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.
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
(Composer)
Giuseppe Verdi shares “greatest ever” bragging
rights with Mozart, Puccini and Wagner. Born
in 1813, Verdi suffered unspeakable tragedy at
two years old when Russian soldiers massacred
everyone in his hometown — everyone except
Verdi and his mother, who survived by hiding in a
bell tower. Later, he earned a job as an organist
although the Milan Conservatory rejected Verdi
get the last laugh on the musical establishment
although tragedy followed him mercilessly with
his two children and wife dying within years of
Nabucco
in 1842, then Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida.
outstanding operatic adaptations of Shakespeare:
Macbeth. Later, he wrote Otello and Falstaff.
Verdi wrote 25 operas and lived until 87 years old
in vigorous health. On Jan. 21, 1901, he suffered
a sudden stroke and died six days later in Milan.
La Scala closed for three days.
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
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 two-time
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
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