THIS SOPRANO OPERA SINGER HAS A SPIRITUAL BELIEF IN HER CALLING!!!
North Bergen’s Julia Rolwing tells us that she loves her profession, and lives up to it every day! Ms. Rolwing, who has achieved a doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Miami, also tells us that she comes from a family of academics and athletes. Her parents Richard and Patricia are retired from their professions as a professor of theology and English teacher, respectively!
She also has three brothers, Jonathan, Richard, and Patrick, and a sister Mary. The family lives in the state of Ohio.
Ms. Rolwing, who has also lived in Miami, Fla., for a time, tells us that she also achieved a Master of Arts degree in vocal pedagogy from Ohio State University, of course before achieving her doctoral degree in the state of Florida.
This past October, 2006, Ms. Rolwing, who is an award-winning soprano, sang the role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s Opera Die Walkur at the Rose of Sharon Family Life Center in Plainfield. The opera, translated as The Valkyrie, a mythic female warrior angel based on Nordic mythology, is the second opera from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, a group of four operas that tell one complete story!
Ms. Rolwing is also the recent recipient of the Anna Sosenko Artist Assist Trust award and a two-time winner in the Yrjo Kilpinen International Art Song Competition, as well as being a winner of several teaching awards.
Ms. Rolwing who loves singing Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi, is also the artist-in-residence at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fairview, where she maintains a private studio of students. She teaches students from the age of 9 to the age of retirees, who come from all over North and Central New Jersey!
This coming December, 2006, Ms. Rolwing will be singing the role of the mother in the Opera Company of the Highland’s production of the wonderful children’s opera entitled Amahl and the Night Visitors. Furthermore, in April 2007 she will be making her debut in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra in Upstate New York! Having performed in various lead roles in opera and concert, and in various parts of the United States and also in the country of Austria, Ms. Rolwing can be contacted at her business telephone number (201) 854-7044 or at her Internet Web site e-mail: jrolwing@earthlink.net, for readers who may be interested in upcoming operas and events, and other information, as requested! The singers of the Rolwing Voice Studio in Fairview also perform in recitals, and professional pianist Natalia Rozinskaia, a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York City who lives in Montvalle, will also be there performing this November 2006. Julia Rolwing, sing on, sing on to fame and good fortune!!!…
Union City Deputy Mayor Nicholas Mastorelli, who is a Union City native who lived in Secaucus for approximately 15 years, tells us that while in Secaucus he was a member of The 3 O’Clock Club there. This club was, as Mastorelli tells us, an elite group of men who were and still are of good stature in their community, and they were also active in civic and charity affairs! They are: George Heflich, Ed Rittberg, Stu Kopp, Joseph Bienkowski, Lou Vitalano, Carmine Ross, Harry Wonesky, Richard Steffens, and their standard bearer Steve Natoli!
Nick “the whizzer” Mastorelli, is a man who seems to know everyone as well as being involved in almost everything at one time or another! Thanks for the info, Saint Nicholas!!!…
The Famous Park Players of Weehawken will be performing this coming April 2007 at the Weehawken Elks Lodge, performing Arsenic and Old Lace in their upcoming season of events. Interested? Call (201) 941-6030! Remember, you read it here!!!…
Tatjana Jelacic of Guttenberg has achieved academic honors at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair. A good scholar, continue to make us proud!!!…
The new principal of Saint Joseph’s of the Palisades High School in West New York, Bruce Segall, was recently inducted via the New Principals Orientation Program at the Catholic Archdiocesan Center in Newark. Have a successful tenure of office!!!… North Bergen Commissioner Hugo Cabrera, we hear is liked by many township residents because of his being around and about his community and listening to his fellow township neighbors! Keep up the great work, Hugo!…
What’s this we hear?! Retired Weehawken Mayor Stanley Iacono was said to be fondly known as the greatest thing since Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Doctor Pepper!!! Why not, no argument here! He’s a good man! And away we go!!!…
Ditto the Hudson Reporter’s political columnist we hear is well on his way to becoming Hudson County’s “premier” political columnist! Again, no argument here! Everywhere this columnist goes in North Hudson County, and I also live in Jersey City, South Hudson County, I am always asked about our own Al Sullivan, which fills me with pride! Which also tells us that we are well read as a newspaper!!!…
My wholehearted “thanks” to Erika Muller, the very lovely daughter of the legendary Muller Insurance Company of Hoboken family, who resides in Secaucus, for her kind note-card mailed to my residence, telling me that she reads “On the Streets Where We Live” and she “loves it!” Erika, thanks, and all the best to you, too!…
And so it goes….until next time…see you around town. – Matt
Readers who want to contribute to this column can do so by mailing your news items and photos, along with your name, address and telephone number to Matthew Amato, columnist, c/o the Hudson Reporter, 1400 Washington St., Hoboken, New Jersey 07030. Thank you!