Robin Stamper
(Chorus Master/Principal Pianist)
Stamper is managing director of Opera Tam pa.
He was previously the director of music for Florida
Opera Theatre, the director of music and chorus
master for Orlando Opera and artistic director
for Nevada Opera. He received degrees in piano
performance at the Eastman School of Music and
The Juilliard School.
Mike Wood
(Lighting Designer)
Wood is a New York City-based theatrical
lighting designer whose award-winning work has
been seen throughout the country. He is currently
an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan
College in NYC, where he teaches lighting
design and technology. He has also served on the
faculties of The Collegiate School, Hillsborough
Community College and Howard W. Blake School
of the Arts. Wood is also the resident lighting
designer at City Springs Theatre in Atlanta, Ga.
MikeWoodLD.com / @mikewoodld
Dawn Rivard
(Hair and Makeup Designer)
Rivard has designed for productions in Germany,
Austria and Switzerland, and won an Emmy®
Award for Feast of All Saints. She has built wigs for
Mike Myers, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken,
Jessica Biel, Sir Peter Ustinov, Jonathan Rhys
Meyers and Lily Collins (The Mortal Instruments:
City of Bones) which garnered her a Canadian
Academy Award. Rivard has done wig and makeup
work at Teatro alla Scala, Seville’s Teatro de la
Maestranza, Turin’s Teatro Regio, the Canadian
Opera Company for eight seasons, and works for
Jeff Daniels’ The Purple Rose Theatre Company.
Her work on Broadway productions includes
Ragtime, Sunset Boulevard and Showboat, and she
designed hair and makeup for The Dallas Opera as
well as the world premieres of Sister Carrie and twotime
Grammy® Award-winning Elmer Gantry.
Cat Carter
(Stage Manager)
Cat recently stage managed Forever Plaid in the
Straz Center’s Jaeb Theater. Locally, she’s managed
productions for the St. Pete Opera Company (Into
the Woods, Tales of Hoffmann); Tampa Repertory
Theatre (Flying, Realistic Joneses); and served as
a Logistics Coordinator for First Night St. Pete.
After studying Theater Technology and Design at
Fresno’s California State University, she completed
a series of stage management internships at
P.C.P.A. Theaterfest in Santa Maria, Calif. and
was rewarded with a staff position there. She’s also
worked at San Diego Repertory Theatre and toured
with California Theatre Center.
Luis González
(Assistant Conductor)
Luis González maintains parallel careers as conductor
and baritone soloist in a variety of opera,
musical theatre and concert repertoire. He is former
Chorus Master at St. Petersburg Opera (Il barbiere di
Siviglia, Norma, Pagliacci, Roméo et Juliette, Turandot,
West Side Story) and currently serves as Associate
Director/Assistant Conductor for Choral Artists of
Sarasota (Bach Mass in B minor, Beethoven Ninth
Symphony, Brahms Requiem, Duruflé Requiem,
Haydn Creation, Orff Carmina burana, Poulenc
Gloria, Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio and Verdi
Requiem). LGbaritone.com
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
(Composer)
Bizet began to study at the Paris Conservatoire
at age nine. Considered a musical genius, he
distinguished himself by winning contests. He wrote
many operas including The Pearl Fishers (1863)
which was performed 18 times in his lifetime and is
known for its memorable male duet. His last work,
written three months before his death, is Carmen.
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