San Francisco Cabaret Opera
The Cast of Dioclesian and Diocletian
Mark Alburger is an award-winning ASCAP composer of postminimal, postpopular,
and postcomedic sensibilities, published by New Music. He is Music Director of
San Francisco Cabaret Opera and San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Instructor
in Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College and St. Mary's College,
Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Journal, oboist, pianist, vocalist, recording
artist, musicologist, author, and music critic. He began playing the oboe and
composing in association with Dorothy and James Freeman, George Crumb, and Richard
Wernick; and studied with Karl Kohn at Pomona College, Joan Panetti and Gerald
Levinson at Swarthmore College (B.A.), Jules Langert at Dominican
University (M.A.), Roland Jackson at Claremont Graduate University
(Ph.D.), and Terry Riley. Among his 174 opus numbers are 12 concertos,
11 chamber ensemble pieces, 4 masses, 20 operas, 2 piano suites, 11 song
cycles, 9 symphonies, and a five-hour work-in-progress opera-oratorio (The
Bible). Sex and Delila, in preparation for next Spring's
Sex and
the Bible, will receive its premiere this May during SF Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices
IX Festival. 
Soprano Kimberly Anderman is thrilled to participate in Goat Hall SF Cabaret
Opera’s 2008-09 season, singing the role of Drusilla in both Henry Purcell’s
and Mark Alburger’s settings of Dioclesian and Ismene in Alburger’s
Antigone.
She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Chapman University,
where she studied with famed opera diva Carol Neblett. In addition to opera,
Kimberly has performed with over a dozen choirs at both the amateur and professional
level, including the world-renowned William Hall Master Chorale. Most recently,
she was featured on the recording of Janis Dunson Wilson’s Walking
in the Light of Christ, was the Soprano Soloist for the 2007 and 2008 Sebastopol Center for the
Arts Sing-Along Messiah, covered Fiordiligi in Cinnabar’s 2008 production of
Cosi fan tutte, and was featured in four recitals in 2008 with Project Applause, a
Sonoma County-based fundraising organization.
Skye Atman performs regularly as pianist with many leading Bay Area soloists and
ensembles and is a highly regarded vocal coach and accompanist. She is a versatile
musician who enjoys working with theatrical companies such as Berkeley Repertory
Theater, Berkeley Opera, North Bay Opera, the Mendocino Music Festival, the Youth
Musical Theater Company, and the Marin Theater. She has been Assistant Music Director
at Oakland Opera Theater for the past 8 years. Skye completed her graduate studies in
accompanying with Jean Barr at the University of Southern California and worked as a
free-lance musician in Los Angeles and London before moving to Berkeley in the ‘90s.
Annemarie Ballinger, soprano, is happy to be back singing with Goat Hall Productions! She was last seen with the company as Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte. Other roles include Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflote with City Summer Opera and Gretel in Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel with Golden Gate Opera. Musical theater roles include: Cinderella in Into the Woods with San Francisco Lyric Theater, Amalia in She Loves Me, Sidonie in Roberta, and Nellie in Sweet Adeline with San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon Productions.
Soprano
Alison Collins' singing has been described as “effortless and
unhurried,” featuring “high notes with ease.” (Lisa Millegen, The
Modesto Bee). Last spring, she traveled to Shanghai, where she sang the
soprano solos in Carmina Burana with Ballet San José on their goodwill
tour. Ms. Collins specializes in the lyric coloratura and light lyric
concert repertoire, and also relishes comedic roles such as Papagena in
Die Zauberflöte, and the offbeat Sugar Plum Fairy in Rusty Magee's
Flurry Tale.Ms. Collins' performances include Marie in The Daughter of the Regiment, Gilda in Rigoletto, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Ann Page in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. She has performed the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah with Symphony Silicon Valley, and the Fauré Requiem with the Winchester Orchestra. Recently, Ms. Collins appeared in the title role of Henry Mollicone’s Starbird. The composer commented, “She stepped in as a replacement to do the title role of my opera Starbird, and learned it in one week— an amazing feat! Her singing is always musical, sensitive, and beautiful, with lovely bell-like tones in the upper register.”
Ms. Collins performed as a young artist with Des Moines Metro Opera, Virginia Opera, Portland Repertory Opera, and Sarasota Opera where she was awarded the Richard F. Gold Career Grant. She has performed as a soloist with Opera San José, Stockton Opera Association, Intermountain Opera Chamber Ensemble, American Opera Projects, West Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, and Townsend Opera Players. She has served as member of the voice faculties of San José State University, and Chabot College.
Kat Cornelius has performed with a number of opera companies in the a Bay Area including the Martinez Opera, the Berkeley Opera, and, of course, Goat Hall Productions. She has also performed at Stanford University, where she portrayed Jenny Lind in a recreation of an 1851 concert.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of South Dakota and now lives in San Francisco. 
Soprano, Robin Costa, has sung as a member of the Opera San José chorus since the
fall of 2004 and was most recently seen with that company in Cosi Fan Tutte. She has performed
Nadia Boulanger’s Les Heures Claires for the CSUEB Musica Delle Donne series and the soprano
solos in the Messiah for the Ohlone Chamber Orchestra. Recent roles performed include Susanna
Walcott in OSJ’s production of The Crucible and the Josephine cover in HMS Pinafore with
Lamplighters Music Theatre. Other roles portrayed include Mariane in Tartuffe, Susanna in
Le Nozze di Figaro, and Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte. In 2005, miss Costa had the honor of
singing as one of seven finalists in the Stewart Brady Competition. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree
in vocal performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Arts degree in
music from San José State University. Durand Garcia, Fight Choreographer, is also an actor, director and acting coach. He’s performed in over 40 plays and in leading roles in San Francisco and Santa Fe. As a Fight Director, Mr. Garcia has worked with the Sacramento Opera, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Anima Mundi Dance Co., Last Planet Theatre Co., Shotgun Players, Dragon Productions Theatre, Notre Dame de Namur University, Shady Shakespeare, Teatro Didactico Popular, Pinole Valley High School etc. and is the resident Fight Director for African-American Shakespeare Co. Mr. Garcia has given acting classes at St. John’s University and New College of California. Currently he is on the faculty of the Academy of Art University where he teaches Stage Combat (the art of theatrical violence). Currently he is in the second year of the Masters in Drama program at SFSU.
Alexandra Jerinic has been singing since the age of 13. She earned her B.A.
in Music at Mills College, where she attended on the Carol Donner Music Scholarship,
and her Master’s of Music from Notre Dame de Namur University. An active performer,
she made her debut with San Francisco Cabaret Opera (Goat Hall Productions) last
summer as Candy in Mark Alburger’s Of Mice and Men, and went on to perform the role
of Antigone’s Handmaiden in Alburger’s Antigone last fall. At N.D.N.U, she performed
the roles of The Portrait in The Tales of Hoffman and Christine in Offenbach’s
Genevieve:
The New Woman. Other stage credits include The Mikado and 2008 Fundraising Gala, Mock the
Vote, with Lamplighters Music, and La Bohéme with San Francisco Lyric Opera. Upcoming
performances include The Housekeeper in Stefan Weisman’s Fade, another S.F. Cabaret
Opera production, in late May. 
Soprano Erin Lahm has been actively performing in the bay area since moving
here a year ago. Most recently, she made her debut with Mission City Opera as
Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro. Ms. Lahm appeared earlier this season with the
San Francisco Cabaret Opera as a Quark Sister in Quantum Mechanic, Second Guard
in Antigone, and Slim in Mice Suites. Over the course of two summers, Ms. Lahm
was a resident artist at the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera in
Oderzo, Italy where she performed as a soloist in a series of concerts throughout
the area. She has also been a soloist with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. Ms.
Lahm earned her Master of Music in voice from Binghamton University where she was
featured as the soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat with the University Chorus.
Alumni of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program,
Alexander Katsman received his M.M. from
St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and his B.M. cum laude from Mussorgsky College
of Music in St.Petersburg, Russia. Since his arrival in the United States, Alexander has been sought after as a conductor and collaborative pianist. He conducted for Opera San Jose, West Bay Opera, Martinez Opera, Bayshore Lyric Opera, Berkeley Opera, Oakland Lyric Opera, Solo Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Livermore Valley Opera, Diablo Light Opera, Opera Academy of California, and also at CalState University East Bay and Diablo Valley College.
His conducting credits include, among others, productions of La Traviata, Un Ballo in maschera, Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Der Rosenkavalier, Faust, Rigoletto, La Juive, Andrea Chenier, L’italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Carmen, The Magic Flute, Manon, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Die Fledermaus, Orfeo et Euridice, The Merry Widow, Kismet, Sweeney Todd, The Student Prince, Carousel, and The Most Happy Fella.
Mr. Katsman serves on conducting and coaching faculties of Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute and Peninsula Teen Opera. He is also on the coaching staff at the San Francisco Conservatory, Opera San Jose and at the Holy Names University. As pianist he collaborated with such artists as Brian Asawa, John Bellemer, Victoria Litherland, Stephen Guggenheim, Christina Lamberti, Svetlana Nikitenko and others.
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia,
Maria Mikheyenko has sung with the
Russian Chamber Orchestra, has been a guest artist at the San Francisco
Russian Festival, and presents recitals of Russian Romances throughout
the Bay Area. Ms. Mikheyenko’s opera roles include Susanna (Le nozze di
Figaro), Saffi (The Gypsy Baron), Lucy (The Telephone), and Drusilla
(L’incoronazione di Poppea). She has sung with Berkeley Opera, Pocket
Opera, Capitol Opera Sacramento, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Opera
Lafayette, Oakland Opera Theater, and the Austrian American Mozart
Academy of Salzburg. In the world of contemporary music, Ms.
Mikheyenko is a frequent collaborator with Bay Area composers. She has
performed in three world premiere works by Lisa Scola Prosek: Leonardo’s
Notebooks, Belfagor, and Trap Door. With San Francisco Cabaret Opera,
she has portrayed Lennie Small in Mark Alburger’s Of Mice and Men, the
Sentry in his Antigone, and a Quark Sister in John Bilotta’s award-winning
short opera, Quantum Mechanic. Ms. Mikheyenko has also been a guest
artist with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, has
appeared twice on the national radio show West Coast Live!, and joined
Grammy-award winning singer/composer/choreographer Meredith Monk
with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble in several performances of her world
premiere work, Songs of Ascension. For more information on upcoming
events, please visit www.MariaMikheyenko.com
Harriet March Page has pursued a life-long
obsession with the arts, as actor, singer, writer, director, producer. Reeling off the decades,
the 1970s was grand opera in and about the San Francisco Bay Area; 1980s, acting in plays and
musicals with the Los Altos Conservatory Theatre; 1990s, writing and performing autobiographical
monologues in San Francisco and producing monthly Sunday Salons; and the 2000s directing and
producing as Artistic Director for San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, whose
mission is presenting contemporary opera in English and premiering new opera theater by Bay Area
composers in a cabaret setting. After five years devoted to new music almost exclusively, March
Page is very excited about entering a new phase with our 2008-2009 season, which includes not
only new music but also Mozart (in Italian!), Purcell, Menotti, and more!
Lithuanian-Canadian soprano, Indre Viskontas, is thrilled to be making her debut with San Francisco Cabaret Opera. Miss Viskontas’s operatic
roles range from The Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro to the
title role in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. Recent operatic
performance highlights include Beth in Mark Adamo’s Little Women at
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Kate in John Estacio’s
Frobisher at the Banff Summer Arts Festival, and Heart's Desire in
Arthur Sullivan's The Rose of Persia with the Lyric Theater of San
Jose. Miss Viskontas is also an avid performer of chamber music and a
regular soloist with The Classical Revolution, performing bimonthly in
the Bay Area. Miss Viskontas holds a Master of Music degree from the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in
Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles
and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
Upcoming performances with San Francisco Cabaret Opera include Aurelia
in Purcell's Dioclesian in April and The Water Nymph in David Heuser’s
The Golden Ax in May.