Rising Opera Star Who Will be at Quick
Center to be Featured in PBS Documentary

Amber Wagner, who will perform at St. Bonaventure University during the 2010-2011 season, will be prominently featured Wednesday in the PBS documentary “The Audition.”

The film, which airs at 9 p.m. on WPSX-TV (Channel 3 in Bradford) and WNED-TV (channel 13 in Olean), follows a group of young singers through the tense preparations leading up the Metropolitan Opera national auditions.

On Saturday, Wagner emerged from a field of 287 contestants to win first prize at the 2010 Liederkranz Competition in New York City. She was also awarded the Quick Center for the Arts Performance Prize. Wagner sang arias from the operas “Ernani” and “Cavalleria Rusticana.”

Wagner lives near Chicago and studies and performs at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. A date has not been set for her appearance at the Quick Center.

Joseph A. LoSchiavo, associate vice president and executive director of the Quick Center, served as a finalist judge and Ludwig Brunner, Quick Center director of programming, was a judge for the preliminaries and finals.

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