SEASON X
Fresh Voices X Festival of New Works
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera celebrates its 10th Annual Fresh Voices Festival of New Works 2010 with four evenings of real-life stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive (America) and dark re-creations of old tales with new twists (Europe and Beyond).
Ten fully-staged short operas will Xplore: an erotic transformation in Hungary; starving artists in a sideshow in Czechoslovakia; a pioneer woman in Nebraska driven mad by loneliness; an Xpresident disintegrating in America. And more!
X at the Heart of America
Stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive.
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
Dark re-creations of old tales with new twists.
Featuring Hadley McCarroll and Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
Live Oak Theatre, 1301 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Program A
8pm, Thursday, June 17
8pm, Saturday, June 19
Featuring World and Bay Area premieres of new operas and songs
X at the Heart of America / X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
Edward Knight - Life is Fine (Langston Hughes)
Raina Simons, Soprano
Chris Wittaker - George Bush: The Last Hundred Days
Meghan Dibble
Chelsea Hollow
Nathaniel Marken
Daniel Felsenfeld - The Bloody Chamber
(Elizabeth Isadora Gold, after the novella by Angela Carter)
Indre Viskontas
Jo Vincent Parks
Nanette McGuinness
Mark Alburger - Job: A Masque (after The Book of Job)
Nanette McGuinness, God / Bildad the Shuhite
Crystal Philippi, Satan / Zophar the Naamathite
Marilyn Pratt, Job
Kate Bautch, Job's Wife
Sarita Cannon, Eliaphaz the Temanite
Heather Lauren Klein, Elihu
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John G. Bilotta - Trifles (John F. McGrew)
Michael Desnoyers
Alexandra Jerinic
Nathan Kondrat
Nathaniel Marken
Maria Mikheyenko
Program B
8pm, Friday, June 18
7pm, Sunday, June 20
X at the Heart of America / X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
Alden Jenks - Letter from Linda (Frank Polite)
Indre Viskontas
Sarita Cannon
Robert Denham - Sutter Creek
Wayne Wong
Kate Bautch
Sarita Cannon
Heather Lauren Klein
David Garner - Medea Alone
Kristen Brown
Mark Narins - Theresa Kren
Katherine Howell
Tristan Robben
Jeff Myers - The Hunger Art (Royce Vavrek)
Joshua Beld
Meghan Dibble
Justin Marsh
Eliza O’Malley
Sophia Santulli
Tickets
Advance tickets sales: $20 general admission/$15 seniors/students/TBA
Tickets at door: $25 general admission/$20 seniors/students
Reserve your tickets online or by calling 415-289-6877 or email
“Living up to its name, the Fresh Voices Festival presented a truly amazing selection of new works by San Francisco Bay Area composers and librettists.... Not only is the concept great but so is the quality of musicianship in both the vocal and ensemble performance. Artistic director Harriet March Page and musical director Mark Alburger, tireless champions of new music, demonstrated an energy and vision that was truly astounding. . . .Goat Hall Productions with its innovative programs is proving to be an essential part of the music scene of San Francisco.” -- William Susman, 20th-Century Music
“. . . .I hope that such enjoyable musical theater will eventually find its way even further throughout the region. I’m sure I speak for all the audience when I say I didn’t want it to end!” -- Allan Crossman
