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HOW TO APPLY for the Halifax Summer Opera Workshop which runs from July 16 to August 12, 2012 and features productions of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bizet’s Carmen, Weisensel’s Gisela in Her Bathtub, Blitzstein’s The Harpies and Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea. There are two steps you need to complete: 1. Please fill […]
The Harpies by Marc Blitzstein: 2012 Halifax Summer Opera Workshop
The third of our three programmes for the 2012 HSOW will be an evening of One Act Operas in English,and we’re especially proud to present a real operatic rarity: The Harpies, composed in 1930 by American composer Marc Blitzstein. This operatic spoof of Greek mythology – and of musical neo-classicism – is also intended as […]
Gisela in Her Bathtub by Neil Weisensel: 2012 Halifax Summer Opera Workshop repertoire
The third of our three programmes for the 2012 HSOW will be an evening of One Act Operas in English,and we’re thrilled to present the Halifax premiere of Gisela in Her Bathtub, a comic opera by Canadian composer Neil Weisensel and librettist Michael Cavanagh. Gisela lounges in the tub to soak her modern cares away […]
Riders to the Sea: 2012 repertoire for Halifax Summer Opera Workshop
The third of our three programmes for the 2012 HSOW will be an evening of One Act Operas in English,and the centerpiece of that evening will be Ralph Vaughan Williams’s opera Riders to the Sea, based on the play by J.M. Synge. Within only about forty-minutes of music, Riders to the Sea lays bare the […]
Bizet’s Carmen: Repertoire for 2012 Halifax Summer Opera Workshop
The second of our three programmes for the 2012 Workshop will be Bizet’s Carmen. Bizet once wrote in a letter: ‘I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil and the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note’. His opera Carmen wholeheartedly embraces this credo. […]
