Old Dominion University Opera Theatre
Description: Old Dominion Opera Theater is a quickly growing entity at ODU. The Opera Theatre curriculum includes: professional development seminars, masterclasses, headshots, vocal and dramatic coaching, resume writing and group trips to operatic productions.
With a mission to educate and entertain, Opera Theatre productions and scene programs include a diverse variety of operatic repertoire.
2008-2009 Repertoire:
Amahl and the Night Visitors by: Gian Carlo Menotti
Dates: Sunday November 23rd 3:00 pm Tuesday November 25th at 7:30 pm
Location: Chandler Recital Hall (Diehn Center for Performing Arts)
Description: A family Christmas favorite, this one act opera tells the story of three kings on their way to see a newborn wondrous child. On their way, they stop to rest at the home of a single mother struggling to care for her young physically disabled son. A Christmas miracle changes the lives of all in the story.
Staged Aria Concert
Dates: Fall 2008 TBA
Location: Chandler Recital Hall (Diehn Center for Performing Arts)
Description: ODU students perform well known operatic repertoire.
Hansel and Gretel by: Engelbert Humperdinck
Dates: February 19, 20, 21 and 26, 27, 28
Location: University Theater
Description: Come see this famous Grimms Brothers fairy tale broght to life on the operatic stage. Hansel and Gretel are two children who wander off in the forest and meet a witch who entices them with her house of gingerbread and candy. The children's mother and father search for them frantically knowing that the two children might be in danger. A collaboration between the Music, Theater and Dance Departments of ODU, this promises to be a wonderful show for the whole family.
Letter to Warsaw by Thomas Pasatieri
Dates: Sunday April 26th 3:00pm and one other community concert TBA
Location: Chandler Recital Hall (Diehn Center for Performing Arts)
Description: In honor of the Holocaust Day of Remembrance, Letter to Warsaw is the extraordinary musical setting of one woman's intimate first-hand account of life in the grip of the Holocaust. American composer Thomas Pasatieri set six texts by poet/cabaret artist Pola Braun. Braun wrote these texts while in the Warsaw ghetto and in the Majdanek concentration camp, where she perished in 1943. Braun's voice of witness ensures that she will not be swallowed up by the anonymity of history. Through Pastieri's music, her words tell a story and remind us that each victim of the Holocaust was an individual.
Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dates: Thursday April 30th 7:30 pm and Saturday May 2nd 7:30pm
Location: Chandler Recital Hall (Diehn Center for Performing Arts)
Description: A wager among friends results in two sisters being tested in their devotion to their lovers. Disguises, fiancé swapping, bribery and flirtation fuel this comic battle of the sexes.
Past Opera Theatre repertoire includes:
Sour Angelica by: Giacomo Puccini
Dido and Aeneas by: Henry Purcell
Trouble in Tahiti by: Leonard Bernstein
Marriage of Figaro by: W.A. Mozart
The Elixir of Love by: Gaetano Donizetti
A Hand of Bridge by: Samuel Barber
The Magic Flute by: W.A. Mozart
The Old Main and The Thief by: Gian Carlo Menotti
The Italian Girl in Algiers by: Gioachino Rossini
