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Two (2) Tickets to Pocket Opera's Merry Wives of Windser
- Item Number
- 184
- Estimated Value
- 78 USD
- Sold
- 30 USD to bandleader
- Number of Bids
- 2 - Bid History
Item Description
Pocket Opera presents professional performances of operatic works in intimate, intelligible productions at affordable prices.
Donald Pippin's approach to opera is to tell the story in the clearest manner possible. He once said that there is "a whole category of operas where, if you don't know the story on the way to the theatre, you won't know it on the way home, either." With Pocket Opera presentations it is really possible to know the plot of the opera on the way home. Pippin brings the story to life via his nationally recognized English versions of opera libretti, in which he translates the spirit of the work rather than word by word, with complete fidelity to the composer's musical intentions.
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Otto Nicolai
DATE | TIME | VENUE |
---|---|---|
July 7 | 2:00 PM | Berkeley Hillside Club |
July 14 | 2:00 PM | SF Legion of Honor |
July 21 | 2:00 PM | Napa Valley Opera House |
Artistic Director | Donald Pippin |
Executive Director | Dianna Shuster |
Director | TBA |
Marketing | Marisa Swain |
Box Office | Lainey Mackinley |
Props | Daniel Yelen |
Costumes | TBA |
CHARACTERS | ARTIST | VOICE | |
Sir John Falstaff | Jo Vincent Parks | baritone-bass | |
Mistress Ford | Marcelle Dronkers | soprano | |
Master Ford | Jonathan Spencer | baritone | |
Mistress Page | Meghan Dibble | mezzo soprano | |
Master Page | TBA | bass | |
Anne Page | Molly Wilson | soprano | |
Fenton | Jonathan Smucker | tenor | |
Dr. Caius | Wayne Wong | bass | |
Slender | TBA | tenor | |
Chorus: men and women of Windsor, neighbors, elves, spooks, and insects |
Jo Vincent Parks |
Marcelle Dronkers |
Jonathan Smucker |
Meghan Dibble |
Jonathan Spencer |
Wayne Wong |
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR A robust, down to earth, tune-filled opera based on a favorite comedy by Shakespeare. Flamboyant Sir John Falstaff, sometimes known as Plump Jack, larger than life, hard up as usual for cash, meets his match when he rashly sets out to woo two spunky women with identical love letters and famously winds up in a laundry basket.
"Pippin's English version is one of his best -- witty without being at all course, modern, light-footed, sprightly."
-- Tim Pfaff, Daily Californian
Item Special Note
Order must be received by the last performance date on July 21st, 2013.
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