This sounds very interesting:
As part of PortSide NewYork’s ongoing efforts to raise awareness of, and appreciation for, the waterfront and working waterfront in the Port of New York, we are pleased to offer Puccini’s steamy opera Il Tabarro set on our tanker home the Mary Whalen, in a real, working container port.
Actual stevedores and professional opera singers will share the stage, in a story about barge life, adultery and murder, surrounded by views of gantry cranes, containers, the lumber port, passing vessel traffic and a spectacular view of Governor’s Island and the lower Manhattan skyline, making an unforgettable on-site experience.
The opera will be performed by Vertical Player Repertory and hosted by American Stevedoring, the operators of the Red Hook container port in Brooklyn. The tanker is the stage; the audience sits on the pier.
Experience this unprecedented cultural event! A maritime night out at affordable prices!
Four performances:
Fri 9/7
Sun 9/9
Fri 9/14
Sun 9/16Opera is one hour long without intermission.
Opera ticket is $25.
Opera + Sunset Reception before each performance is $60. (Proceeds benefit PortSide)
Reception 5:00-6:45pm
Opera 7:00-8:00pmCash bar before and after each performance.
Tickets on sale now http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=ILT.
I got this from a friend is a non singing extra at the San Francisco Opera:
Beth Greenberg, the stage director for this Il Tabarro, just directed us in the west coast premiere of Ned Rorem’s operatic take on Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’.
I’m sure it’ll be a very interesting production.
I got this from a friend is a non singing extra at the San Francisco Opera:
Beth Greenberg, the stage director for this Il Tabarro, just directed us in the west coast premiere of Ned Rorem’s operatic take on Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’.
I’m sure it’ll be a very interesting production.