On Saturday, November 12, Pensacola Opera will present another installment of its Salon Series Concert program at the beautiful home of Kyle and Jane Marrero in the beautiful East Hill district of Pensacola. Tickets are $125 a person and should be purchased in advance by calling the Opera Center at (850) 433-6737. Office hours are Mon.-Fri., 8:30 am-5:30 pm. Seating is limited and all proceeds go to support the artistic and educational programs of the Opera. Directions will be provided at the time of your reservation. More about Sewell Jeter Griffith: Among many appearances she has sung at the Hollywood Bowl as Frasquita with Jennifer Larmore as Carmen and with the Pacific Symphony singing Vaughan Williams' The Sea Symphony. Other credits include singing the title roles in Madama Butterfly, La Traviata,Suor Angelica, La Perichole and Mimi in La Boheme, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Micaela in Carmen, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Susanna in Le Nozze Di Figaro, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore and Contessa di Ceprano in Opera Pacific's Rigoletto. Upcoming appearances include Pensacola Opera Salon Series Concert on November 12, 2011; Jackson's Restaurant Wine Tasting on November 10, 2011; Tidings of Comfort at Old Christ Church December 23, 2011; and Pensacola Symphony on March 3, 2012. Some recent performances include singing Lee Johnson's Symphony #8 with the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra in November 2008, Mr. Johnson’s Infinitudes: Symphony #7 , based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, performed in Atlanta, GA in 2008, the last several seasons of Tidings of Comfort concert at Old Christ Church, Pensacola, portraying Fiordiligi in Pensacola Opera’s Così Fan Tutte in 2009. Sewell, known to her friends as Susie, is a diverse performer whose range includes performances of Boulez' Sur Mallarmé I & II; Lee Johnson’s Four Concerts for Piano Trio and Soprano and Infinitude: Seventh Symphony; Kernis’ Simple Songs; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis, Dvorak's Stabat Mater; the Brahms, Dvorak, Mozart and Verdi Requiems; Handel's Messiah; Haydn’s The Creation; Orff's Carmina Burana and Strauss' Four Last Songs. Ms. Griffith has performed as soloist with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, the Choral Society of Pensacola, Pensacola Opera, the Pensacola Jazz Society, the Riverside Concert Opera, the Lauren Zachery Music Society, the Santa Monica Civic Symphony and at the Kennedy Center Theater in Allen Pote’s Seaplane. She has portrayed Maria in West Side Story and Nelly Forbush in South Pacific where she won the Corpus Christi , Texas Harbor Playhouse Sammy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Atlantic Records released a compact disk of Italian operatic aria set to rock and roll featuring Ms. Griffith, titled Angelica. In Florida Ms. Griffith released a CD titled Merry Christmas, Love Susie. An international release of Lee Johnson’s music featuring her voice with Former President Jimmy Carter narrating is forthcoming. Ms. Griffith was the First Place Winner in the 1995 Metropolitan Opera National Council Western Region Auditions. She won first place in the 1996 Rehfuss Singing Actors Tournament Competition in cooperation with the Orlando Opera Company and is the recipient of numerous awards with many organizations. Ms. Griffith resides in the panhandle of Florida with her husband Marty and their daughter. Salon Concert sponsorships are available! CLICK HERE for more information. |
Pensacola Opera’s Salon Series Concerts feature our world-class singers in some of Northwest Florida's most elegant homes.