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Based in the state capital of Montpelier, Vermont Opera Theater features local professional talent in opera, |
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Based in the state capital of Montpelier, Vermont Opera Theater features local professional talent in opera, operetta, and original programs ranging from classical recitals to cabaret. In addition to performances, we offer opera workshops and master classes in classical song.
Gioacchino Rossini's comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives - the life of swift triumph as a star in the Italian operatic firmament, and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his rapier-like intelligence, his mask of humility and indifference to public opinion.
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©2002-2007 Vermont Opera Theater
Credits: Amahl photo, Tim Callahan Vermont Opera Theater
P.O. Box 869
Montpelier, VT 05601-0869
USA
None do this more successfully than the "first person" account which forms the centerpiece of WordStage Vermont's latest offering, presented by Vermont Opera Theater.
The Belgian journalist and musicologist, Edmond Michotte, was a frequent guest at the soirées at the home of the Rossinis during the composer's latter years. Having already won literary notice through the publication of his record of Rossini's historic meeting with the composer Richard Wagner, Michotte often took notes at some of the many salons hosted by the Rossinis, especially at their country home at Beau Séjour outside of Paris. He transcribed scintillating examples of the heady exchange of Rossinian wit, musical intelligence and astute criticism the composer shared with musical and literary luminaries of the day.
One such evening was captured almost in its entirety, and is performed here, replete with not only some of the musical "Sins" of this jocular Maestro, written throughout his later years for the amusement a small circle of friends and colleagues, but also including a few compositions from his bel canto contemporaries, Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti.
The performances feature the talents of WordStage Company Members pianist Mary Jane Austin Reynolds, baritone Simon Chaussé, director Tim Tavcar - and special guests mezzo-soprano Wendy Hoffman Farrell and clarinetist Michael Limoli.
A Short History of the Company
Vermont Opera Theater, based in Central Vermont, has been producing works of musical theater since 1984. Although small it strives for professional quality, and provides opportunity for local Vermont singers as well as singers from "away," as we say in Vermont. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, incorporated in the State of Vermont, and an Affiliate Member of OPERA America.
Our history begins with The Merry Widow, followed by such works as Orpheus in the Underworld, The Threepenny Opera, The Barber of Seville, scene shows, and La Perichole. More recent productions include a program of three one-acts in repertory (Argento's The Boor, Puccini's Suor Angelica, and the G&S classic Trial by Jury), Cosi fan Tutte, I Pagliacci, and the premiere of Vermont composer Ernest Stire's Pablo's Circus.
In 1998 the company indulged its interest in chamber opera and works seldom (if ever) seen in Vermont by presenting three contemporary pieces by Judith Weir, Paul Hindemith and Dominick Argento in a program called Baby Grand Opera. Another chamber piece, Mozart's The Impresario, followed, in an interesting double-bill along with a short play performed by Montpelier City Hall Art Center's resident acting company, Lost Nation Theater.
Vermont is dotted with "opera houses" dating from the nineteenth century that maybe have never seen an opera (until this company performed there) but much of the musical life of the State is lived in its village churches, the only place in town large enough to hold a performance, and Vermont Opera Theater has sung in its share of them. In the photo above in Montpelier's Unitarian Church, the cast is bowing after an intriguing opera recital, an original compilation by Tim Tavcar based on an account of an actual visit of Wagner with Rossini called "Musical Musings from Paris 1860."
Encouraging the art of singing is the company's chief goal. Since 1991, we have been proud to host two renowned performers and teachers of song, Dalton Baldwin and Lorraine Nubar, in an annual Foliage Art Song weekend of master classes and performances of art song, mélodie, and Lieder, to which many fine singers from Canada and the Northeast US have come to polish their craft.
Summer Opera Workshops are a newer venture. Our first ones were held in 2000 and 2001. For them we were fortunate to have been able to invite the very experienced Maestro Leonard Dumitriu, conductor at the Iási Romanian Opera House in Iási, Romania, and a composer himself of some well-received operas and other works.
For the Millennium Year, Vermont Opera Theater commissioned Vermont composer Erik Nielsen to create an opera, A Fleeting Animal: An Opera from Judevine,which had its world premiere in October 2000. For Christmas 2001, in honor of its 50th anniversary, we mounted (for the second time) Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. That season ended with everyone's favorite opera, Carmen, in a chamber version that concentrated on the lyrical "heart" of the opera. More recently, we produced a concert version of an old charmer, an operetta "The Blonde Donna, or the Fiesta of Santa Barbara" by Ernest Carter, whose grandson Ted Richards was the narrator.
Recent Performances
Opera, The Magician
What's Going On in Boston and Montreal - and Vermont? ... Chasing Winter's Blues Away
Opera Insights with Tim Tavcar
Winter 2006, 2007, 2008 ... Montpelier, Vermont.
Opera Insights with Tim Tavcar is an on-going series of informal and informative opera evenings. Each event in the series features some three operas that are being produced by opera companies in Montreal, Boston, and locally in Vermont and are attended by many Central Vermont opera fans.
The audience, aficionados and opera amateurs alike, enjoys stage director and actor Tim Tavcar's informative and entertaining "juicy tidbits" about the composer, historic productions and celebrated performers, illustrated with video and audio clips. The evenings end with a mini-concert of selections from the featured operas performed by local artists.
In 2008 the January talks & concerts covered not only The Barber of Seville (Rossini), Semele (Handel), and The Elixir of Love (Donizetti), but also two one-acts: L'heure Espagnole (Ravel) and The Secret of Susanna (Wolf-Ferrari); in the April performances the featured operas were Ernani (Verdi), La Traviata (Verdi), and The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart).
Many of the area's fine singers have taken part in the last three years; our pianist "orchestra" since the beginning has been Eliza Thomas.
pink lace heart Longing for Love
What else do you call such a concert of song on the day before Valentine's?
Music by Schubert, Delibes, Fauré, Rodrigo, Strauss, Bizet, Puccini
February 13 , 2005 - Montpelier Unitarian Church - Montpelier, Vermont
Featuring Deidre Tascarella with David Janes & Simon Chaussé
assisted by Eliza Thomas, piano, Paul Silver, clarinet & Mike Hendron, guitar
A Cabaret to Welcome Spring / French Art Song Workshop
Two events for lovers of song on the same day!
Satuday, March 29, 2003 - Unitarian Church of Montpelier
The Workshop: Bariton Simon Chaussé demonstrates and coaches music by
Fauré, Berlioz, Poulenc, Hahn, Debussy...
The Cabaret: baritone Simon Chaussé, soprano Deidre Tascarella, tenor Robert Dockstader, soprano Celina Moore with pianist Mary Jane Austin in opera...operetta...songs romantic...songs funny...songs silly!
[Carmen's rose]
Highlights from CARMEN
Friday, June 21 & Sunday, June 23, 2002 - Barre Opera House, Barre VT
The heart of the opera - A chamber version in French
Semi-staged with chamber orchestra |
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