Luther College sophomore Kristy Housholder of West Des Moines performs in Fall Opera Scenes

2013 Nov 8

Kristy Housholder, Luther College sophomore, of West Des Moines, Iowa, is performing in the fall opera scenes program "Duels, Divorce, and Divas: The Drama Unraveled" at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, in the Noble Recital Hall of the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music on the Luther campus.

The performances are open to the public with no charge for admission.

Housholder, the daughter of Sally and Mike Housholder of West Des Moines, graduated from Waukee High School in 2012, and is majoring in music and psychology at Luther.

Directed by Luther College professors Karen Kanakis and Jacob Lassetter, the program will feature scenes drawn from well-known operas, including Puccini's "La traviata," Offenbach's "Les contes d'Offmann," Beethoven's "Fidelio," Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Verdis "Falstaff," Moore's "The Ballad of Baby Doe" and Tchaikovsky's "Eugene OnA?gin."

Kanakis holds a bachelor's degree in music from Missouri State University, a master's degree in music from Stephen F. Austin State University and a doctor of musical arts from the University of North Texas. A Rotary International Graduate Scholar, she also studied at the Staatliche Hochschule fA?r Musik Westfalen-Lippe in Germany.

Lassetter holds a bachelor's degree in music from Louisiana State University, a master's degree in music from The University of North Texas, and a doctor of musical arts from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

A national liberal arts college with an enrollment of 2,500, Luther offers an academic curriculum that leads to the bachelor of arts degree in 60 majors and preprofessional programs. For more information about Luther visit the college's website: www.luther.edu.