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October 2020
Giacomo Puccini
"...backstabbingly socially distant..."
What do you do when the family patriarch dies in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic? Hire a con man and change his will.
Giacomo Puccini's comedic one-act masterpiece, premiered in the midst of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, is brought to you as an original film produced by Opera Ithaca. Join and us and see just what happens when opera's favorite dysfunctional family goes into quarantine. Best of all - you can enjoy from the complete safety of home!
Gianni Schicchi
2020 | 2021 Season
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Director: Ben Robinson
Co-Director: David Kossack
Conductor: Christopher Zemliauskas
Starring: Dennis Jesse, Emily Pulley, Elena Galván, Daniel Bates, Nicholas Davis, Steve Stull
Original Filmed Production, Released September 2020
Approximately 55 Minutes
Sung in Italian with English Subtitles
"...backstabbingly socially distant..."
What do you do when the family patriarch dies in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic? Hire a con man and change his will.
Giacomo Puccini's comedic one-act masterpiece, premiered in the midst of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, is brought to you as an original film produced by Opera Ithaca. Join and us and see just what happens when opera's favorite dysfunctional family goes into quarantine. Best of all - you can enjoy from the complete safety of home!
Composer: Lee Hoiby | Engelbert Humperdinck
Director: Ben Robinson
Starring: Alexandra Loutsion
Spring 2021
Sung in English
Bon Appétit! | Hansel and Gretel is the delicious double bill opening Opera Ithaca's 2020-2021 mainstage season. Lee Hoiby's 1989 monodrama, Bon Appétit!, is a musical transcription of an episode of "The French Chef," with Julia Child. This delightful piece serves as an amuse bouche to Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, which has been given a new English libretto by Opera Ithaca Artistic Director Ben Robinson.
This new translation uniquely ties the two operas together into an integrated (and sugary) tale of two children who fall asleep watching "The French Chef" and awaken in a dream world in which they are sent to the forest by their mother. They got lost, only to stumble upon a PBS studio, where the witch turns out to be no other than Julia Child herself! A second zany cooking show wraps up the festivities and the children wake up from their dream, hungry for cake.
Bon AppéTit! | Hansel and Gretel
Gianni Schicchi
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Director: Ben Robinson
Co-Director: David Kossack
Conductor: Christopher Zemliauskas
Starring: Dennis Jesse, Emily Pulley, Elena Galván, Daniel Bates, Nicholas Davis, Steve Stull
Original Filmed Production, Released September 2020
Approximately 55 Minutes
Sung in Italian with English Subtitles
"...backstabbingly socially distant..."
What do you do when the family patriarch dies in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic? Hire a con man and change his will.
Giacomo Puccini's comedic one-act masterpiece, premiered in the midst of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, is brought to you as an original film produced by Opera Ithaca. Join and us and see just what happens when opera's favorite dysfunctional family goes into quarantine. Best of all - you can enjoy from the complete safety of home!
Inside the creative Process
Composer: Sally Lamb McCune
Librettists: Rachel Lampert & Yvonne Gray
Spring 2021
The final step in the workshop process of this thrilling new
opera by Ithaca composer Sally Lamb McCune takes us to the
Orkney Islands in Scotland, where conflict between humanity
and nature plays out by the picturesque sea.
We Wear the Sea Like a Coat
