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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

by Seymour Barab

Nov 4 & 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Oehring Theatre North Pole

This clever retelling of the childhood classic is produced in collaboration with the Theater Tech Academy of North Pole High School. Fully Staged.

TICKET PRICES: Preferred $40 • General $20 Students/Children $10

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GEORGE RYDLINSKI is originally from Chicago, Illinois. He completed undergraduate studies in music performance at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb in 1980. He enlisted in the Army as a bassoonist in 1983 and her retired as the First Sergeant and enlisted bandleader of the 9th Army Band at Ft. Wainwright in 2004. He currently works for the Fairbanks Symphony Association as their Marketing Director. George has performed as principal bassoonist with the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestras since the fall of 1996. He is also an adjunct lecturer at UAF in the Music Department.   He was the Music Director and Conductor for the 2006 FLOT production of Gilbert & Sullivan's the Gondoliers. He directed the first Opera Fairbanks performance, “ A Touch of Opera” in 2007 and has performed as a bassoonist in many of their productions to date. George begins his sixth term as the Music Director and Conductor of the Fairbanks Youth Symphony during the 2011-2012 concert season.  
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Mezzo soprano, LENEIDA CRAWFORD was acclaimed as "an exceptional new performer" by Andrew Porter in The New Yorker and the San Francisco Chronicle described Crawford as "a fine-grained mezzo-soprano of remarkable agility with violalike colors." The "Washington Post" agreed, characterizing her as a "rosy, unblemished mezzo..."

Dr. Crawford made her New York solo debut at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Solo assignments soon followed with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Eric Leinsdorf, the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall and the National Chorale. She has appeared with the Santa Fe Opera, Maryland Opera Studio, Music from Bear Valley, and Eastern Opera. Most recently she has appeared as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Opera Fairbanks and presented a recital of arias for the Juneau Lyric Opera both in Alaska.

Dr. Crawford is well known to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore audiences as a soloist in both oratorio and recital venues. She is an advocate of American music and has presented recitals of American Art songs throughout the United States. Currently she and collaborative pianist, Susan Ricci, are completing production of a CD of American Art Songs. Internationally, Dr. Crawford presented American song recitals in Beijing and Shanghai, China, Vienna and Mürzzuschlag, Austria, and Mexico City.

Dr. Crawford has appeared as a soloist at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Kennedy Center with The Paul Hill Chorale, Washington Oratorio Society and The Choral Arts Society of Washington Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale, and Carnegie Hall. In addition, she has performed with the Honolulu Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, the Virginia Chamber Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the Cayuga Chamber Symphony. Crawford has recorded on the Albany (Boris Blacher’s Romeo and Juliet) and VOX labels and has appeared on CBS and PBS.

Dr. Crawford is Chairperson and Professor of Voice of the department of music at Towson University in Baltimore Maryland. She teaches applied voice and vocal diction. She also team teaches Vocal Literature and Pedagogy and is an assistant director for Music for the Stage (opera workshop).

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Hollie Mowry earned her BA in Music from Western Washington University in 1998 and her Masters of Music in Musical Theatre and Opera from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2000. After graduation she performed in theatres across the country until meeting her husband, a Captain in the US Air Force, and “retiring” to become a military wife and mom. Since then she has been fortunate enough to perform in a local production of Suor Angelica in Italy and with Opera Fairbanks in their recent production of L’Elisir d’Amore.

Favorite roles include Cunnegonde (Candide), Hodel (Fiddler on the Roof), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Grace (Annie), and Susan (Big). Hollie is thrilled to be a part of Little Red Riding Hood and can’t wait for her daughter, 2, to see her perform for the first time!

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Raleigh Bartholomew, baritone, was born in Juneau, Alaska. He currently studies voice with Dr. John Hopkins at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Raleigh has performed in the chorus of Don Giovanni with the Juneau opera company "Opera to Go" as well as with Opera Fairbanks in their winter opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors in addition to their summer opera, Elixir of Love. Raleigh has received several awards for his singing including an award from the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition. In addition to this award, Raleigh is honored to have been selected as a 2011 Apprentice Artist with Opera Fairbanks and is eagerly looking forward to his debut as an opera performer. Raleigh would like to thank his family, friends, and colleagues for their endless support.

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