The New Rochelle Opera Company will be opening its 29th season in the middle of the month with a production of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’.
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Camille Coppola, company co-founder and artistic director, will be staging the production and Gregory Ortega will be conducting the orchestra and chorus. According to Coppola, this is not only a new production for the company’s repertoire but it is also a comedic opera, so the audience should have a lot of fun with it. There will be English subtitles to translate the spoken Italian.
Coppola has been the director of all of the productions of the Opera Company for the past 28 years. She has also been a director for the Altamura Center for the Performing Arts and, as a soloist, has performed with the Performing Arts Society, the New Rochelle Opera, and the Westchester County Opera Association.
Ortega has been with the Opera Company for 18 years and studied music at Hunter College, the Julliard School, and Harmony and Ear Training. He has conducted at many of the smaller opera houses in New York City and Boston, as well as for two premieres in the United States.
The performances will run from June 19 to 22.
