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RAY EVANS HARRELL
Voice Teacher/Conductor/Master Teacher
212-724-2398
PERFORMANCE VENUES OF VOICE STUDIO ALUMNI
Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Covent Garden, Teatro
Alla Scala, Avery Fisher Hall, New York City Opera, San
Francisco Symphony and Opera, Alice Tully Hall, Handel
Opera Society of New York, Opera Co. of Boston, Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Merkin Hall, Brooklyn Academy of
Music, La Mama E.T.C., The Mark Tapir Forum, Kansas
City Lyric Opera, Cleveland Orchestra and Opera, Town Hall,
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Bach Bethlehem Festival,
Netherlands Opera, Baltimore Opera, Canadian Opera, Jack
Lawrence Broadway Theater, St. Lukes Chamber Orchestra,
Y Chamber Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Milwaukee
Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, St Paul Chamber
rchestra, Baltimore Opera, Houston Orchestra., the
Minnesota Orchestra.
CD RECORDING VENUES
Angel, London, Columbia, Vox Cum Laude, Newport Classic,
Opus One, Leonarda, Spectrum, Decca, Premier CD, MTM 8,
Disneyland CD.
STUDIO ALUMNI PRESS NOTICES:
"I never expect to hear a better performance than this one,
musically or dramatically." The Washington Post
"-gave a stark seriousness to Carmen...handsomely assured."
New York Times
"You'll sense an inner harmony here in that the composer
himself surely expected and wrote for just such a voice."
Audio Magazine
"She has refined her vocal instrument to the very razor's
edge of perfection." Los Angeles Times
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from "THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE"
"It is vital that the five disciplines
develop as an ENSEMBLE.
This is challenging because it
is much harder to integrate
new tools then simply
apply them separately.
But the payoffs are immense."
Peter M. Senge (pg. 12)
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RAY EVANS HARRELL is the Artistic Director/Conductor of the
MAGIC CIRCLE OPERA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE, INC.
America's only full-time chamber opera ensemble, in
residence at the International Theater of the Avant Garde
"LaMama E.T.C." in New York City.
MAGIC CIRCLE OPERA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE
(What the PRESS is saying about MCORE)
"RAY EVANS HARRELL, started the MAGIC CIRCLE OPERA REPERTORY
ENSEMBLE in 1990 with the idea of giving young singers not
only stage experience, but also administrative experience.
The ensemble's steady roster of 18--including singers,
dancers, a stage director, a choreographer and a composer--
doubles as an executive committee responsible for raising
money and doing the other tasks that keep the company
afloat." New York Times
"A CHILDHOOD MIRACLE" (recording premiere)
"But the piece de resistance came after intermission:
The New York orchestral staged premiere of the (Ned Rorem)
opera "A Childhood Miracle"...lovingly conducted by the
company's Artistic Director RAY EVANS HARRELL"
Opera Monthly
"STONES TIME AND ELEMENTS" (World Premiere)
by Kurt Vonnegut and Edgar Grana
"The MAGIC CIRCLE CHORUS is excellent, dedicated,
and passionate...the vocal soloists are very professional.
Clearly a very gratifying work to perform and for
listening. Audio Magazine
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What our COLLEAGUES are saying about the Magic Circle
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"the singing was at all times intelligent and often
deeply beautiful, and the instrumentalists were
perfection."
Ned Rorem,
America's greatest
Lyric Composer
"Your company is unique, beautiful, talented, amazing.
Rarely have I seen the elements of performance so perfectly
intertwined, a vision and concept so beautifully executed.
I extend my gratitude to you and your artists for an hour
of 'magic'."
Christine Arnold,
Managing Director Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
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RAY EVANS HARRELL, as a performing artist.
LINCOLN CENTER DEBUT NOTICE:
"There was surely nothing hackneyed about the vocal
program given in ALICE TULLY HALL last Saturday
night. Baritone, RAY EVANS HARRELL, presented
a fascinating group of selections, the most fasmiliar of
which were eight songs from Mahler's "das Knaben
Wunderhorn." He delivered them in excellent German,
with prepared comprehension... his well choreographed
performances were highly enjoyable...Mr. Harrell's high
pianissimo passages in the Mahler were superbly delivered...
he sang Bartok's somber cycle "Ot Dal" masterfully in
Hungarian, the second song, translated as "My Bed Beckons
Me," is a glorious example of late-romantic resignation.
Harrell was especially fine here, as was pianist
MARGARET SINGER."
Zakaraisen, NYC Daily News
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LATEST COMPACT DISK RELEASES (1995-96)
(*Two world premiere recordings)
THE MAGIC CIRCLE OPERA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE, INC.
1. *"STONES TIME AND ELEMENTS" by
Kurt Vonnegut and Edgar David Grana
with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and
Jazz Tenor Sax Master MICHAEL BRECKER
Newport Classic CD
2. *Two Chamber Operas by Ned Rorem
"A CHILDHOOD MIRACLE" libretto Eliot Stein
"THREE SISTERS WHO ARE NOT SISTER"
libretto by Gertrude Stein
Newport Classic CD
3. AMERICAN PARLOR SONGS AND BALLADS
with Juillianne Baird and the
Magic Circle Women's Ensemble
Vox Classics
4. VERDI SCENES AND ARIAS WITH CHRISTINE WEIDINGER
Soloists from the Magic Circle
Vox Classics
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from the 1996 "OPERA AMERICA CAREER GUIDE"
THE MAGIC CIRCLE OPERA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE, Inc.
(A 501 C-3 Not For Profit Corporation)
MISSION STATEMENT:
-To build and maintain the premier national chamber
opera ensemble as a full-time, year-round company, theater
and National School of the Chamber Performing Arts:
-to develop audiences for chamber opera in the NYC area
and the United States:
-to train performers, composers, and other support
personnel with the goal of developing a National School
of the Chamber Performing Arts:
-to continue involvement with the music of America:
-to maintain a relationship to the traditional music of
the cultures that make up American society through the
medium of live performance, video, film and recording;
-to translate the new and traditional in meaningful
ways to New York City audiences.
Performance Halls: La Mama Experimental Theater,
Annex Theater; St. Peter's at
Citi-corp.(off-broadway) and the
Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln
Center Plaza, New York City
Performance Period: forty six weeks
Audition: Send Resume, and photo with letter
requesting audition. Auditions
held thrice yearly
Number of Singers: 25
Orchestra: 22
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Ray Evans Harrell<mcore@soho.ios.com>
Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc.
200 West 70th Street, Suite 6c/ NYCity, 10023-4324
212 724-2398