Il sogno di Scipione
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Apr 11, 2012
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Il sogno di Scipione Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Pietro Metastasio, Directed by Christopher Alden, Conducted by Neal Goren April 11-21, 2012, The Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College Ten years ago, Gotham Chamber Opera burst onto New York’s opera scene with Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione (Scipio’s Dream). To commemorate the anniversary of that debut production, Gotham Chamber Opera will revive Il sogno di Scipione in April 2012, reuniting its original design team. The highly-virtuosic one-act opera tells the story of the Roman Emperor Scipio Africanus, who, in a dream, awakens to find two goddesses before him: Fortune and Constancy. He must choose one or the other to guide him through life. Dazed by their enticements and threats, Scipio calls up his dead forebears for guidance in making this important and dangerous choice. Anthony Tommasini, classical music critic for The New York Times, wrote, “The company made a propitious debut with a delightful production.” Marion Lignana Rosenberg, in Opera News, asked, “How many opera companies have dared to offer as their debut production the American premiere of a work by a sixteen-year-old genius, its vocal writing of jaw-dropping difficulty, its allegorical ‘action’ virtually nonexistent, and yet managed to elicit whoops, stomps and whistles of approval from a captivated audience?” Charles Michener, in The New York Observer, added, “There is much to cheer about the arrival of this new company.” Beginning with its debut production of Il sogno di Scipione, Gotham Chamber Opera has launched the international careers of numerous singers, and continues to do so today. With its delivery of the highest musical and theatrical values and its success with audiences and critics alike, Gotham Chamber Opera continually reaffirms its place as what The New York Times called “the pre-eminent small opera company in New York.” The cast will include Michele Angelini, Marie-Eve Munger, Susannah Biller, Rachel Willis-Sorenson, Arthur Espiritu, and Chad Johnson.
Author: emilymt
The Gerald W. Lynch Theater
Theaters
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
212-237-8005
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Opera
Apr 11, 2012
to Apr 21, 2012 8:00pm
to 10:00pm Buy! Official Site
Il sogno di Scipione Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Pietro Metastasio, Directed by Christopher Alden, Conducted by Neal Goren April 11-21, 2012, The Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College Ten years ago, Gotham Chamber Opera burst onto New York’s opera scene with Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione (Scipio’s Dream). To commemorate the anniversary of that debut production, Gotham Chamber Opera will revive Il sogno di Scipione in April 2012, reuniting its original design team. The highly-virtuosic one-act opera tells the story of the Roman Emperor Scipio Africanus, who, in a dream, awakens to find two goddesses before him: Fortune and Constancy. He must choose one or the other to guide him through life. Dazed by their enticements and threats, Scipio calls up his dead forebears for guidance in making this important and dangerous choice. Anthony Tommasini, classical music critic for The New York Times, wrote, “The company made a propitious debut with a delightful production.” Marion Lignana Rosenberg, in Opera News, asked, “How many opera companies have dared to offer as their debut production the American premiere of a work by a sixteen-year-old genius, its vocal writing of jaw-dropping difficulty, its allegorical ‘action’ virtually nonexistent, and yet managed to elicit whoops, stomps and whistles of approval from a captivated audience?” Charles Michener, in The New York Observer, added, “There is much to cheer about the arrival of this new company.” Beginning with its debut production of Il sogno di Scipione, Gotham Chamber Opera has launched the international careers of numerous singers, and continues to do so today. With its delivery of the highest musical and theatrical values and its success with audiences and critics alike, Gotham Chamber Opera continually reaffirms its place as what The New York Times called “the pre-eminent small opera company in New York.” The cast will include Michele Angelini, Marie-Eve Munger, Susannah Biller, Rachel Willis-Sorenson, Arthur Espiritu, and Chad Johnson.
Author: emilymt
The Gerald W. Lynch Theater
Theaters
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
212-237-8005
Site
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