Return of the Soprano

As students begin fall classes, Soprano Kamala Stroup Rocher, HSU Class of ’91, returns to campus for a voice recital featuring the works of Debussy, Strauss, Mozart and Verdi.

For this recital on Monday evening, August 25, she will be accompanied on piano by Nancy Correll, her friend and accompanist from college days.

Rocher now lives in France, and performs there frequently. She has sung in Paris, London and the San Francisco Bay area. In addition to solo performances, she has sung various opera roles with San Francisco Lyric Opera, Golden Gate Opera, Oakland Lyric Opera and other ensembles.

Locally, she has been a guest performer for the HSU Alumni Benefit Recital Series, as well as solo appearances on behalf of the Redwood AIDS Information Network and the North Coast AIDS Project.

Her program at HSU will include songs by Austrian composer Ricard Strauss, and French composers Claude Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn and Henri Duparc. She will sing some of her favorite arias from operas by Mozart, Gluck and Verdi.

Kamala Stroup Rocher performs on Monday, August 25 at 8 p.m. in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door.