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Meet Tenor Roger Honeywell from the Opera Company of Philadelphia's production of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul. Join us to learn about what it takes to make a career in opera, how one learns the music in an opera - especially challenging contemporary operas, ane more.  Students will be in control of this event by asking the singer questions and guiding the conversation!

Students should have a reasonable idea of voice types (soprano/mezzo-soprano/contralto/tenor/baritone/bass). This event is encouraged for teachers who wish to provide more information and/or a greater awareness about the voice and pursuing a career as a singer to their students. 

Participating schools in the Greater Philadelphia area will receive a special invitation to attend the final dress rehearsal of the opera. You will receive more information about this opportunity after you register.

Pre-Videoconference Activities

• Review OCP Sounds of Learning materials including a review of the opera's plot.
  
• Review audio/video clips from TEA (available on YouTube)
• Review the performer's biography  (Coming Soon)
• Develop Questions: Students should come prepared with 2 questions for the singer. Questions can be about growing up - most/least favorite class in
  school, mentors, etc.  What is life like on the road? How does he learn
  a score?  How does one remember all those words in a foreign language?
  Anything funny ever happen on stage?  Best/Worst parts of his job?  etc…

About Roger Honeywell

Tenor Roger Honeywell has been acclaimed as a performer “with the right kind of heroic mettle to his voice.” (Opera Now)

The 2009/10 season is a particularly exciting one for Mr. Honeywell, as he will be seen as Danilo in The Merry Widow with the Chicago Lyric Opera, and with Santa Fe Opera in Lewis Spratlan’s Pulitzer Prize winning Life Is a Dream. Other performances of note will include Don Jose in Carmen with the Pittsburgh Opera, and as Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and also in Tan Dun’s critically acclaimed contemporary opera Tea, both with the Philadelphia Opera, , and La Boheme with Opera Ontario.

In 2008/09 Mr. Honeywell reprised the role of Captain James Nolan in Doctor Atomic, this time for his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in a new production by Penny Woolcock. Other notable operatic appearances included Macduff in Macbeth with the Opéra de Montréal, his debut with the Fort Worth Opera as Don Jose in Carmen, and a world premiere of Paul Moravec’s The Letter with the Santa Fe Opera. He also appeared in concert with the Baltimore Symphony in Mozart’s Requiem.

Recent career highlights include the American premier of Tan Dun’s Tea a mirror of Soul with Santa Fe Opera and the World premier of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath at the Minnesota Opera and Utah Symphony and Opera. He has also made role debuts of Erik in the Flying Dutchman for Utah Opera and Don Jose in Carmen with Opera Calgary to great critical acclaim, as well as Rodolfo in La Boheme for the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West for the Glimmerglass Opera

A Note about Program Resources

The Opera Company provides a 40-page student workbook and an ancillary teacher workbook which is over 80 pages. Also included are a CD-Rom with additional materials and an audio CD of highlights from the opera.  If the participating school is outside the Philadelphia area, the Opera Company will send the teacher packet to the school and provide the student work book for download.