| About Face - an opera experience
Exploring an Emotional Landscape
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Heidi Moss
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Festival Opera is producing a new opera pastiche, based on the exploration of what it means to be judged based on our appearance -- particularly if an individual has a visible affliction or disability. What is the impact of compassion and of acceptance, especially self-acceptance? These fibers are woven throughout the first act of About Face - an opera experience. The production features soprano Heidi Moss,
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Eugene Brancoveanu
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baritone Eugene Brancoveanu, and tenor Jorge Garza.
Act 1, entitled "Faces of Affliction," includes arias from La Traviata, Rigoletto and a new chamber opera in development, called Mister Merrick,
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based on the life of the so called Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick. Original music in "Faces of Affliction" is composed by Kurt Erickson.
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Henry Mollicone
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Act 2 is the iconic chamber opera The Face on the Barroom Floor by Henry Mollicone who will conduct.
Festival Opera will present two performances at 4pm and 8pm at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Click for Ticket Information.
Note: There will also be a free preview event on November 15 at Rossmoor in Walnut Creek, with cast members, Mr. Mollicone, and special guests.
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2013 Season Chorus Auditions
"Fuoco di Gioia!" It's Otello Next Season
From chorus master James Toland: Next summer's production will be the astonishing masterwork of Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boito, Otello. The chorus forces required for this opera are enormous -- both vocally and physically demanding.  | | "Fuoco di Gioia" - Verdi: Otello |
The Festival Opera Chorus is seeking qualified singers who want to participate in this tremendous production. In addition to the full production of Otello, the Festival Opera Chorus will sing in the annual Sunday afternoon Opera In The Park, as well as participate in a Sunday afternoon Open Chorus Rehearsal. Auditions will be scheduled in early January 2013, and rehearsals will begin late that same month. For more information, click here.
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Festival Opera
1630 North Main Street, #61
Walnut Creek, California 94596
925.944.9610
www.festivalopera.org
Michael Morgan - Artistic Director
Sara Nealy - Executive Director
Sunshine Deffner - Assistant Director
James Toland - Chorus Master
Bryan Nies - Principal Conductor
Dick Brundage, CBC - Marketing Director
Frederic Boulay - Director of Production
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Susie Hanson, Chair
Karin Eames, Vice Chair
Peter Johnson, Vice Chair
David Kingsbury, Treasurer
Katherine Van Hagan, Secretary
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Calendar
November 15, 2012 Thursday from 4-6pm
Preview event: "About Face"
Fireside Room, Gateway Clubhouse
Rossmoor
Walnut Creek, CA
December 5, 2012
Wednesday at 4pm and at 8pm
"About Face - an opera experience"
Margaret Lesher Theater
Lesher Center for the Arts
1600 Civic Drive
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The Hearst Foundations
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Diablo Regional Arts Association
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Pacific Gas & Electric
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