Robin Blauers began her career as a singer in such roles as Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Blondchen in Die Enführung aus dem Serail, Gilda in Rigoletto, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and La Fee in Cendrillon.
After winning the prestigious Jenny Lind competition, she was featured in a concert tour of Sweden with appearances on National Radio, Television and a recital for the Ambassador at the American Embassy in Stockholm. Following those performances Ms. Blauers was engaged by the Consortium Felicianum Orchestra for tours of Germany and France.
Having been involved in arts education for over ten years, Ms. Blauers was a Teaching Artist for the Bushnell Performing Arts Center Partners program and was the founder and producing stage director for The Company, a children’s music and theater program at The Hartt School.
From 2004 – 2006 Ms. Blauers was a Visiting Professor in Opera at The Hartt School, teaching classes in acting/scenes classes to graduate and undergraduates. While at Hartt she directed productions of Susannah by Carlisle Floyd, the Rape of Lucretia Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten, Dialogues of the Carmelites by Fancis Poulenc, as well as selections from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Die Zauberflöte.
A frequent guest director for the Intermezzo Music Festival in the US, Ms. Blauers has directed Puccini’s Sour Angelica, Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites and will return for the 2009 Intermezzo festival in Brugge, Belgium to direct the European Premiere of Little Women.
Additional directing credits include The Fantasticks, Titanic, West Side Story, Kiss Me Kate, Into the Woods, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty and the Beast, Carousel, Guys and Dolls, Annie, Camelot, Cinderella, Evita, Company, and The Sound of Music. Will Roger’s Follies and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
She has directed student productions of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Euripides’ Andromache, and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
Her productions have appeared at the Hartford Civic Center and on CBS, Connecticut Public Television, WTIC Radio and National Public Radio. Ms. Blauers was educated at The Watkinson School, Universität Heidelberg and did graduate work in European History and Women’s Studies at Trinity College. He studied acting and directing at HB Studios in New York.
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