Sophie Tanapura:
CLASS OF 1968
General H.H. Arnold High SchoolClass of 1968
Wiesbaden,
Hollins College - Liberal ArtsClass of 1972
Roanoke, VA
Sophie's Story
Life
My Spouse
I met Pakdee in Paris, France during my years of study there.
My Kids
My son's name is Norawit -- nickname "Nor" . He's crazy about airplanes and attended the Aviation Challenge course organized by NASA in Fresno, California. He attended Ruam Rudee International School in Bangkok until 9th grade. After having spent his last highschool years in Salt Lake City, Nor is now graduating this year (May 2009)with a BSc in aerospace engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He plays classical piano, soccer, practices kendo and loves to snowboard.
Workplace
After running around as a freelance journalist covering international stories and interviews at the Versailles Summit, New Delhi Non-Aligned Summit (1984) and the Tsukuba Science Fair (1986), I moved back to Bangkok with my husband, Pakdee. I started out running a small news office but then decided to help my husband set up a graphic and printing busine...Expand for more
ss which was and still is a more commercial activity. Export orders are now 60% of our turnover and our biggest clients are French publishing companies.
In the meantime, I have also set up Ibycus Co. Ltd. to act as a concert and event organizing agency. The agency managed the Ibycus Chamber Orchestra between 1986-1994. Since then, Ibycus is also running the Ibycus Concert Series in Bangkok. After having taught voice for more than 10 years, I founded the Metropolitan Opera of Bangkok in 2005. Our first opera production was a piano version of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz in October 2005. Four years later, now in 2009, the M.O.B. is producing the Weber once again with the collaboraton of J. David Jackson, a staff conductor of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and Colin Schumacher, a seasoned stage director from Sydney. In between, the opera company has staged Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Strauss' Die Fledermaus.
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