Donizetti’s beloved bel canto masterpiece is interpreted in a whole new Covid-compliant concept: Lucia finds herself at the beginning of the opera in an isolation ward, surrounded by plastic curtaining; she relives the events that led up to her madness, and try as she might to make meaningful contact with others, no-one will come within nine feet of her… the time is the present. This production will be performed live in front of an invited, masked audience only, who will be seated according to social distance guidelines.
Director and Designer
Jonathan Eaton
Music Director
Willem Van Schalkwyk
Orchestral Arrangement
Daniel Schlosberg, originally written for Heartbeat Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Online Recorded Performances Saturday, November 21 at 7:30pm CST and Sunday, November 22 at 3:00pm CST
Musical arrangement originally written for Heartbeat Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor by Daniel Schlosberg
Donizetti’s beloved bel canto masterpiece is interpreted in a whole new Covid-compliant concept: Lucia finds herself at the beginning of the opera in an isolation ward, surrounded by plastic curtaining; she relives the events that led up to her madness, and try as she might to make meaningful contact with others, no-one will come within nine feet of her… the time is the present. This production will be performed live in front of an invited, masked audience only, who will be seated according to social distance guidelines.
Director and Designer
Jonathan Eaton
Music Director
Willem Van Schalkwyk
Orchestral Arrangement
Daniel Schlosberg, originally written for Heartbeat Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Online Recorded Performances Saturday, November 21 at 7:30pm CST and Sunday, November 22 at 3:00pm CST
Musical arrangement originally written for Heartbeat Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor by Daniel Schlosberg
High fashion Don Giovanni hits the catwalk
UNT Opera is launching a bold new production of Mozart’s timeless classic, set in the present day, with costumes designed by UNT’s Fashion Department headed by Professor Barbara Trippeer. The opera takes place on a radical new set design which showcases visual projections to enhance the modern atmosphere. Of course, it will be sung (and strutted) by our amazing UNT Opera students accompanied by the UNT Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Robert Frankenberry. Director Jonathan Eaton promises you an experience you will not forget:
“If you think you have seen Don Giovanni before,
you haven’t seen anything yet!”
This production will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.
As we look forward to the February opening of the operatic double bill of the celebrated Gianni Schicchi and the almost unknown Roussel opera, Le Testament de la Tante Caroline, come discover more of the charm, grace, and good humor in the music of Albert Roussel in a recital of his songs and chamber music developed by Carol Wilson, soprano, and James Scott, flute. The program will take place on Sunday, February 24, at 3:00PM in Voertman Hall in the UNT Music Building.
Profs. Scott and Wilson will perform together and with colleagues William Joyner, Eva Polgar, Susan Dubois, and Eugene Osadchy, as well as some of their outstanding doctoral students. The songs and the flute suite, “Joueurs de la Flute”, portray amorous situations from life, legend, and literature within Roussel’s unique blend of impressionism, exoticism, and neo-classicism, followed by his masterful Trio for Flute, Viola, and Cello. The concert will introduce Roussel’s special musical world for its own sake, as it also prepares its audience for the delight of his comic opera opening on February 28th.
Performed in English with chamber ensemble.
This performance represents the culmination of Tom Cipullo's residency at UNT, revealing the raw power and contemporary relevance of his four intimate chamber operas.
No charge for admission.
Lyric Theater, Murchison Performing Arts Center
Libretto by Jules Barbier & Michel Carré
Based on Part I of Faust by Johann Goethe
Performing version by Jonathan Eaton
Orchestral reduction by Stephen Dubberly
Purchase tickets online at: http://thempac.music.unt.edu
Dissatisfied with his life in science, Faust sells his soul to the devil to regain his youth, and find joy again in the passing moment. Under the devil’s influence, the lovely Marguerite falls for Faust, and is irredeemably corrupted, to Faust’s ultimate horror. This chamber version of Gounod’s opera reduces it to the scale of Goethe’s original Urfaust. Sung in French with English supertitles. Performed with chamber ensemble.