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Bemidji State University’s School of Music brings opera to the North Woods for its annual Opera Night Gala, set for February 20 at Bemidji’s Sanford Center.<\/p>\n
The Opera Night Gala features solo and ensemble performances by School of Music students, faculty and guest artists performing a variety of opera, Broadway and other repertoire. The event encourages attendees to dress to delight, with cocktail attire optional but not required. The evening begins with a cocktail hour and includes a catered meal.<\/p>\n
This year’s meal options are slow-roasted beef or chicken cordon bleu, with a dessert option of cheesecake or chocolate truffle mousse cake.<\/p>\n
This year’s featured guest artist will be Dr. Jeremy Kelly, assistant director of voice at Western Kentucky University. A baritone, Kelly’s previous operatic experiences include performances with Opera Pacific and opera troupes from coast-to-coast including Seattle; Omaha, Nebraska; Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and in Florida and Kentucky. He also has performed in Bogotá, Colombia and with the New York City Ballet.<\/p>\n
Last year’s Opera Night Gala featured more than 20 performances presented across four acts, including ensemble numbers, solo performances and a duet. Guest artists included Emily Bergeron, a graduate vocal performance student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Josh Kohl, a renowned tenor who has performed around the globe, including several years as a member of the ensemble at Theater Freiburg in Germany.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the Opera Night Gala are $100 and are on sale now through the Hometown Fan app<\/i><\/a>. Meal and dessert choices can be made when purchasing tickets. An additional “Date-Night Package” includes a bottle of wine, commemorative stemless glasses, chocolate from Chocolates Plus of Bemidji and a thank-you bag, is available for an additional $50.<\/p>\n Hometown Fan is available as a free download on the Apple App Store<\/i><\/a> and on Google Play<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tickets on sale for the Bemidji School of Music’s annual Opera Night Gala, moving to Bemidji’s Sanford Center for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,872,1002,980,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-homepage","category-music","category-strategic-plan","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49176,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49172\/revisions\/49176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}