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History Teacher in the NYC premiere
of Paul’s Case by composer Gregory
Spears and directed by Kevin Newbury.
With Opera AACC, she debuted the
role of Micaëla in George Bizet’s Carmen followed by another debut with
American Modern Ensemble in Robert
Paterson’s Ghost Theater. A winner of
the Vocal Arts Society Discovery Recital
Series, Ms. Wimbish made her Kennedy Center recital debut in 2011. In
2014, she won the grand prize winner
of the NATS Artist Award and the
Franco-American Vocal Academy Prize
for excellence in the interpretation of
French repertoire.
Melissa Wimbish is making her debut
with the BSO.
Lewis Shaw
(Heresy Agent,
Cardinal Archbishop,
Slave Driver)
Lewis Shaw is well
known to Baltimore audiences both on
and off stage. He regularly performed
Shakespearian roles such as Prospero,
Petruchio and Falstaff with the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and the
Shakespeare Project. Mr. Shaw is also
an internationally known fight director and master stage combat teacher.
His fights have been seen in hundreds
of opera and theatre productions such
as Nabucco at the Washington Opera,
A Skull in Connemara at Center Stage
and Deathtrap at Everyman Theatre,
where he is a member of the Artistic
Company. Mr. Shaw also designs and
builds weapons and special effects for
the entertainment industry, working
extensively on Broadway and in film.
Look for his work in the upcoming
blockbuster Terminator Genisys. He is a
long time resident of Baltimore and has
two very talented sons.
About the concert:
Candide
Leonard Bernstein
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, August 25,
1918; died in New York City, October 14, 1990
Candide was the problem child of Leonard Bernstein’s creative career, the work
he called a stone in his shoe. A failure on
Broadway at its first production in the
winter of 1956-57, it was also par