Posts Tagged 'Peter Grimes'

Falstaff: Verdi’s brilliant comedy opens on Norton stage tonight

July 26, 2013·Comments closed

“All in the world’s mere folly; man is born to be jolly,” basso buffo Kevin Glavin said, reminding audiences of the lesson to be learned through uproarious laughter in tonight’s production of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdi’s comedic masterpiece, by the Chautauqua Opera Company.

Falstaff, the final opera in Verdi’s long and distinguished career, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in Norton Hall and again at 7:30 p.m. on Monday. Students of Chautauqua Opera’s Young Artist Program will provide the chorus for the show.

Opera, The Arts

Opera’s second Musical Theater Revue highlights work of Porter

July 25, 2013·Comments closed

After years of developing her business, choreographer Teddy Kern has earned her annual month in Chautauqua — though it’s hardly a vacation.

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‘Magnetic from start to finish’: Vibrant theatricality raises Chautauqua Opera’s ‘Peter Grimes’ to great heights

July 8, 2013·Comments closed

Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, whose 200th birthdays are being celebrated this year, took a while to find their operatic footing. But not Benjamin Britten, who’ll be a mere 100 in November. With his first opera, Peter Grimes, Britten burst onto the scene as a master in the genre.

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Saturday at the opera

July 6, 2013·Comments closed

Jay Lesenger was a teenager when he first saw Peter Grimes at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1967.

Those who attend Saturday’s 8:15 p.m. Amphitheater performance of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 masterpiece will witness the Chautauqua Opera Company’s artistic/general director’s vision — 46 years in the making — turned into a gripping reality.

The Amphitheater, navicular in appearance, will serve as an ideal venue in which to nestle the opera’s setting: a small fishing village on England’s eastern shores.

Opera, The Arts

Lesenger to share joy of opera in annual master class

July 5, 2013·Comments closed

Jay Lesenger, Chautauqua Opera Company’s general/artistic director, will present his annual master class at 1:15 p.m. today in Fletcher Music Hall.

Opera, The Arts

Two questions with the cast, directors of ‘Peter Grimes’

July 5, 2013·Comments closed

The Daily sat down with six key players in the Chautauqua Opera Company’s production of Peter Grimes, with the goal of better grasping how the show might be received both by opera lovers and also by those who have never experienced what composer Richard Wagner called “a total work of art.”

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SLIDESHOW: The scene, and behind it — ‘Peter Grimes’ dress rehearsal

July 2, 2013·Comments closed

The Chautauqua Theater Company will perform of Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes on Saturday, July 6 at 8:15 p.m. A dress rehearsal from Saturday, June 29 is pictured here. [SLIDESHOW]

Opera, The Arts

Common thread of ‘Crime and Punishment’ runs through opera’s 2013

June 22, 2013·Comments closed

“Now,” sing the members of the Chautauqua Opera Company, as tenor Kevin Ray lifts his voice above a storm of choral waves, in the climax of this year’s first main-stage performance: Peter Grimes, the masterwork by English composer Benjamin Britten.

On June 17, following months of preparation — auditions, set design, costume selection and rehearsal — the best of the program’s 700 applicants enjoyed the chance to gather in the same room to rehearse the songs they had been practicing since spring.

General/Artistic Director Jay Lesenger had never put on Peter Grimes, and when the “the right circumstances” presented themselves, he jumped at the chance.