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Tiernan Greenman, in black, plays a bullied student as he and other Hooper Elementary School students perform an opera about bullying Tuesday.

Students’ anti-bullying opera sends strong message

Last updated Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 5:59am

HOOPER — Lanette Sharp urged her Hooper Elementary School fourth-graders on Tuesday to do their best, to keep their focus and to break a leg.

“That’s what they say in opera,” Sharp told her students. “Break a leg.”

Several classes filed into the auditorium of the 660-student school for the world premiere of “Basketball Bullies,” a 12-minute opera crafted by Sharp and her 27 students.

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Hooper students perform anti-bullying opera.

Matthew Arden Hatfield

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 5:55pm

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Verona Gwen Garrard

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 11:54pm

Roy resident Verona Gwen Garrard, born April 30, 1934, died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden after an extended illness. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at the Roy Central Stake Center, 4900 S. 2000 West. A viewing will be held at Myers Roy Mortuary, 5865 S. 1900 West, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and at the church from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Friday before the service. Interment, Ben Lomond Cemetery. Post condolences at www.myers-mortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Opera entertaining -- on many different levels

Abby Payne Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 29, 2011 - 9:26am

The credits roll on a projection screen strategically positioned so that the entire audience, from mezzanine to orchestra pit, will have full view of the stage and the screen. A gentleman in a tuxedo walks on stage and gives a short introduction to the upcoming musical production.

The crowd applauds and the curtains rise. A collective breath sweeps through the crowd. Everyone's as excited as a second-grader on Christmas morning as the orchestra begins to play.

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Mezzo-soprano Qian Yi in her dressing room prior to the San Francisco Opera’s production of “Journey of The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” airing at 8 p.m. Tuesday on KUED Channel 7.

PBS offer riveting mother/daughter story in 'Bonesetter's Daughter'

Ellen Gray, Philadelphia Daily News

Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 11:47am

Television sometimes reminds me of elementary school, where every holiday demanded the production of something suitable for hanging on my mother's refrigerator.

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Kaitlyn George (center) acts in “The Rap Off,” an opera the students of Ruth Ann Miller’s class wrote and composed as they performed it for their fellow students on Thursday at E.G. King Elementary School in Layton.

King Elementary School students present their own opera

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 10:36pm

LAYTON -- Several Top of Utah teachers have turned to a program sponsored by the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater Company to encourage their students to write and compose their own operas.

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Erika Cardon plays Rosalinda and Dayne Romero plays Gabriel Von Eisenstein in “Die Fledermaus” at Weber State University. Members of the cast recently performed scenes from the operetta for students at Box Elder High School in Brigham City.

‘Fledermaus’ waltzes its way to WSU

Amy Nicholson Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 7:55pm

Opera is rarely associated with musical parody, but Johann Strauss II’s operetta “Die Fledermaus” is just that.

Weber State University’s department of performing arts, accompanied by WSU’s chamber orchestra, brings the show to the Austad Auditorium on Thursday through Saturday of next week.

Karen Brookens, head of WSU’s vocal performance and vocal pedagogy department, said she has long dreamed of directing “Die Fledermaus,” but waited for just the right group to pull it off.

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Ta’u Pupu’a played as a defensive tackle at Weber State University. He also played in the NFL, but has now transitioned careers to professional opera. Papu’a has performed in the opera “Tosca” and will be tackling the opera again in an upcoming production in New Zealand.

From turf to tenor: Former WSU player rushes opera stage

Linda East Brady

Last updated Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 9:07pm

It's always tough to serve two maestros.

Utahn Ta'u Pupu'a (Tao Poopoo-AH) learned that when he accepted a scholarship to play football for Weber State University.

Along with his grace on the playing field, Pupu'a is the owner of a rich singing voice, which has caught the ear of the opera world.

"When I went to Weber State University, I thought I could really study music and play football at the same time, because I always got A's in choir class," Pupu'a said in an interview last month in Ogden, when the now-New Yorker was in town to discuss the possibility of performing at Weber State University.

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