The Margaret Kimball Operatic Competition

Rimrock Opera of Billings, Montana

This biennial operatic competition is open to all amateur singers who are United States citizens, and residents or students of the states of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Utah. Contestants between the ages of 18-35 must submit two arias on cassette or CD. Ten finalists are invited to Billings to compete for cash awards totaling $2,000.00. The winners are invited to remain in Billings one additional day and sing in a Rimrock Opera summer concert event.

(about Margaret Kimball)

 

Application deadline:  March 19, 2007

Competition Judges

Finalists:

Sarah Kim  | Betany Coffland  |  Christopher Johnson  |  Bradley Thompson
Christie Hageman  |  Catherine Viscardi

Story:

Idaho mezzo-soprano wins Billings competiton

Betany Coffland, a mezzo-soprano from Boise, Idaho, won the Margaret Kimball Operatic Competition, presented by the Rimrock Opera Company earlier this month.

Coffland was one of six finalists who competed for a cash prize and an opportunity to be a featured performer in an upcoming ROC opera. For more of this story, click on or type the URL below:

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Final Notification: April 27, 2007

Final Competition: Friday, July 6, 2007

Winners invited to sing in the “Magic City Stars” Concert: Saturday, July 7, 2007
Tickets are available at the door for the Margaret Kimball Operatic Competition July 6, 2007 at 7 PM at MSU-B Petro Theater for $15
Click here for rules and application:  html  |  pdf

This event is sponsored by:
Henrietta Johnstone
MSU-B
Billings Gazette
YPR
 

Story:

Six singers named as finalists in ROC's Kimball competition

Douglas Nagel, Rimrock Opera artistic director, has announced the finalists in the company's biennial Margaret Kimball Operatic Competition. The six singers, chosen from a field of 26 entrants from the Northwest Region, are:

  • Christie Hageman
  • Bradley Thompson, baritone, Superior, Colo.
  • Catherine Viscardi, soprano, Bozeman
  • Betany Coffland, mezzo-soprano, Boise, Idaho
  • Sarah Kim, soprano, Henderson, Nev.
  • Christopher Johnson, baritone, Billings, currently of Bloomington, Ind.

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Story:


			
Johnstone's opera passion leads to ROC patronage

			

			

				

					
					Henrietta Johnstone
					
					
In five decades of enjoying opera, Henrietta Johnstone has met some fine opera
			stars, including Franco Carelli, Richard Tucker and Anna Moffo. 

					

					
Framed, signed programs and pictures of international stars adorn a wall in her
			home at Mission Ridge. Johnstone - Hank, to her friends - has seen more than 250
			live opera productions, and she's developed a well-defined aesthetic for opera.
			When she met Rimrock Opera Company's charismatic artistic director Doug Nagel
			several years back, she was struck not only with his vocal talent and knowledge
			but his passion for opera because it mirrored her own.

					

					
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Rimrock Opera Company members, from 
					left, Doug Nagel, Heidi Rae Kalina, Alissa Rose, Lisa 
					Lombardy, Kerry Grulzenga, Amy Logan, Carolyn Coefield, 
					Brianne Roney and Dennis Rupp serenade opera benefactor 
					Henrietta Johnstone, center, outside her home at Mission 
					Ridge in Billings.

 

				

				

					
					
BOB ZELLAR/Gazette 
					Staff

					Above:  Henrietta Johnstone stands in front of a wall 
					containing autographed pictures of world-famous opera 
					singers at her Mission Ridge residence. Johnstone, who grew 
					up listening to opera on the Victrola, has moved from fan to 
					benefactor with her launching of the Magaret Kimball 
					Operatic Competition in conjunction with the Rimrock Opera 
					Company.

 

				

			

			
Story:

			Opera competition takes top priority for Hageman

			

			Christie HagemanSomewhere 
			in the middle of Ennis Lake, the former Miss Montana Christie 
			Hageman

			may be singing a Mozart aria. 

			

			After finding out just three weeks ago that her status as alternate 
			in the

			Margaret Kimball Operatic Competition was upgraded to finalist, 
			Hageman needed

			to squeeze in some quality time with her voice. Since she and her 
			family were

			spending the week of July 4 at Ennis Lake, her mother suggested she 
			try rehearsing from a boat. Hageman objected because the water would 
			carry her voice throughout the area. Isn't that the idea when you're 
			singing an aria?

			

			Gazette Photo by James Woodcock

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