James Madison University

Summer Music in Germany at the Mittlesachsisches Theatre

 

In 2011, Corinne traveled to Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, where she spent the summer participating in James Madison University's Summer Music in Germany Study Abroad Program. This program was a partnership with the Mittlesächsisches Theatre, a professional theatre and opera house.

 

As part of the program, Corinne performed in two student productions and two of the Mittlesächsisches Theatre's mainstage productions. One of these was Der kleine Horrorladen, or Little Shop of Horrors at the Seebühne Kriebstein, an outdoor stage built over a lake near the Kriebstein castle.

 

During this program, Corinne also performed the Witch's aria "Hurr, hopp, hopp, hopp!"from Hänsel und Gretel in concerts with the Mittlesächsisches Theatre's orchestra to thrilled (and frightened) German audiences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some-thing from No-thing

University of Hartford

The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies 25th Anniversary Celebration

 

When composer and Arizona State University faculty member, Dr. Jody Rockmaker, was commissioned to write a children's opera based on the Jewish folktale Epes fun Gornisht for the University of Hartford's Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies' 25th Anniversary Celebration, the project was originally offered to the Hart School of Music to perform. For some reason, the Hart School turned it down, so Arizona State's Lyric Opera Theatre Department picked up the project and selected four of their students to workshop the new opera. Corinne was selected to play the role of the child, David, whom the story is centered around.

 

The cast performed the production in Arizona, at Dr. Rockmaker's home temple, and then traveled to Connecticut, performing at various schools, synagogues, and at the Maurice Greenberg Center 25th Anniversary Celebration, where it was recorded and then televised on the Jewish TV network, Shalom TV. For more information on this work, and an excerpt of the televised performance, visit Dr. Rockmaker's site here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

College Light Opera Company 2007

Falmouth, MA

 

In 2007, Corinne spent her summer performing in the College Light Opera Company in Falmouth, MA.
The company is comprised completely of students (except directors and designers) from the singers to the costume staff. During the twelve-week program, the company mounts nine productions completely from scratch. The 2007 season included Candide, Patience, Pirates of Penzance, Secret Garden, The Merry Widow, 42nd Street, The Music Man, and Bye, Bye Birdie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Honduras Project

Middle Tennessee State University

 

In 2005, Dr. Jette Halladay, children's theatre professor at Middle Tennessee State University founded an arts-based humanitarian project (that is still going on today) to help the children of Cane, La Paz, Honduras. Corinne was one of nine theatre students selected to spearhead this project. Over nine months, she and the other students workshopped a new children's musical, performed it at MTSU, translated and relearned the show in Spanish, and then took the show to Honduras. In addition to performing, the students taught classes in music and theatre to schoolchildren in Tennessee and Honduras, and helped renovate Cane's elementary school.