UE Presents Innovative Opera Scenes Program This Weekend
Published: November 02, 2009
This fall, the University of Evansville is pulling together opera from across Europe in its experimental Opera Scenes program, Where Everybody Knows Your Name.
The program, which will be presented in full costume at 7:30 p.m. on November 6 and 7 in UE’s Wheeler Concert Hall, will vary from the traditional Opera Scenes program by not presenting each scene in a stand-alone format. In Where Everybody Knows Your Name, the UE Department of Music will present a series of overlapping and interlocking opera scenes in one common location: a mysterious tavern inhabited by characters from the world of opera.
The program, part of the Schmidt Opera Series at UE, is free and open to the public.
“We have always tried to go outside the box to come up with more innovative ways to perform Opera Scenes in my time at the University of Evansville”,” said Jon Truitt, UE associate professor of music. “The idea of bringing these characters and scenes from French, Italian, and even Spanish opera all together in the same setting for one program – and interweaving all of these characters and scenes together into a cohesive performance – has been a tremendous challenge, but it’s also been tremendously exciting.
“I think the audience will be very pleased by what we have for them this year, and very entertained by the performance our students have put together.”
The program will include scenes from:
• Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Mozart)
• Barber of Seville
(Gioacchino Rossini)
• Carmen (Georges Bizet)
• Dona
Francisquita (Amadeo Vives)
• Merry Wives of Windsor (Carl Maria Von
Weber)
• Tartuffe (Kirk Mechem)
• The Ballad of Baby Doe
(Douglas Moore)
• The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan)
For more information on the program, please contact the UE Department of Music at (812) 488-2754, or visit the University of Evansville on the Web at www.evansville.edu.
