| The Performers |
Kimberley Dolanski, Soprano Karin White, Soprano Barbara Wiltsie, Mezzo-Soprano with Linette Popoff-Parks, Pianist |
Barbara, Karin, Kimberley, Linette
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Sopranos Three!
Barbara Wiltsie, Mezzo-Soprano, is a Master of Music Voice Performance graduate
of The Manhattan School of Music in NYC and has soloed with numerous symphonies, chorale
groups and opera companies throughout the Midwest; including the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony, Southwestern Michigan Symphony, Toledo Symphony (Bach's
St. Matthew's Passion), Bach Festival of Kalamazoo (Mozart's Requiem and Respighi's Lauda per
la nativitá del Signor), Mendelssohn Chorale of Pittsburgh (Mozart's C Minor Mass), Michigan
Opera Theater (Carmen as Mercedes and Rigoletto as Giovanna), Des Moines Metro Opera
(Madama Butterfly as Kate Pinkerton), Fargo-Moorhead Civic Opera (Hansel & Gretel as Hansel),
Opera!Lenawee (title role in Carmen), and Toledo Opera (Carmen as Mercedes, The Mikado as
Pitti-Sing and Gianni Schicci as La Ciesca). Other roles include Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte,
Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, the Mother in Amahl & the Night Visitors, and Dinah in
Trouble in Tahiti, a role she recently portrayed for Arbor Opera Theatre of Ann Arbor.
A former long-time Touring Artist for the Michigan Opera Theatre, Barbara has garnered many
awards—such as the Metropolitan Opera Council Award as a two-time District Winner and
Regional Finalist, winner of the Friedrich Schorr Memorial Performance Prize and a winner in
the National Opera Association Artist Awards. Outside of the operatic/classical genre, she also
produces and performs Broadway/ cabaret revue shows with fellow professionals in a quartet
entitled ACT II. Barbara is Assistant Professor of Voice at Madonna University in Livonia
where she is the Director of the Lyric Theatre Program, maintains an extensive studio teaching
voice to teens and adults who have earned top ratings in adjudications and local contests, and
is an adjudicator/member for both N.A.T.S. Michigan Chapter (National Association of Teachers
of Singing) and MSVMA (Michigan Schools Vocal Music Association). In addition to her
university duties, she co-directs the Summer Musical Theatre Workshop for middle and high
school students at Madonna University.
of The Manhattan School of Music in NYC and has soloed with numerous symphonies, chorale
groups and opera companies throughout the Midwest; including the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony, Southwestern Michigan Symphony, Toledo Symphony (Bach's
St. Matthew's Passion), Bach Festival of Kalamazoo (Mozart's Requiem and Respighi's Lauda per
la nativitá del Signor), Mendelssohn Chorale of Pittsburgh (Mozart's C Minor Mass), Michigan
Opera Theater (Carmen as Mercedes and Rigoletto as Giovanna), Des Moines Metro Opera
(Madama Butterfly as Kate Pinkerton), Fargo-Moorhead Civic Opera (Hansel & Gretel as Hansel),
Opera!Lenawee (title role in Carmen), and Toledo Opera (Carmen as Mercedes, The Mikado as
Pitti-Sing and Gianni Schicci as La Ciesca). Other roles include Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte,
Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, the Mother in Amahl & the Night Visitors, and Dinah in
Trouble in Tahiti, a role she recently portrayed for Arbor Opera Theatre of Ann Arbor.
A former long-time Touring Artist for the Michigan Opera Theatre, Barbara has garnered many
awards—such as the Metropolitan Opera Council Award as a two-time District Winner and
Regional Finalist, winner of the Friedrich Schorr Memorial Performance Prize and a winner in
the National Opera Association Artist Awards. Outside of the operatic/classical genre, she also
produces and performs Broadway/ cabaret revue shows with fellow professionals in a quartet
entitled ACT II. Barbara is Assistant Professor of Voice at Madonna University in Livonia
where she is the Director of the Lyric Theatre Program, maintains an extensive studio teaching
voice to teens and adults who have earned top ratings in adjudications and local contests, and
is an adjudicator/member for both N.A.T.S. Michigan Chapter (National Association of Teachers
of Singing) and MSVMA (Michigan Schools Vocal Music Association). In addition to her
university duties, she co-directs the Summer Musical Theatre Workshop for middle and high
school students at Madonna University.
Linette Popoff-Parks, Pianist, is Professor of Music at Madonna University where
she teaches piano, theory, and humanities, and chairs the Music Department. Linette studied
with John Guinn and Lawrence LaGore at Marygrove College, and did her graduate work at
Eastern Michigan University with Joseph Gurt, where she received a double masters' in piano
performance/accompanying and theory/literature. She is a performing member of the Tuesday
Musicale of Detroit, where she has performed with many artists, such as Velda Kelly, violin,
Nadine Deleury, cello, Ernestine Nimmons, soprano, Mary Sue Ewing, soprano, Linda Meehan,
soprano, and others, and has premiered works by local composers, such as Elaine
Lebenbaum. Linette has entertained audiences at Chamber Music at the Scarab Club, with
works of female composers like Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Mel Bonis, and Elfrida Andree.
Her performing work has taken her to Southeastern Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Montana as
a solo and chamber musician. She currently studies with Edna Golandsky in New York.
she teaches piano, theory, and humanities, and chairs the Music Department. Linette studied
with John Guinn and Lawrence LaGore at Marygrove College, and did her graduate work at
Eastern Michigan University with Joseph Gurt, where she received a double masters' in piano
performance/accompanying and theory/literature. She is a performing member of the Tuesday
Musicale of Detroit, where she has performed with many artists, such as Velda Kelly, violin,
Nadine Deleury, cello, Ernestine Nimmons, soprano, Mary Sue Ewing, soprano, Linda Meehan,
soprano, and others, and has premiered works by local composers, such as Elaine
Lebenbaum. Linette has entertained audiences at Chamber Music at the Scarab Club, with
works of female composers like Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Mel Bonis, and Elfrida Andree.
Her performing work has taken her to Southeastern Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Montana as
a solo and chamber musician. She currently studies with Edna Golandsky in New York.
Kimberley Dolanski, Soprano, received her Masters in Music from the University of
Michigan, and her Bachelors in Music from Florida State University. Her Credits include: Greta
in The Singing Girl, Babette in Babette, Effie in Cabaret Girl, Jackie in Oh Boy, Fifi in Mlle.
Modiste, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Casilda in The Gondoliers, Marie in La Fille Du Régiment,
Guadelena in La Périchole, Donna Ximena in Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni, Angelina in Trial By
Jury, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Susan in Company, et al. Her solo appearances have included:
Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Handel’s
Messiah, Mozart’s Mass in C Major, Mass in C minor, Vesperae solemnes de confessore, Requiem,
and Brahm’s Requiem. She has been the Featured guest artist with the Detroit Symphony
under the baton of John Morris Russell, Flint Symphony, conducted by Bradley Bloom, as well
as the Grand Traverse Symphony directed by Glenn Klassen in 2001 and by Kevin Rhodes in
2002 and 2005 and 2006. Other conductors include: Robert Shaw, Martin Katz, Jerry
Blackstone, André Thomas and Rodney Eichenberger. Directors and coaches included are:
Martin Katz, Patrick Young of Covent Garden, Ned Canty, Joshua Major and Michael
McConnell. Kimberley has studied voice with Shirley Verrett and Claritha Buggs.
Michigan, and her Bachelors in Music from Florida State University. Her Credits include: Greta
in The Singing Girl, Babette in Babette, Effie in Cabaret Girl, Jackie in Oh Boy, Fifi in Mlle.
Modiste, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Casilda in The Gondoliers, Marie in La Fille Du Régiment,
Guadelena in La Périchole, Donna Ximena in Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni, Angelina in Trial By
Jury, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Susan in Company, et al. Her solo appearances have included:
Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Handel’s
Messiah, Mozart’s Mass in C Major, Mass in C minor, Vesperae solemnes de confessore, Requiem,
and Brahm’s Requiem. She has been the Featured guest artist with the Detroit Symphony
under the baton of John Morris Russell, Flint Symphony, conducted by Bradley Bloom, as well
as the Grand Traverse Symphony directed by Glenn Klassen in 2001 and by Kevin Rhodes in
2002 and 2005 and 2006. Other conductors include: Robert Shaw, Martin Katz, Jerry
Blackstone, André Thomas and Rodney Eichenberger. Directors and coaches included are:
Martin Katz, Patrick Young of Covent Garden, Ned Canty, Joshua Major and Michael
McConnell. Kimberley has studied voice with Shirley Verrett and Claritha Buggs.
Soprano, Karin White recently portrayed the role of Mimi in La Boheme for the Arbor
Opera Theater and performed Carmina Burana with the Saginaw Chorale and the Midland
Music Society under the baton of Maestro Dr. Jerry Blackstone. This winter she sang the role
of Camille Claudel in the opera Promise for the 2006 National Opera Association Convention,
and was a soloist in the 2006 Verdi Marathon in Manhattan, NY. She was a featured soloist in a
Mozart gala concert for the Michigan Opera Theater of Detroit as well as guest soloist with the
Dearborn Symphony, the Plymouth Symphony, the Westmoreland Symphony, the Birmingham-
Bloomfield Symphony, the Verdi Opera Theater, the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers, the Comic
Opera Guild, Arbor Opera Theater, and many others. Presently Karin performs with Michigan
Opera Theater and was showcased in the role of Joy (The Araboolies of Liberty Street) at the
Opera America Convention in Detroit in 2005.
Some of her other favorite staged roles include Violetta in La Traviata, the Countess in The
Marriage of Figaro, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella and
Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus. Her oratorio performances include Orff's Carmina Burana,
Handel's Messiah, the Brahms Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Verdi Requiem,
Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, and Mozart's Vesperae Solennes. This fall she will be a
guest soloist with the Macomb County Symphony in a concert of Mozart and Viennese
selections and perform in an opera gala concert in New York City. In 2007 she will perform the
role of Violetta in La Traviata with the Arbor Opera Theater. Karin is currently under
management with Ramon Alsina Artists of New York.
Opera Theater and performed Carmina Burana with the Saginaw Chorale and the Midland
Music Society under the baton of Maestro Dr. Jerry Blackstone. This winter she sang the role
of Camille Claudel in the opera Promise for the 2006 National Opera Association Convention,
and was a soloist in the 2006 Verdi Marathon in Manhattan, NY. She was a featured soloist in a
Mozart gala concert for the Michigan Opera Theater of Detroit as well as guest soloist with the
Dearborn Symphony, the Plymouth Symphony, the Westmoreland Symphony, the Birmingham-
Bloomfield Symphony, the Verdi Opera Theater, the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers, the Comic
Opera Guild, Arbor Opera Theater, and many others. Presently Karin performs with Michigan
Opera Theater and was showcased in the role of Joy (The Araboolies of Liberty Street) at the
Opera America Convention in Detroit in 2005.
Some of her other favorite staged roles include Violetta in La Traviata, the Countess in The
Marriage of Figaro, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella and
Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus. Her oratorio performances include Orff's Carmina Burana,
Handel's Messiah, the Brahms Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Verdi Requiem,
Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, and Mozart's Vesperae Solennes. This fall she will be a
guest soloist with the Macomb County Symphony in a concert of Mozart and Viennese
selections and perform in an opera gala concert in New York City. In 2007 she will perform the
role of Violetta in La Traviata with the Arbor Opera Theater. Karin is currently under
management with Ramon Alsina Artists of New York.