19,20 November 2004, Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo, Ireland
23 November 2004, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland
25 November 2004, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
27 November 2004, Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork, Ireland
29 November 2004, Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ireland
2,4 December 2004, The Helix, Dublin, Ireland
The Opera Theatre Company
Chief Executive: Andrew McLellan
Director: Annilese Miskimmon
Musical Director: David Brophy
Designer: Neil Irish
Lighting Designer: Tina MacHugh
Movement Director: Linda Dobell
Video Artist: Ciara Moore
STARRING
Jonathan Peter Kenny ~ Charlotte Page ~ Eugene Ginty ~ Alan Fairs
THE CATCHALLS
Rebekah Coffey ~ Carolyn Dobbin ~ Shirley Keane ~ Bridget Knowles ~ Elizabeth Woods
THE VERA BAND
Piano / Conductor Clarinet / Soprano Sax / Alto Sax / Bass Clarinet / Alto Flute Acoustic Bass / Fretless Electric Bass Percussion |
David Brophy Ken Edge Joe Csibi Noel Eccles |
26, 27 June 2003
(four performances)
The Center for Contemporary Opera
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space
New York City, USA
Producer: Richard Marshall
Musical Director: Robert Frankenberry ~ Stage Director: Charles Maryan
Choreographer: Bruce Heath
STARRING
Shequida ~ Patricia Dell ~ Elem Eley ~ Dillon McCartney
THE CATCHALLS
Nicole Cherniak Hyde ~ Karen Jolicoeur ~ Tara Venditti
Gilda Lyons ~ Alison Quinn McConekey ~ Karie Brown
Rebekkah Ross ~ Lisa Hargus
THE VERA QUARTET
Piano / Conductor Clarinet / Soprano Sax / Alto Sax / Bass Clarinet / Alto Flute Acoustic Bass / Fretless Electric Bass Drums |
Robert Frankenberry Paul Garment Jeff Carney Jeff Kraus |
SHEQUIDA has been cast to star as Vera. This Juilliard-trained opera singer has more to offer than an already impressive five-octave vocal range. Shequida is witty, charming, a linguist, and a skilled dancer. Michael Musto of the Village Voice said, "with that voice, Shequida brings together the bourgeoisie and the unwashed masses in bravos." After many successful European tours, Shequida signed a deal with USA Network as their spokesmodel for Latin America and Brazil. Shequida then played the lead role in the film, "The Agony of Masks" and had a recurring role on the ABC daytime drama "One Life To Live", as Club Indigo's mixologist, Wendi Mercury. |
ELEM ELEY has been cast to star as Dumdum. Mr. Eley will appear this season at Lincoln Center (Handel’s Messiah), with the New Jersey Symphony (Faure’s Requiem), the Charlotte Symphony, the Calvin Oratorio Society, as well as in recital performances of Summers’ Hamlet Songs prior to recording them. He debuted in Europe last season as the Don in Don Giovanni at the Operafestival di Roma. As Winner of the Joy in Singing Award, he presented his New York recital debut in 1996 at Merkin Hall. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1995 as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Westminster Choir under Joseph Flummerfelt. Recent engagements included concerts with the Symphony Orchestras of Kansas City, New Jersey, Sioux City, Springfield and Syracuse, the Fairfield County Chorale, the Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center, the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the New York Chamber Ensemble in its 10th Anniversary Mahlerthon, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia and Princeton Pro Musica, a recital at Weill Hall to begin the new millennium, and Schubert’s Winterreise at Westminster Choir College. |
8,9,10 March 1996
The University of Nevada Opera Theater Orchestra & Chorus
Ham Concert Hall, Las Vegas
Conductor: Donna Hagen
Executive Producer: Daron Hagen
Producer: Benjamin Milstein
Chorus Master: Lynn Trippy
Recording Engineers: George Safire, Jeff Basso
Mastering Engineer: Adrian Carr
Doll Dumdum Taco Vera |
Carolann Page Paul Kreider Patrick Jones Charles Maxwell |
Violin A (Concertmaster) Violin B Viola Cello A Cello B Contrabass Oboe / English Horn Clarinet 1 / Soprano Sax / Bass Clarinet Clarinet 2 / Alto Sax / Bass Clarinet Bassoon Trumpet Trombone Drum Kit Percussion Acoustic Guitar Acoustic Guitar / Electric Lead Guitar Electric Bass Fretless Bass Acoustic Yamaha Piano Clavinova P-100 Keyboard Alesis Qs6.1 Synthesizer Orchestral Vocalist 1 Orchestral Vocalist 2 Orchestral Vocalist 3 |
Teresa Ling Martha Gronemeier Bernadette Bedia Andrew Smith Timothy Stanley Kevin Thomas Juanita Tune Steven Dawson Dan Philippus Janis McKay Daniel Pass Nathan Tanouye Chris Benham Samuel Provost* Priscilla Shoals Abe Rein Christopher David Benjamin Milstein* Lynn Trippy Rachel Eckroth Daron Hagen* Gilda Lyons* Samuel Provost* Aaron English* |
PAUL MULDOON, Pulitzer Prize-winning Librettist, was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked
in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the
Humanities at Princeton University. In 1999 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001)
and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 1997 Irish Times
Poetry Prize. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War." |
DARON HAGEN, Composer. Daron's music is variously described as "utterly brilliant" (New York Times), "dazzling," (The New Yorker), "big, bold, and glittering" (The Los Angeles Times), and "of considerable artistic achievement and of uncompromising seriousness" (Times of London Literary Supplement). He has been described as "an inspired melodist" (Fanfare), possessed of "a sophisticated, wide-ranging musical mind" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), and the creator of "dangerously beautiful melodies" (New York Post). "Daron is music." (Opera News). The composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal compositions, as well as film scores and five internationally-performed operas, Hagen's work has been a programming staple of world-class orchestras and soloists since his debut as a composer (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1983) and as a concert pianist (Denver Chamber Orchestra, 1986); the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, the United States Marine Band, the American Composers Orchestra, pianist Gary Graffman, the Kings Singers, cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio, and flautist Jeffrey Khaner have all championed his work. Awards and fellowships include two Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residencies, an Opera America Grant, the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bearns, Nissim, and Barlow Foundation Prizes. A graduate of the Curtis Institute and of Juilliard, Hagen currently serves as President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation. |