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ANNA BINNEWEG (Music Director) has distinguished herself in the areas of
symphonic and operatic conducting early in her career. Recently appointed
the Orchestra Director at Loyola University and Music Director/Conductor of
the Anne Arundel Community Orchestra in Maryland, Anna holds a Doctorate of
Music degree in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University. While at
Northwestern, she served as the Assistant Conductor to Victor Yampolsky of
the Northwestern Symphony Orchestra and assisted with opera productions
including Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Verdi's Falstaff. In 2005, Ms.
Binneweg made her performance debut at the Kennedy Center with the National
Symphony Orchestra as one of four finalists for the 2005 National Conducting
Institute and currently serves as one of their cover conductors. For
OperaModa, she has conducted Little Women, Tartuffe, and The Dialogues Of
The Carmelites. Ms. Binneweg has been accepted as a conducting fellow to
music festivals including Brevard in North Carolina, the Conductors
Institute of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the Conductors
Institute in NY, and has participated in conducting workshops sponsored by
the American Symphony Orchestra League and Conductors Guild.
MARY LUTZ (Artistic Director) has worked with OperaModa since its inception in 2003. Prior to her work with the company, she worked as an assistant marketing director and properties manager for Shoestring Opera in Evanston; while at Northwestern, she was a founding member of Northwestern's annual Freshman Musicale and an active member of the operatic outreach program. Mary has also assistant directed and worked behind the scenes with northern-Virginia based KMT Musical Theater on shows such as Godspell, Brigadoon, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma, Carousel, and Guys and Dolls, as well as programming and directing three musical revues for the company. She also serves as coordinator of outreach for OperaModa and is thrilled to have this opportunity to bring modern opera to the community.
STACY RATNER (Creative Director) has spent a decade designing for clients including Open Books, The Nanotechnology Alliance, Sittercity, Driveitaway, Wired Business, Ionospeed, Snapdragon Technologies, The Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association, Brown University, Northwestern University, Dover Saddlery, Bits & Pieces, Harvard Translations, The MIT Press, The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, and The Conference On Computers, Freedom, & Privacy. A graduate of Brandeis University and Boston College Law School, she is delighted to be working with the creative artistes of OperaModa.
GENEVIEVE THIERS (Executive Director), a graduate of Boston College and Oxford University, has had the lead role in numerous operas, operettas and Shakespeare plays including Constance in Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites, Patience in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience and Despina in Cosi fan tutte. She has sung with the Longwood Opera Company, the Chrysalis Opera company and Operatunities and has received several vocal awards, including the North Shore Musicians Club 2003 Scholarship, the Latetia M. Blain soloist award in 2000, and the Philadelphia Naval award for singing in 1996. Genevieve is the founder and CEO of Sittercity, Inc, a national childcare corporation serving hundreds of thousands of users in 20 cities nationally. Genevieve has interviewed about Sittercity.com with TIME, Bloomberg, CNN, E! Entertainment Network, Crain's Chicago Business, Newsday, WGN, WBEZ, WNUR, the Boston Herald, the Chicago Sun-Times, and many other media outlets.
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