Trouble in Tahiti + 2 shorts

TROUBLEfuturesongs

 A triptych of passion, denial and domestication

Leonard Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti

Justine F. Chen: Voice for a Future Nightingale

Thomas Deneuville: Outerborough Songs

Saturday, May 17 @ 8 pm

Sunday, May 18 @ 2 pm

Monday, May 19 @ 7:30 pm

Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space

95th St. & Broadway, NYC

Tickets: $40 advance/$45 same day

www.symphonyspace.org

212-864-5400 Tue-Sun 1 pm - 6 pm

"Can we find the way back to the garden?"
Stephanie McGuire and Isaac Grier in Trouble in Tahiti
Photo by Jonathan Slaff

Trouble in Tahiti
Dinah and Sam:
Stephanie McGuire and Isaac Grier 5/17 and 5/19
Kelli Butler and Mario Diaz-Moresco 5/18
Trio: Michelle Seipel, Miran Robarts and Luis Gonzalez; Radoslav Lesay 5/19


Read an interview with Stephanie McGuire here.

"We lost each other in forgiveness"
Gian-Carla Tisera in Outerborough Songs
Photo by Jonathan Slaff

Voice for a Future Nightingale
Philomel: Stephanie McGuire
Procne: Michelle Seipel 5/17 and 5/18; Miran Robarts 5/19


Outerborough Songs
Gian-Carla Tisera 5/17 and 5/19; Michelle Seipel 5/18

Conducted by Mark Shapiro.
Directed by Gina Crusco.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. This program is also made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.  Additional funding has been provided by Deutsche Bank, Venable Foundation and Puffin Foundation. Trouble in Tahiti is performed by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner. Special thanks to Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo at NYU.

Image: Mozart's Sister (c) 2014 Amaryllis Leon
Graphic Design: Manuel Servin Advertising
Photos by Jonathan Slaff
Photos taken at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo at NYU

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Spring 2014 Resident Artist auditions

Perform with a New York Times-praised opera company!

"Want lots of opportunities to perform? Masterclasses with industry professionals who work at A houses around the world? Reviews from major critics? Game-changing feedback on your audition repertoire? Do Underworld Productions Opera's Resident Artist Program."  -- Stephanie McGuire, mezzo-soprano, RA program alum

Roles for all voice types at Thalia Theater, Symphony Space.

Auditions Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by appointment in Manhattan.

Required repertoire:

-- A contemporary aria or song in English

-- A contrasting aria or song

Audition fee: $25 (non-refundable); accompanist provided.

Tuition: $850. Some scholarships are available as rebates upon successful completion of the program.

Metropolitan Opera tenor Marcello Giordani coaches UPO RAs and Guests.

For consideration:  Send your resume and headshot to Gina Crusco, Artistic Director, at underworldprod@gmail.com. If selected you will be provided with an audition timeslot and location. 

Spring 2014

Hours: More than 30 hours of coaching and rehearsals on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. 

Roles: For all voice parts. Two short contemporary opera and Trouble in Tahiti roles and covers will be cast from Resident Artists. See breakdown below.

Performances: May 4 and May 9 outreach performances; May 17, 18, 19 mainstage performances at Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space. Details are subject to change.

Guest workshops:  Composers Justine Chen and Thomas Deneuville will coach their works.  Additional workshops TBA; in recent seasons RAs enjoyed workshops with Dr. Robert C. White, Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program; Cori Ellison, Glyndebourne Opera dramaturg; Amy Frawley, Executive Vice President, Concert Artists Guild; Lydia Biondi, Mimoteatromovimento (Rome); Elena Araoz, Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera stage director; and Marcello Giordani, Metropolitan Opera tenor. 

What singers say about the program:

"I so enjoyed my time as a Resident Artist and took a tremendous amount away from the esperience" -- Rachel Policar, soprano, 2013 RA; First Place Winner, New York Lyric Opera National Vocal Competition 2013.

"I wanted to say thank you for everything. I learned so much during my time with UPO." – Katie Bolding, 2010 RA; winner of a Fest contract in Germany.   

"I have worked with a few companies and training programs now, and UPO's process is not only enjoyable and productive, but people truly learn -- and together." -- Nils Neubert, New York Times-praised tenor. 

Role Breakdown:

Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti 

Soprano or countertenor -- Solo and extensive trio work

Mezzo -- Cover lead role

Tenor -- Extensive trio work

Tenor II or High Baritone -- Extensive trio work

Justine F. Chen: Voice for a Future Nightingale

Soprano -- Brief lead role

Mezzo or countertenor -- Cover lead role

Tenor -- Brief lead role

Thomas Deneuville: Outerborough Songs

Soprano (lyric coloratura) -- Cover extensive solo role

CrossCURRENT 2014

March 7 @ 7 pm

Casa Italiana @ NYU

24 W. 12th Street 
(between 5th and 6th Ave.)

7:00 pm

Surge and undertow: 
contemporary/traditional vocal music.

Tickets $20 in advance. 
Brown Paper Tickets.

Works by Thomas Deneuville, Michael Dutka, David Gilfix, Jake Heggie and Marjorie Rusche; and by Handel, Mozart, Benjamin Britten and Elsa Sangiacomo Respighi.

Performed by Miran Robarts and Isabella Florin, sopranos; Heather Gerban, mezzo-soprano, Raymond Storms, countertenor,  Leslie Tay, tenor, and Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone. Michael Fennelly, cello and piano.

Miran Robarts, soprano

Isabella Florin, soprano

"I never saw a moor.                                  "Nel foco di primavera

I never saw the sea.                                   gitta gl'invernali abbigliamenti"  

Yet I know how heather looks                     ('Into the fire of spring          

and what a wave must be."                         throw away your winter garments')  

poem by Emily Dickinson                                              poem by Omar Khayam  

set by Michael Dutka                                                     set by Elsa Sangiacomo Respighi

Heather Gerban, mezzo-soprano

Raymond Storms, countertenor

"Standing up or sitting down                        "Forgive me. They were delicious --

little matters, or what gown..."                      so sweet and so cold."    

poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay                                   poem by William Carlos Williams

set by Thomas Deneuville                                               set by David Gilfix

Leslie Tay, tenor

"Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

buried all of his libretti

Thought the matter over

Then went and dug them up again."

poem by Dorothy Parker

set by Marjorie Rusche

        

Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone
"Tu sei il cor di questo core"
('You are the heart of my heart')
text by Nicola Francesco Haym
set by G.F. Handel