by Doug Dreisbach | Jan 5, 2018 | KENTUCKY OPERA
Overview: Fairy-tale? Love Story? Multi-layered allegory? You decide! And remember…long before there was Harry Potter, there was Mozart’s incandescent Magic Flute! Into the woods we go with Prince Tamino and his pal. the irreverent bird-catcher Papageno. The Prince is searching for the perfect girl to marry, and happily, he finds her…but not before being saved from a dragon, outsmarting the duplicitous Queen of the Night, and proving himself worthy through an epic set of challenges set forth by the mysterious high priest Sarastro!
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by Doug Dreisbach | Jan 5, 2018 | KENTUCKY OPERA
Overview: Two Wives. One Mistress. Secrets and lies. That’s the life of Herman Broder, ghostwriter for a famous rabbi in 1948 New York. Herman escaped from the Nazis thanks to his current wife who hid him in a hayloft. But he’s really in love with his mistress, a concentration camp survivor, whom he also marries. And then his first wife – who supposedly died in the Holocaust – suddenly reappears!
Watch what happens when everybody finally meets in this darkly funny and deeply moving tale of hope, guilt, and despair. Can a man who has learned to hide truly come out of hiding? Can survivors love again? A brilliant new opera based on the novel by I. B. Singer, which also inspired an award-winning movie. Featured as part of Kentucky Opera’s Composer Workshop in the fall of 2009 and the fall of 2011. (more…)
by Doug Dreisbach | Jan 2, 2018 | KENTUCKY OPERA
Palm Beach Opera’s “Enemies, A Love Story” Friday, February 20, 2015.
Ben Moore’s Opera Previously Workshopped at Kentucky Opera Gets Second Full Production November 9 and 11, 2018
What: Enemies, A Love Story | by Ben Moore | Libretto by Nahma Sandrow
When: Friday, November 9th at 8pm and Sunday, November 11th at 2pm
Where: Brown Theatre | 315 W Broadway | Louisville, KY 40202
Tickets: On sale NOW starting at $20. To purchase tickets, visit kyopera.org or call 502.584.7777
Overview: A brilliant new opera based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, which also inspired an award-winning film adaptation. Sung in English with projected English supertitles, Enemies, A Love Story was workshopped as part of Kentucky Opera’s Composer’s Workshop Series in 2009 with piano only. A second workshop at Kentucky Opera featured a full orchestra in collaboration with the University of Louisville in 2011. The World Premiere of Enemies, A Love Story happened at Palm Beach Opera in 2015. The Wall Street Journal praised the production’s “soaring Puccinian lines, folk tunes and klezmer melodies.” This will be the production’s second full staging.
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