Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera with Harriet March Page, Artistic Director, celebrates its 10th Annual Fresh Voices Festival of New Works 2010 with four evenings of real-life stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive (America) and dark re-creations of old tales with new twists (Europe and Beyond).
Ten fully-staged short operas will Xplore: an erotic transformation in Hungary; starving artists in a sideshow in Czechoslovakia; a pioneer woman in Nebraska driven mad by loneliness; an Xpresident disintegrating in America. And more!
Program A (June 17 and 19, 8pm)
X at the Heart of America
. Featuring the WORLD PREMIERE of Trifles, John G. Bilotta/John F. McGrew
(from the story and play by Susan Glaspell)
. George Bush: The Last 100 Days, Chris Whittaker
. Life is Fine, Edward Knight/Langston Hughes
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
. The Bloody Chamber, Daniel Felsenfeld/Elizabeth Isadora Gold
. Job: a Masque, by Mark Alburger
Program B (June 18, 8 pm and June 20, 7 pm)
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
. The Hunger Art, Jeff Myers/Royce Vavrek
. Medea Alone, David Garner
. Theresa Kren, Mark Narins
X at the Heart of America
. Letter from Linda, Alden Jenks/Frank Polite
. Sutter Creek, Robert Denham
Six local composers: Mark Alburger, John G. Bilotta, David Garner, Alden Jenks, Mark Narins, Robert Denham. Stage Direction: Harriet March Page, Mark Alburger, Meghan Dibble, Ross Halper. Conductor: Hadley McCarroll, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Martha Stoddard. Pianist: Hadley McCarroll and Keisuke Nakagoshi. Lighting Design: Delayne Medoff.
Twenty-two amazing and brave local professional singers, including Nanette McGuinness, Indre Viskontas, Meghan Dibble, Chelsea Hollow, Nathaniel Marken, Joshua Beld, Justin Marsh, Eliza O'Malley, Sophia Santulli, Crystal Philippi, Marilyn Pratt, Raina Simons, Kristen Brown, Wayne Wong, Kate Bautch, Heather Lauren Klein, Sarita Cannon, Katherine Howell, Tristan Robben, Michael Desnoyers, Alexandra Jerinic, Nathan Kondrat, Maria Mikheyenko, Jo Vincent Parks
WHEN:
One Weekend Only: June 17-20, 2010
Thursday, June 17 – 8 pm
Friday, June 18 – 8 pm
Saturday, June 19 – 8 pm
Sunday, June 20 – 7 pm
WHERE:
Live Oak Theatre, 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley (above Rose Street)
TICKETS:
Advance tickets: $20 general admission/$15 seniors/students
Tickets at door: $25 general admission/$20 seniors/students
Reserve tickets online @ www.goathall.org or call 415-289-6877
