Minnesota Concert Opera
Edina Grand Opening Performance
Join us for a special Grand Opening event at the new Schmitt Music Edina store! 2906 West 66th Street, Edina, MN 55423-1939.
Members of the Minnesota Concert Opera will perform on Thursday, March 1st at 7:00pm. This FREE performance will include arias, duets, and even a little musical theater!
Thursday, March 1
7:00 - 8:00pm | FREE!
Schmitt Music Edina
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Stanford Felix is the Executive/Director of Minnesota Concert Opera (MCO). As a professional bass-baritone he continues to perform on many opera, concert and musical theater stages around the country.
Dr. Felix received his M.M in Voice Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and his D.M.A in Voice Performance from the University of Kansas. He was Assistant Professor of Voice at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, and Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas for the last ten years, where he taught applied voice, vocal pedagogy and opera workshop. He is a composer of many choral and art song compositions and is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide Music Dictionary, released by Penguin Books in July 2010.
Kirsten Hoiseth Thayer – Soprano, has most recently been engaged with Minnesota Concert Opera to perform the role of Leonora in the 2013 production of Verdi's Il Trovatore. In 2011, she made several appearances with the Duluth Festival Opera, performing several Opera Cabarets. Of her 2010 performance of Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera with Opera in the Heights in Houston, TheatrePorts Buzz Bellmont wrote, "The beautiful Kirsten Hoiseth is perfect as Amelia. Her clear, controlled Soprano instrument is a joy to behold, and her acting is unparalleled. This superb singer is destined for greatness in the best opera houses around the globe, and we are lucky to have her in Houston”.
Kirsten resides in Wayzata, MN, where she has a very successful private voice studio, and is the Music Director for Blue Water Theatre Company.
2012-2013 season at The Cowles Center
I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini SEPTEMBER 28 & 30, 2012
Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi JANUARY 25 & 27, 2013
Julius Caeser by George Frideric Handel APRIL 26 & 28, 2013
Minnesota Concert Opera (MCO) performs full-length operas in concert format using local and guest artists, piano or orchestra and an opera chorus, and is sung in the original language with English surtitles. Produced without sets, costumes or staging, this unique and portable performance style allows MCO to bring world-class opera to Minnesota’s communities, introducing a large variety of opera (and occasionally musical theater) repertoire to all age groups and demographics. Using some of our state’s finest up-and-coming singers, side-by-side with seasoned guest artists, MCO connects with every community in which it performs, interacting with local choirs contracted by the company to sing the chorus. MCO’s home at the Cowles Center for the Dance and the Performing Arts in downtown Minneapolis allows us to perform in the 505-seat, state-of-the-art Goodale theatre, which encompasses the ideal size and acoustics for concert opera. When on tour, MCO will perform in theatres of a similar size to maintain the ambience and acoustical criteria that bring out the best in the intimate and dramatic concert opera experience.
