
Anna made her opera directing debut this summer with the Prague Summer Nights Festival, directing Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in the historic Estates Theater in Prague."Ĭonductor John Nardolillo earned degrees in violin and conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Peabody Conservatory. "Anna was awarded the Directing Fellowship at Juilliard and studied opera in their vocal arts department with Stephen Wadsworth," said Avci Gunther. "Last year she was elevated to faculty status there as well, and assisted their five main stage operas, including Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Rossi’s L’Orfeo. She has acted on the professional stage and in films for approximately 20 years, having toured the world with the "first female inclusive cast" of Terrence McNally‘s Corpus Christi. Mexican and Hungarian-American opera and theatre director Anna Rebek of New York City will be directing this weekend's La Bohème performance.Īvci Gunther was happy to introduce Rebeck, explaining that she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Yale University. Rebeck went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Anne Bogart’s Columbia Directing program. The opera's director, conductor, singers and pianists all arrived the day after Die Fledermaus was last performed on Sunday, July 31. Marie, MI.Īmong them is University of Nebraska-Lincoln's (UNL) Assistant Professor of Voice, Suna Avci Gunther, who will play La Bohème's Musetta. Avci Gunther looks forward to sharing the stage with her husband, Thomas Gunther, and their five-year-old daughter. Highly trained, world famous musicians have traveled from around the nation to perform this classic opera in Sault Ste.

La Bohème is the highly anticipated, long awaited Soo Theatre opera of 2022. Soo Opera produces a fully staged professional performance once a year and the time is here. Audiences will travel to Paris this weekend from the seats of the historic Soo Theatre to watch art and love unfold before their eyes in La Bohème.
