Singer to Head Programs for Young Singers

Twenty-five years after winning the George London Foundation Award for
young singers, Sheri Greenawald was named to head what is arguably the
country's largest organization for opera training programs.  When SF Opera
general manager Pamela Rosenberg announced that Greenawald will be the next
director of the SF Opera Center, effective next May, the soprano became the
first singer to occupy the position in the Center's 20-year history.
Greenawald is succeeding Richard Harrell, who resigned last month.

The Center includes the Merola Opera Program (created by Kurt Herbert
Adler in 1957), the Adler Fellowship Program, Western Opera Theater and the
Schwabacher Debut Recitals - all involved with training young singers and
providing support and performance opportunities for them.

Greenawald is returning to San Francisco, where he lived for five years in
the 1980s, calling the move "a return to home." While still in the middle
of a successful international singing career (a likely cause of the awkward
seven-month delay in starting the job), Greenawald has been involved in
teaching and coaching in recent years.  First serving as the vocal coach in
the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program in 1999, she became opera director of
the program last year.  She is also a professor of voice and opera at the
Boston Conservatory, and has given master classes at the Opera Theatre of
St.  Louis and elsewhere.

Janos Gereben/SF
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