MANNES OPERA PRESENTS GAETANO DONIZETTI: COMMEDIA-TRAGEDIA
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NEW YORK, December 21, 2012 - Mannes College The New School for Music presents Gaetano Donizetti: Commedia - Tragedia, a program featuring Donizetti's most influential works, performed by the Mannes Opera's international cast of young artists. The performances will take place on January 13 and 14, 2012 at Hunter College's Kaye Playhouse. "Mannes Opera's performances offer a exceptional opportunity to witness the next generation of talent," said Richard Kessler, Dean of Mannes College. "These technically advanced, passionate performances bring to the public Mannes' mission to enliven music's most honored traditions with new voices and new interpretations." Gaetano Donizetti: Commedia - Tragedia is conceived, supervised, and conducted by Joseph Colaneri, Artistic Director of The Mannes Opera since 1998, now in his 15th year as a member of the conducting roster of The Metropolitan Opera. Under Maestro Colaneri's leadership, The Mannes Opera has been praised by the New York Times for "a stellar reputation for the quality of its presentations and the excellence of its student singers." "Gaetano Donizetti, the great master of the bel canto, was equally gifted as a composer of both comic and tragic operas," said Maestro Colaneri. "Don Pasquale and La Fille du Régiment are among Donizetti's best comic works and his dramatic tragedy, Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the great testaments to the gothic spirit of 19th century Romanticism." The three featured excerpts will be conducted by Mannes Opera faculty members: Act I of Don Pasquale by Ted Taylor, excerpt from Act II ("The Lesson") of La Fille du Régiment by Susan Woodruff Versage and Act II of Lucia di Lammermoor by Joseph Colaneri. The team of professionals behind the production includes Laura Alley (stage director), Rodger Hanna (set designer), Helen E. Rodgers (costume designer), Brian Barnett (lighting designer), and Amanda Miller (makeup and wig designer). Performance schedule: The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College |
| About Mannes College The New School for Music Mannes College The New School for Music develops the next generation of classical music citizens by combining old world conservatory traditions with the cutting-edge advantage of being part of The New School, the nation's foremost progressive university. Founded in 1916, Mannes College's deep and historic connections to New York City's storied concert halls and cultural institutions offer an exceptional setting for musicians to grow into great artists amidst the world's most vibrant and influential arts scene. Mannes students are featured in more than 400 concerts produced by the school each year at its two concert halls and in venues throughout the New York metropolitan area. Under the leadership of Dean Richard Kessler, Mannes continues to cultivate musicians of the highest level of technique, artistry and commitment to community, true to vision founders David and Clara Mannes articulated nearly a century ago. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes. |
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