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New Rochelle, NY, October 27, 2000 - Ross Benoliel, baritone, will be a featured singer in "It's a Grand Night for Grand Opera," a concert of opera favorites, presented by the New Rochelle Opera Company and the Iona College Council on the Arts. The concert will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2000 at 8 pm in Joyce Auditorium on the Iona College campus, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. Tickets for general admission are $10; tickets for students and seniors are $5, available at the door.

Mr. Benoliel grew up on Beechmont Drive in New Rochelle, where his parents still reside. He is a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and is a year 2000 national semifinalist of the MacAllister Awards for Opera Singers. In 1998, he was a finalist of the Friedrich Schorr Memorial Prize in Voice. He holds a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from the University of Michigan School of Music.

His repertoire includes Aeneas in Didi and Aeneas, Guglielmo in Cosi fant tutte, Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore, the High Priest in Semele, the Speaker in The Magic Flute and Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi.

Other singers include tenor Jorge Alzadon, soprano Maria Ciccaglione, soprano Cynthia Firing, soprano Yui-Yi Lin and baritone Alassandro Magno performing selections from The Barber of Seville, La Boheme, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, La Forza del Destino, La Giocanda, Lakme, Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Manon Lescaut and more.

For more additional information, please telephone (914) 637-7796.

For questions or more information please contact:
Meghan Finn
Public Relations Office
Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801
tel: 914 633-2005 fax: 914 637-2711

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