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Long Beach Opera's 2008 SEASON OF STARS continues
with a unique double bill: STRAUSS
meets FRANKENSTEIN
This
time, MICHAEL YORK, film and theatre star AND avid opera fan takes center
stage. YORK lends drama to the spoken word when in part one of the program
he recites "ENOCH ARDEN," ALFRED LORD TENNYSON's poem about
thwarted love, to a piano accompaniment composed expressly for the poem
by RICHARD STRAUSS (provided here by LISA SYLVESTER). It is a
piece York has recorded (see image at right, also available as an MP3
download).
In part two, he does a complete mood swing, standing comic strip heroes
and film idols/characters on their heads as narrator-chansonnier of
H.K. GRUBER's irreverent and anarchic "FRANKENSTEIN!!" - a
piece for voice and orchestra after the nursery rhymes of the Viennese
poet H.C. ARTMANN. The children's rhymes - often laced with macabre
humor and incarnating such multifarious characters as Batman, Robin
and Superman, John Wayne, Goldfinger, James Bond, and Frankenstein -
are in fact a mask for hidden political statements.
Like ENOCH ARDEN, this is a multimedia production, with music provided
by the LONG BEACH OPERA ORCHESTRA, General and Artistic Director ANDREAS
MITISEK conducting, and masks, shadow puppetry and multimedia effects
by the ROGUE ARTISTS ENSEMBLE.
True to its reputation as the "little opera company that can"
- i.e., produce works that bigger, more traditional companies cannot,
LONG BEACH OPERA will likely pull off another off-the-beaten-path audience
experience. So, mark your calendar - it's an evening bound to be more
than exciting: MICHAEL YORK will take you on a "wild ride"
from tear-jerking melodrama to "wacky pandemonium."
WHERE: Center Theater, Long Beach Performing Arts Center
300 E. Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90802
WHEN: March 14, 15 at 8 pm & March
16 at 4 pm
Visit the LONG
BEACH OPERA website for tickets and more information.
Photo credits: © Keith Ian Polakoff, Robert Fu and Doris Koplik / courtesy Long Beach Opera
VISIT THESES PAGES again - there will be more on STRAUSS MEETS FRANKENSTEIN as well as interviews with MICHAEL YORK and ANDREAS MITISEK.
An Interview with Michael York: on Opera on Melodrama, Music and the Spoken Word
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