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Tenor
Michael Ballam will perform a show entitled
“This Is My Country” in the Snow
Center for the Performing Arts
at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25 and 26, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets
for this Center Stage Performing Arts Series performance are on sale at the
BYU-Idaho Ticket Office by calling 496-2230. Cost is $6 for the general
public and $1 for BYU-Idaho students.
Ballam
will also conduct a free workshop for students and community members
entitled “Developing Spiritual Power and Fulfilling Our Divine
Destiny” on Saturday at 1 p.m.
in the Taylor Chapel.
His operatic repertoire includes more than 600 performances of more
than 70 major roles. He has shared the stage with the world’s
greatest singers, including Joan Sutherland, Kiri
Te Kanawa, Birgit Nilsson and Placido
Domingo, performing regularly with such companies as the Chicago Lyric, San
Francisco, Santa Fe,
Dallas, Washington,
Philadelphia, St.
Louis and San Diego
operas.
As
a recitalist, he has performed with critical acclaim in some of the most
important concert halls in the country, including the Kennedy
Center in Washington,
D.C., Orchestra Hall in Chicago,
Jordan Hall in Boston,
Jones Hall in Houston, and the Los
Angeles Music Center.
At
the age of 24, he became the youngest recipient of the degree of doctor of
music with distinction in the history of the prestigious Indiana
University. He is a professor
of music at Utah State
University in Logan and an
accomplished pianist and oboist.
He
currently serves as general director of the Utah Festival Opera, a company
he founded in 1993. It has become one of the nation’s major summer
festivals, with growing national critical acclaim.
With
all of Ballam’s professional and academic
achievements, he is most comfortable at the bedside of a terminally ill
patient singing a favorite melody of hope, or volunteering in the class
room enlightening children to the magic and wonder of Mozart and Beethoven.
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