Fresh Voices XVI "Memories & Desires"
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Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Presented by Goat Hall Productions
August 12 - 27, 2016
Join Goat Hall Productions for Memories & Desires; two new chamber operas by American and European composers, and performed by an outstanding cast of Bay Area singers and musicians.
Running Time: approx. 2 hours, with one intermission
August 12 - 27, 2016
Join Goat Hall Productions for Memories & Desires; two new chamber operas by American and European composers, and performed by an outstanding cast of Bay Area singers and musicians.
Running Time: approx. 2 hours, with one intermission
Memories & Desires
Rosetta's Stone
A chamber opera in two acts
Music: John G. Bilotta & Jostein Stalheim
Liberetto: John F. McGrew & Odded Ben Horin
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
- R. W. Emerson
Rosetta's Stone is an international effort, a collaborative opera about one man's descent into Alzheimer's created by a team of writers and composers in the U.S. and Norway.
Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232
An opera in 85 years
Music: Mark Alburger
Libretto: After Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel
Whoever falls, should also be given a push!
- Friederich Nietzsche
Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232 (2014), is an adultery of post-modern musics, inspired by the beautiful Viennese, Los Angelino socialite-composer, and her lovers - including theatre director Max Burchard; artists Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoshka; composers Alexander Zemlinsky, Gustav Mahler, and Hans Pfitzner; architect Walter Gropius; biologist Paul Kammerer; novelist Franz Werfel; and theology professor Johannes Hollnsteiner - as well as associates Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Ernst Krenek, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten. As her autobiography has increasingly been revealed to be false, misleading, and unreliable - so the opera...
Rosetta's Stone
A chamber opera in two acts
Music: John G. Bilotta & Jostein Stalheim
Liberetto: John F. McGrew & Odded Ben Horin
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
- R. W. Emerson
Rosetta's Stone is an international effort, a collaborative opera about one man's descent into Alzheimer's created by a team of writers and composers in the U.S. and Norway.
Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232
An opera in 85 years
Music: Mark Alburger
Libretto: After Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel
Whoever falls, should also be given a push!
- Friederich Nietzsche
Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232 (2014), is an adultery of post-modern musics, inspired by the beautiful Viennese, Los Angelino socialite-composer, and her lovers - including theatre director Max Burchard; artists Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoshka; composers Alexander Zemlinsky, Gustav Mahler, and Hans Pfitzner; architect Walter Gropius; biologist Paul Kammerer; novelist Franz Werfel; and theology professor Johannes Hollnsteiner - as well as associates Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Ernst Krenek, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten. As her autobiography has increasingly been revealed to be false, misleading, and unreliable - so the opera...