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  • Cris Frisco

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    Cris Frisco

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    Cris Frisco is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music. In recent seasons, he has been conductor or pianist for productions and workshops on Broadway, at the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Town Hall, Santa Fe Opera, McCarter Theatre Center, Walnut Street Theater, Opera Birmingham, Opera Memphis, Kentucky Opera, Opera Fayetteville, The Princeton Festival, The Theatre Outlet, Passage Theater, and the Bucks County Playhouse.  From 2021-2023 he was the Director of Music and Director of the Handorf Company Artist Program at Opera Memphis.  Currently in development, he is the music director for Anatomiae Occultii’s contemporary dance production of Sweeney Todd.  A committed educator for the next generation of artists, he has served on the faculty of Mannes School of Music, Westminster Choir College, Rutgers University, City University of New York, the New School for Drama, the Castleton Festival, the Mostly Modern Festival, Finger Lakes Opera, Queens Summer Vocal Institute, and Westminster’s CoOPERAtive. 

    Current Courses

    German Diction
    CAOV 2205, Spring 2025

    German Diction
    CAOV 5520, Spring 2025

    Italian Diction
    CAOV 1205, Spring 2025

    Italian Diction
    CAOV 5500, Spring 2025

    Future Courses

    English Diction
    CAOV 5510, Fall 2025

    Italian Diction
    CAOV 5500, Fall 2025

    Italian Diction
    CAOV 1205, Fall 2025

    Opera Audition Lab
    CAOV 5010, Fall 2025

    Text, Score, Gesture, Sound
    CAOV 5750, Fall 2025

    Past Courses

    English Diction
    CAOV 5510, Fall 2024

    Italian Diction
    CAOV 5500, Fall 2024

    Italian Diction
    CAOV 1205, Fall 2024

    Text, Score, Gesture, Sound
    CAOV 5750, Fall 2024

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