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

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.

UNT Presents Charles Gounod's Faust

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.