A BIT OF BASOTI HISTORY
BASOTI opened in 1992 serving students of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The following year we opened it up to the rest of the U.S. and abroad, catering to students from Boston, San Francisco, and Germany. The following years we expanded our auditions to New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France, and increased our faculty and staff. We have toured from Marin County, to the University of San Francisco, to Oakland's Holy Names College, and back to San Francisco where we found our home at the new San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Girls Chorus. We performed over 40 operas and countless opera scenes and arias. BASOTI has proven itself over two decades. We understand that the next generation will either preserve the finest from the opera profession or carve a new vision for it into the future.
2013 BASOTI
Institute celebrated
Letter from the Artistic and General Director, Sylvia Anderson
21 WONDERFUL PERFORMANCES, STIMULATING CLASSES, AND BEAUTIFUL SINGING AND ACTING AT THE 2013 INSTITUTE. OUR THANKS ARE BOUNDLESS, OUR HEARTS ARE FULL. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE THE 2013 SEASON SO SUCCESSFUL
With every group of young people who comes to study at BASOTI, our hopes for a better world are renewed. There is more teamwork, more unity, more enthusiasm and exciting career planning than at any time before.
There is much to be done in our world to expand our cultural participation and understanding. One of the ways to help, we believe, is to empower our young people to keep their hopes and dreams alive
through the arts.
Creating a high level of musical, artistic, philosophical and spiritual growth within our communities
will help to establish firm commitments to preserve the arts, and the education to support it.
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This is a website looks back into some of the history that helped create our educational institute for these young aspiring singers.
In 1992 we were the cutting edge of the summer training programs. There were only a few around.
Since then many have sprung up, most of them using BASOTI’s model for training singers for acting and singing simultaneously.
BASOTI has produced over 40 full operas, over 1,000 opera scenes, and given over 500 classes in foreign language diction, Alexander Technique, aria preparation, musicianship, audition skills and career coaching, and sent over 1400 students out into the “business of singing.”
We have learned from the students, as they from us, and all of us are committed to keeping opera alive and well. We are grateful for 21 years of BASOTI, and we celebrate its legacy.
WE HAVE LED THE WAY AND
WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH JOY IT HAS BEEN FOR US TO MEET AND WORK WITH ALL THE SINGERS,
FACULTY AND STAFF OVER THE YEARS.
OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN GREATLY ENRICHED. WE HAVE LEARNED ENORMOUSLY.
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OUR HOPE IS THAT ALL YOU FINE SINGERS, TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS OUT THERE WILL REMEMBER YOUR GOOD EXPERIENCES AT BASOTI, AND BE HAPPY.
Sincerely, your devoted fans,
Sylvia Anderson
and
Matthias Kuntzsch
IF YOU WISH, YOU CAN RESPOND OR ASK US QUESTIONS HERE AT THIS WEBSITE USING THE BOX ON THE "GUEST BOOK" PAGE OR YOU CAN WRITE US AT [email protected].
The BASOTI Book of Memories that we have created can be ordered on
the "Guest Book" page.
HERE ARE PHOTOS FROM OUR 2013 FULL PRODUCTIONS
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by Benjamin Britten
100th Birthday Celebration
Director, Hector Correa, Conductor, Codrut Birsan,
Pianist, Kevin Korth,
Costumes, Sylvia Gregory
ADMETO, BY HANDEL
U.S. PREMIER 2013
Director, "Chip Grant," Conductor, Sam Emanuel, Rehearsal Pianist, Dan Cromeenes, Costumes, Sylvia Gregory
with Chamber Orchestra
Britten's TURN OF THE SCREW, in honor of his 100th Birthday
Director, Rod Gomez, Conductor, Lloyd Arriola, Pianist, Ben Malkovitch,
Costumes, Sylvia Gregory
VERDI'S "FALSTAFF" in honor of his 200th Birthday
Director, Michael Mohammed, Rehearsal Pianists, Lloyd Arriola, Sam Emanuel, Conductor Matthias Kuntzsch,
Costumes, Sylvia Gregory
with full orchestra
