Capital Music Professor Gene Allen To Perform Wednesday

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Capital University
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Friday, Nov. 10, 2006–Gene Allen, tenor and professor of music at Capital University’s Conservatory of Music, will perform as part of the Faculty Recital Series at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Huntington Recital Hall, located on Capital’s Bexley campus, 1 College and Main.

The performance, titled “Songs of Love,” will include works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Stephano Donaudy, John Duke, Richard Hageman, Fernando Obradors, Augustine Lara and Richard Strauss. Larry Lane (’70) will accompany on piano. The performance is free and open to the public.

Allen teaches Studio Voice and vocal and music theatre classes. He has performed roles with major opera companies throughout the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Ft. Worth Opera, Cincinnati Opera and Birmingham Opera. He has sung in several productions with Cleveland Opera, including the premiere of Stewart Copeland's “Holy Blood” and “Crescent Moon,” and has performed roles in opera productions with Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Opera Columbus including Lt. Pinkerton in “Madam Butterfly,” Rodolfo in “Boheme” and Don Ottavio in “Don Giovanni.”

In addition to opera performances in Columbus, he has performed tenor solos in concert productions with Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Chorus that include Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven‘s Missa Solemnis, Mozart’s Requiem and Verdi’s Requiem. In ventures into the world of musical theatre, he has performed the roles of The Padre in “Man of La Mancha,” Tony in “The Most Happy Fella” and the title role in “Christopher Columbus.”He is an active competition adjudicator and has served on the Music Panel of The Ohio Arts Council and on the Opera Theatre Panel of the Michigan Council of the Arts and Cultural Affairs.

For 15 seasons he was tenor Artist-in-Residence at Bay View Music Festival. His students have performed in major opera houses and concert halls in this country and in Europe.