Date: Tuesday and Wednesday, September 20 and 21 Date: Tuesday and Wednesday, November 1 and 2 Opera by Martin Bresnik (UM Distinguished Composer in Residence), and librettist J.D. McClatchy, performed with the UM White Ibis New Music Ensemble. Date: Tuesday, October 18 Frost Opera Theater students present Classical and Bel Canto repertoire, revealing operatic influences on Stravinsky's great neoclassical opera, The Rake’s Progress, slated for Frost Opera Theater performance in March 2017. Henry Purcell's extraordinary opera dating from the mid-1680s is a fifty-minute miracle steeped in romance, sorcery, and high tragedy, recognized as the first opera superlatively set in English. FREE and open to the public, featuring undergraduate and graduate curriculum performances.Master Class with Bass-Baritone Kevin Short
Master Class with Stage Director Nicholas Muni
Music from Yale - Two Excerpts from My Friend’s Story
Date: Monday, October 10Master Class with Pantomime Artist Nina Martin
Opera Scenes - In Concert
Date: Thursday, November 10, 7:30 PMDido and Aeneas - In Concert
Date: Friday, November 11, 7:30 PM
Location: Gusman Hall Wall to Wall Opera For All
Date: Saturday, November 12, 12 - 4 p.m.
Frost Opera Theater returns for its annual performance at the beautiful Bonnet House Estate in Fort Lauderdale. The Bonnet House Museum and Gardens Young Artist Series present some of the finest young talents in South Florida each season. Frost Opera Theater and Frost Symphony Orchestra present a staged production of Stravinsky’s only full-length opera in English, featuring his most lyrical score. The Rake’s Progress, inspired by the operas of Mozart, is a pastiche of a late 18th - century opera with a brilliant verse libretto by poet W.H. Auden. New opera workshop supported by Opera America Grants for Female Composers and the John Duffy Institute for New Opera. Young Artist Series
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017, 7:30 p.m.The Rake’s Progress, by Igor Stravinsky
Dates: Thursday, March 2, 7:30 PM & Saturday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.Beyond by Mary Ellen Childs and Claire Porter
Guests: Mary Ellen Childs – composer
Claire Porter – librettist
Liz Engelman – dramaturg
Libby Larsen – composer/artistic director –John Duffy Institute for New Opera
Bob McGrath – stage director – Ridge Theater, New York
Charles Jarden – Artistic Director, American Opera Projects, New York
Dates: Monday through Friday, April 24 – 28
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