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www.lou-e.org College Guide Coming May 2014 Louisville Magazine's complete guide to fnding (and getting into!) the right college for your student. The 2014 College Guide will be distributed to all public, private and parochial high school juniors in Jefferson, Oldham, Bullitt and Shelby counties in Kentucky and Floyd, Clark, Harrison, Scott and Crawford counties in Indiana. 625-0100 x32 or advertising@loumag.com 34 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.13 Te curtain went up, and then there was a tremendous growl of things crashing, and the curtain came back down. Moritz disappeared out of the pit and went up onstage behind the curtain. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Ten back into the pit, da-da dum dum, da-da dum dum. And of we go!" Bomhard was fearless. According to Smillie, he once wrote to Rolf Liebermann, the celebrated head of the Hamburg State Opera, and pleaded, "Tell me the name of an opera that nobody in Louisville will have heard of, and when they hear it will be delighted." Liebermann sent back a postcard with one word on it: Jenufa. Says Smillie: "It's one of the great standards now." Funny about that. Kentucky Opera is doing the same thing this month with a little-known and seldom, if ever, performed Verdi opera called Simon Boccanegra. Interestingly, veteran singers will fll the lead roles, all singing it for the frst time. Kind of a "re-premiere" of an 1843 opera. Today, there are more than 100 opera companies operating in the United States; Roth has staked out a niche in that world. He wants Kentucky Opera to nurture young talent. Tis season's presentations include Puccini's La Boheme, which played in October, and Romero and Gounod's Romeo and Juliet in February. Both are stories about young people, and Roth has cast young up-and-comers to sing them. La Boheme — "the Bohemians" — starred all 20-somethings and early 30-somethings, all singing the famous opera for the frst time in their careers. Red-hot operatic prospect Corinne Winters appeared as Mimi, the tragic young heroine, romantic-voiced tenor Patrick O'Halloran sang Rudolfo, and the talented and striking Louisvillian Emily Albrink was the heartthrob Muzetta. Albrink starred here last season in Te Elixir of Love. "All of these singers are sort of starting out, getting into their careers," says Albrink, 31. "None of us had ever done the roles before. I had never even sung Puccini. So I defnitely appreciate that David Roth is ready to take risks. It's not every time; they bring in more seasoned singers, too. But he's willing to take risks on younger talent and give opportunities to people starting out." Albrink grew up in a musical family, studying with Edith Tidwell, a voice professor at U of L and a classical singer. Albrink started in musical theater at the University of Michigan, then switched to opera, garnering notice with the Washington National Opera. But a young singer makes her breaks with never-ending auditions and working the phone. "One fall I cold-called 30 companies," Albrink says. "I started with A, like Arizona Opera: 'Hi, I'm soprano No. 5,000. Can I send you my bio, and can you hear me?'"