Founder & Artistic Director

Donna Angel

Artistic Director Emeritus  

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Newcomb College, New Orleans, Louisiana (BA MUS), 1963  

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (MM Voice), 1964

The Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey (Summers)

Tanglewood Institute, The Berkshires Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts

 

VOCAL COACHES

Marjorie Lawrence, Robert Bernauer, Irene Jordan, Janice Harsanyi, Phyllis Curtin,  Norman Treigle, Dalton Baldwin, Ryan Edwards, Gerard Souzay, Robert Gay, Fletcher Wolfe. 

 

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

Guest performer with The New Orleans Summer Pops Orchestra, The New Orleans Philharmonic, The Colombian Nacional Orchestra, The Boston Symphony, and The Atlanta Symphony.

 

Goldovsky Opera, Northwestern Opera Theatre, Kennesaw Opera Theatre, New Orleans Opera, The Atlanta Chamber Opera Society.

 

Founder and director of Kennesaw State College Opera Theatre

Director of Clark College Atlanta Opera Workshop

Galloway Center for the Arts, Advanced Teen Voice, Adult Master Classes, Opera

Founder and Artistic Director of Friends of Opera

Founder and Artistic Director of Capitol City Opera Company, Inc

 

TEACHING BACKGROUND

Private studio:  Lexington, Virginia;  Greenville, South Carolina;  Atlanta, Georgia.  Artistic In Residence:  Clark Atlanta College;  Kennesaw State College;  The Cathedral of St Philip;  The Atlanta Boy Choir School of Music;  The Galloway Center for the Arts;  Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.

 

AWARDS

Pi Kappa Lambda National Honorary, Music;  Who's Who in American Musicians (S.C.);  Coordinator and Adjudicator Mobile Opera Guild Auditions;  Students have consistently placed tops in NATS, GMTA, Brevard Opera, Westminster Choir College, Goldovsky Competition, McAlister Awards.

 

Received grants through the City of Atlanta and the Bureau of Cultural Affairs to provide opera workshops throughout the city while teaching at Clark Atlanta College.  The Capitol City  Opera Company performs educational shows through Fulton County School Arts Program.  The school show touring program is under auspices of Young Audiences of Atlanta.