Middlemarch In Spring: A World Premiere Chamber Opera
Organization:
Composers, Inc.
Category:
Performing Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
3/19/2015
End Date:
3/22/2015
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
4:15 PM
Event
Info:
March 19-21 at 8pm March 22 at 2pm
Composers, Inc. proudly announces the world premiere of a major new chamber opera, MIDDLEMARCH IN SPRING, by composer Allen Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens, based on George Eliot's great romantic novel Middlemarch.
In this stirring yet often lighthearted opera, Shearer and Stevens bring George Eliot's towering literary work to the operatic stage for the first time. With powerful imagery and compelling music, the opera evokes an unforgettable spring in the town of Middlemarch-one of passionate love and political upheaval. Audiences will meet Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic woman who hopes to improve the world. Naively, she marries the scholar Casaubon for his "great mind" and is devastated when he turns out to be cold, shallow and not very bright. But in spring, anything can happen. Could Dorothea have a second chance at happiness with the dashing, eminently unsuitable Will Ladislaw? The odds are stacked against her.
This new opera features six of the novel's most colorful characters (portrayed by leading singers Sara Duchovnay, Daniel Curran, Philip Skinner, Eugene Brancoveanu, Tonia D'Amelio, and Michael Mendelsohn) along with a chamber orchestra that surprisingly joins the action in one outrageous scene. Jonathan Khuner will conduct and Philip Lowery will direct, with scenic design by Matthew Antaky and costume design by Christine Crook.
Shearer and Stevens' previous work, THE DAWN MAKERS, received its world premiere by Composers, Inc. in 2009 to a sold-out house at Herbst Theatre, SF. Praised by Thomas Busse of San Francisco Classical Voice as "a chamber opera production superior to any work I have seen from the Bay Area's smaller companies," the opera is now a finalist in the National Opera Association's Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition 2014-16.
Composers Inc.'s stunning world premiere production of MIDDLEMARCH IN SPRING will be a colorful feature of the Bay Area's spring 2015 opera season. Don't miss it!
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