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WE ARE SONS
A World Premier Chamber Opera by Rudolf Rojahn
(BOSTON - August 2008) Guerilla Opera, Ensemble-in-Residence at The Boston Conservatory, presents the World Premiere of We Are Sons, directed by Sally Stunkel, music and original libretto by Rudolf Rojahn, at the Zack Box Theater at The Boston Conservatory.
We Are Sons, music and original libretto by Rudolf Rojahn
Directed by Sally Stunkel
Scenic and Lighting Design by Allison Choat
Zack Box Theater, The Boston Conservatory, 8 The Fenway, Boston
September 17, 19 & 20, 2008, at 8:00pm
September 21, 2008 at 2:00pm
SYNOPSIS - In 1974, Ray Lee Clopas, a newly paroled pedophile, returns to his sleepy South Carolina hometown. His mother attempts to hide her son's blighted past by forcing him to pose as a Vietnam veteran. As her poorly conceived ruse begins to fall apart Momma decides to cure her son once and for all. With the help of a sweat-drenched Minister, the town prostitute, an alcoholic, a doctor, a one-armed coward and others, this black farce explores the nature of guilt and innocence.
Jessi Rosinski, Flute
Kent O'Doherty, Saxophone
Javier Caballero, Violoncello
Mike Williams, Percussion
De'Lon Grant as Raymond Lee Clopas
Kathryn Johnson as Olivia Clopas
Jonathan Nussman as John Creighton
Jennifer Rizzo as Mattie Creighton
Matthew Truss as Reverend Eli Hunt
Leslie Ann Leytham as Dolores McAvoy
Aliana de la Guardia as June Jackson
Brendan P. Buckley as Dr. Gene Singleton
Director Sally Stunkel took Guerilla audiences by storm last season with the energetic, dark, and funny Heart of a Dog, by Rudolf Rojahn and with her "powerful blocking" in Andy Vores' operatic adaptation of No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre. A highly respected and accomplished director and acting coach, she will soon begin her second year at The Boston Conservatory as the Director of Opera Studies. Her directing credits include Guerilla Opera (Season One), Sacramento Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Skylight Opera, and Aspen Music Festival.
Rudolf Rojahn is on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory and New England Conservatory's School of Continuing & Preparatory Education as an Ear Training and Harmony Instructor. In May of 2007 Rojahn, BM in Percussion and MM in Composition from The Boston Conservatory, along with Co-Artistic Director, Percussionist Mike Williams, formed Guerilla Opera as an attempt to bridge the gap between conventional opera repertoire and the creation of newer avant-garde repertoire. We Are Sons is the second work from this composer to be premiered by Guerilla Opera.
Guerilla Opera
The extensive mission of Guerilla Opera is to revitalize opera by commissioning and performing newly composed chamber operas which require the highest level of virtuosity and musicianship equally from singers and instrumentalists, while simultaneously creating a new operatic repertoire and championing an accessible and artistically progressive form of avant-garde theater.
World renowned baritone, Sanford Sylvan is now on the board of directors for Guerilla Opera, and hails this group as "...the future of opera. Brilliant composers and performers committed to their vision of Music Theater which is dynamic, flexible and deeply compelling. They will carry us forward to new operatic heights."
Marketing Contact:
Aliana de la Guardia, General Manager, (201) 952-6735, guerillaopera@gmail.com
Tickets: $12.00/$7.00 seniors/free to all students
Boston Conservatory Box Office, (617) 912-9222
bostonconservatory.edu/performances
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