WABI previews School of Performing Arts Opera Workshop

WABI (Channel 5) reported students in the University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts will present an Opera Workshop at 7:30 p.m. April 14 in Minsky Recital Hall. The students will perform segments from a variety of hit shows, WABI reported. “Opera is a little bit different than musical theater,” said Isaac Bray, director of the workshop. “You kind of have to wait for the voice to mature before you can sing full opera rolls. So what we do at the undergraduate level is we do scenes excerpted from operas. This gives students a chance to work on their Italian, to work on their German, or whichever language they’re singing in.” Student Lexie Dix said performing opera is challenging. “It is a never-ending process, you never feel like you are ready and that can be stressful, but the pay out is always worth it,” she said. The workshop is free and open to the public.