Verismo Variations—Staged Opera Scenes by Puccini, Leoncavallo, and Mascagni
Thursday, November 13 & Saturday, November 15, 2014 @ 7:30 p.m.
Weeks Center for Recording and Performance, Clarke Recital Hall
Alan Johnson, artistic director
The Clarke Recital Hall stage will be charged with emotional realism when students from the Frost Opera Theater apply their craft in operatic scenes exemplifying the Italian style known as verismo. Music by Puccini, Leoncavallo, and Mascagni will be the focus. Arising in the late 19th century, the verismo style sought to bring naturalism to operatic stories and compositions distinguished by realistic-and often sordid or violent-depictions of everyday life and unbridled passions. Performances performed with piano; stage direction by Robynne Redmon, Chris O’Connor, and Alan Johnson.
Free admission
Il tabarro—Frost Opera Theater
Friday, November 14, 2014 @ 7:30 PM
Weeks Center for Recording and Performance, Clarke Recital Hall
Il tabarro by Giacomo Puccini, Part 1 of Il Trittico (“the Triptych”)
Alan Johnson, artistic director
Throughout the 2014-15 season, Frost Opera Theater presents Puccini’s Il Trittico, or “the Triptych,” a collection of three one-act operas: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi. The trilogy opens with a concert presentation of Il tabarro (“The Cloak”). Vocal performance faculty are featured in the lead roles in this single concert performance with bass-baritone Kevin Short as the barge owner Michele, soprano Esther Jane Hardenbergh as his wife Giorgetta, tenor Tony Boutté as the stevedore Luigi and secret lover of Giorgetta, and mezzo-soprano Robynne Redmon as La Frugola (the Rummager). Frost Opera Theater students complete the cast in this story of misery and murder along the River Seine in Paris. Frost Opera Theater program director Alan Johnson leads the ensemble from the piano.
Free admission.
Wall To Wall Opera For All Festival
Saturday, November 15, 2014 @ 11:00 AM
Nancy Green Rehearsal Hall
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Frost Opera Theater joins with Frost MusicReach, the award-winning music outreach program that provides free after-school music lessons and experiences for underserved students in Miami-Dade County, in its annual program of opera education for children of all ages when Giacomo Puccini arrives with tales and excerpts of his operatic life and work. Additional Wall to Wall highlights include presentations for the opera-buff and novice alike featuring Frost students in scenes, arias, and class projects.
Free admission
