April 17 & 18, 8pm
at The Bushwick Starr
www.thebushwickstarr.org
Tickets $5, Cash Only
For tickets and info contact:
TheRedHouseCollective at gmail dot com
Directions to the theatre:
207 Starr St
Take the L Train to the Jefferson St stop.
Walk South on Starr St 1/2 block (against traffic)
The theatre will be on your right.
Street parking is also available.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
On April 17th and 18th art song is coming to Bushwick. Song Cycles by Britten, Caplet, Poulenc and Ravel, standards on the recital stage, will be transformed into fully staged mini-operas.
Poulenc’s Le Bestiaire, Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles, and Caplet’s Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine, are all set in modern day New York City. With poetry by Renard, Apollinaire and Jean de la Fontaine, these songs take on a whole new meaning as neighbors explore their inner animal instincts.
Benjamin Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, illuminated with projections inspired by Blake’s images, follows the journey of a man breaking with the church as he discovers what his new spirituality giveth and what it taketh away.
The Red House Collective is a new company, dedicated to theatrical presentations of small-scale classical vocal works and new operatic works. The company was founded when Amanda Consol and Michael Rau met working as Staff Directors at Glimmerglass Opera. Both directors have worked at The Bushwick Starr before and are excited to bring classical vocal works to an untraditional venue. Their goal is to bring an unfamiliar art form to the neighborhood, and to bring the neighborhood to some unfamiliar patrons.
Performers include:
Talya Smilowitz, soprano (Juilliard, Sheba Musical Ensemble)
Bo Cheng, mezzo-soprano (Ravinia Festival, Lucerne Festival)
Aaron Theno, baritone (Glimmerglass Opera Young Artist)
Lara Ianni, actor
Jessica Chow, piano (Juilliard)
Saffron Chung, piano (Glimmerglass Opera)
Performances:
April 17 & 18, 2009; 8:00pm
The Bushwick Starr (www.thebushwickstarr.org)
Tickets $5
TheRedHouseCollective@gmail.com
www.TheRedHouseCollective.blogspot.com
Amanda Consol’s directing credits include Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges at DePaul University. She has assisted directors Peter Kazaras and Robin Guarino, among others, and worked with companies including Lorin Maazel’s Châteauville Foundation and Wolf Trap Opera.
Michael Rau is a New York based director, specializing in new works and adapted classics. Recent credits include staging Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch with the NYU Vocal Arts Department; The Ted Haggard Monologues at the Theater am Alten Markt in Germany and at the Collective:Unconscious (New Magazine Critics Pick and Winner of the Undergroundzero Festival Award for Artistic Excellence) and The Games We Used to Play, co-created with Max Goldblatt, which took first pace at the Fêtes du Suroit in 2005.
Poulenc’s Le Bestiaire, Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles, and Caplet’s Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine, are all set in modern day New York City. With poetry by Renard, Apollinaire and Jean de la Fontaine, these songs take on a whole new meaning as neighbors explore their inner animal instincts.
Benjamin Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, illuminated with projections inspired by Blake’s images, follows the journey of a man breaking with the church as he discovers what his new spirituality giveth and what it taketh away.
The Red House Collective is a new company, dedicated to theatrical presentations of small-scale classical vocal works and new operatic works. The company was founded when Amanda Consol and Michael Rau met working as Staff Directors at Glimmerglass Opera. Both directors have worked at The Bushwick Starr before and are excited to bring classical vocal works to an untraditional venue. Their goal is to bring an unfamiliar art form to the neighborhood, and to bring the neighborhood to some unfamiliar patrons.
Performers include:
Talya Smilowitz, soprano (Juilliard, Sheba Musical Ensemble)
Bo Cheng, mezzo-soprano (Ravinia Festival, Lucerne Festival)
Aaron Theno, baritone (Glimmerglass Opera Young Artist)
Lara Ianni, actor
Jessica Chow, piano (Juilliard)
Saffron Chung, piano (Glimmerglass Opera)
Performances:
April 17 & 18, 2009; 8:00pm
The Bushwick Starr (www.thebushwickstarr.org)
Tickets $5
TheRedHouseCollective@gmail.com
www.TheRedHouseCollective.blogspot.com
Amanda Consol’s directing credits include Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges at DePaul University. She has assisted directors Peter Kazaras and Robin Guarino, among others, and worked with companies including Lorin Maazel’s Châteauville Foundation and Wolf Trap Opera.
Michael Rau is a New York based director, specializing in new works and adapted classics. Recent credits include staging Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch with the NYU Vocal Arts Department; The Ted Haggard Monologues at the Theater am Alten Markt in Germany and at the Collective:Unconscious (New Magazine Critics Pick and Winner of the Undergroundzero Festival Award for Artistic Excellence) and The Games We Used to Play, co-created with Max Goldblatt, which took first pace at the Fêtes du Suroit in 2005.
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