Fresno Famous

July 16th Thursday at 7 PM * Featured Faculty Recital * John Minagro, Baritone

Willow International Center * 10309 N. Willow in Fresno

Versatile John Minagro is frequently seen in many genres of vocal music including Opera, Oratorio, Concert and Musical Theater. A NATS First Place division winner, both the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle and the Sacramento Regional Theater Alliance nominated John for Best Actor in a Musical. In addition to features of leading traditional baritone opera roles throughout the world, John has also performed from Lincoln Center in New York, to the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle. He performed over 2000 times with The Phantom of the Opera in San Francisco, and has sung with the San Francisco Opera for eight seasons. He has also been the guest soloist with the San Francisco Symphony at their Summer Broadway Pops Concert, and can be heard singing “You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch!” on the Christmas CD Christmas Center Stage, an album featuring the San Francisco cast of The Phantom of the Opera. He was a featured soloist on a PBS children's special performing his own composition called The Piano. He can also be heard on the world premiere album of the new opera Corpus Evita singing the role of Juan Peron. This CD was nominated for a Grammy in 2005 for Best New Classical Recording. For the past few years he has been among favorites performing in Osaka, Japan.

Festival Events are Free with donations welcome at the door in order to promote a greater interest in, exposure to, and attendance of opera in Fresno -made possible, in part, through the Community Enrichment Program of the Fresno Arts Council, the Bonner Family Foundation, Exxon Mobile, Bank of the West, Fred Schlotthauer Memorial Education Fund, AZCAL Management, and Pure Sense, among other individual and corporate sponsors of the Annual International Vocal Competition, and the Festival Finale performances! For more information, please see http://www.calopera.org/opera_events.html

Location: Willow International Center, 10309 N. Willow, Fresno
Starts: 2009 Jul 16 - 7:00pm
Ends: 2009 Jul 16 - 9:00pm
Website: http://www.calopera.org