Keith Teepen, has performed in Europe, Asia, South America, and throughout North America. He is a multi-faceted musician having collaborated with a diverse spectrum of celebrated artists including: tenor, Bryan Hymel; Broadway stars, Laura Osnes and Donna Vivino; trumpeter, Tine Thing Helseth and tubist, Øystein Baadsvik.

In addition to his performance schedule, Keith is a respected educator. He taught on the piano faculty at Pró-Música Music Festival in Juiz de Fora, Brazil and has held collaborative piano positions at DePauw University School of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and the University of North Dakota. Keith has taught master classes in both the solo and collaborative piano areas in cities across the world. He has given lectures discussing the importance of a collaborative pianist in both Asia and the United States.

Keith is currently working at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL as the Tom Kenan Assistant Professor of Piano.

ALI MOLNAR

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Wisconsin native lyric-soprano Ali Molnar performs with numerous companies across the state of Florida in various genres from classical to popular music, including opera and musical theater. She has a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance with an emphasis in opera and musical theater from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Notable roles include Jeannie in The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Kate Monster in Avenue Q, Cindy Lou in The Marvelous Wonderettes and Winter Wonderettes, Nimue in Camelot, and The Foreign Woman in The Consul.

Ali performs with such auspicious groups as Gaylord Palms Resort, TheatreWorks Florida, Busch Gardens Tampa, Solaria, Park Lake Presbyterian Church, Lakeland Opera, St. James Cathedral, Opera Tampa, and The Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe. She also sings with a number of orchestras including the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the Imperial Symphony Orchestra, and The Villages Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom she is ecstatic to perform in her tenth consecutive season this year.

SEAN CHRISTOPHER STORK

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Sean Christopher Stork is an active performer with opera companies and symphonic orchestras around the country as an accomplished baritone, actor, and conductor. He has made engagements with Opera Tampa, Opera Orlando, Lakeland Opera, Orlando Philharmonic, Space Coast Symphony, and Brevard Symphony Orchestras. Praised for his beatific and mellifluous tone and strong stage presence, he has made his unique mark on such roles as Papageno in our production of The Magic Flute, The Father in Hansel and Gretel, and Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance.

A strong supporter of modern music, he has collaborated with local composers in new works such as the titular role in John Young's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Cox in Curtis Tucker's Penelope Ann's Revenge, and as Luigi in Tom Sivak's The Last Hurdy Gurdy. As a conductor, he has led musicians with The Villages Philharmonic Orchestra, the Basilica Choir and Orchestra of the National Shrine of Mary Queen of the Universe, as well as several mixed and men’s choruses with the Barbershop Harmony Society, including the 2023 District Champion Orange Blossom Chorus. Sean is also a popular composer and arranger, having commissioned works for numerous orchestras, bands, and choruses.

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