Claire Coolen, soprano,
The Young Lady
Stephanie Sadownik,
mezzo-soprano, The Woman
Jesse Wakeman, tenor
The Poet
Robert Mellon, baritone
The Man
Jazmin DeRice
The Waitress

In 2011 PORTopera Young Artists presented the first ever performance of the opera version of this wonderful and melodic work by American composer Richard Pearson Thomas. Set in a Vienna coffee house circa 1907, the plot deals with the intersecting lives of four of the shop’s patrons. This charming opera is whimsical, amusing, tuneful in only the way a piece set in romantic Vienna can be.

PORTopera Young Artists are selected through national auditions and are rising young singers on the cusps of major operatic careers. Café Vienna was performed in five locations around Maine.