Ms. Geetlein has retired from teaching singing.
Georgyn Geetlein began studies in piano at age 4 and voice lessons at
13. After three summers at Westminster Choir College, she subsequently
began study with Madame Gregory of the Curtis School in Philadelphia.
Passing up a full scholarship to Julliard, Georgyn began study with
renown Metropolitan Opera soprano, Rose Bampton. She attended and
graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts (BM), the
prestigious Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Gino Bechi, Deploma Merito),
and while acquiring a double masters degree at the Manhattan School of
Music, she sang the leading soprano roles in five Mozart operas at the
Metropolitan Opera Studio -- George Schick conducting; a contemporary
opera at Alice Tully Hall with the American Opera Company with Ransom
Wilson, and the title role in Handel's Aggrippina at Opera Barga in Italy with Sir
John Eliot Gardiner.
Upon graduation, Miss Geetlein was engaged on
Broadway (original cast) in Joseph Papp's Tony Award winning musical,
"Two Gentlemen of Verona". Career performances include opera (22
leading roles), oratorio (32 works), and in recital, among others,
programs for Italy's President Aminatore Fanfani (Rome), New York City
Mayor John Lindsay, and Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh. Opera
companies as leading soprano include: (Italy) Siena D'Antica, Lucca
Opera, Peruggia Opera, San Gimmigliano Opera, Trieste Opera, and two
appearances at the Teatro la Fenice; (US Eastern Opera Theatre,
Connecticut Opera, Piedmont Opera, Long Island Opera, and two concerts
at the Metropolitan Opera in 1987.
