December 31 - New Music New Year's Bash

Mark Alburger and Harriet March Page
request the honor of your presence
at a year-end concert-party!
(Fresh Voices XI
Festival of New Works)

New
Music
New
Year's
Bash
10pm-12:00midnight
December 31, 2011

Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA

A benefit for Goat Hall and SF Composers Orchestra

Nancy Bloomer Deussen's Adirondack Morn;

John Bilotta's Yeats Songs, with Tristan Robben; Philip Freihofner's Where My Breathing Whispers (Diane Frank), with Eliza O'Malley and Kelsey Walsh;

Ji Yoo's performance of Motherless Child;

Kurt Weill's Lonely House (Annemarie Ballinger) and  

First Threepenny Finale (Harriet March Page);

Martha Stoddard's Quartet for Two Oboes and Two Bassoons and Duo for Bassoons (with Philip Freihofner, Mark Alburger, and Michael and

Lori Garvey);

Dylan Greengard's Bullfight with Self, The Plight of Josef K., and  

The Wrath of Poseidon (the latter in which the composer-guitarist is joined by violinist Asuka Yanai;

Mark Alburger's Business As Usual and

Rozalina Gutman's Music.  We wrap up official proceedings at 11:45pm, toasting the coming year with a theme-and-variations playlist of multiple Auld Lange Synes found online including --

Andrew L
Andre Rieu
A Beautiful Lotus
Harry Koizumi
Jack Ingram
Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis
Anne McGinty
Kenny G
Alfred Publications

-- counting down to the witching hour, shouting,

dancing, and singing Christmas Carrels - A: Lang Syne.  

October 15 / 29 - The Kurt Weill Project

Moon Floating on Water

Songs by Kurt Weill from Threepenny Opera, Happy End,
Unknown Kurt Weill, Broadway, and more

Saturday, October 15, 10 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.,
Revolution Cafe  -   3248 22nd Street, San Francisco
No Tickets Required, No Cover Charge

Allan Crossman, Music Director
Harriet March Page, Director

Sibel Demirmen, Soprano
Zoltan DiBartolo, Tenor
Alexis Lane Jensen, Mezzo-Soprano
Michelle Jasso, Soprano
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano

Pianist:  Martha Cooper
Accordionist: John Bilotta

Part I – Songs of Ships and the Sea
Part II – Broadway & Moon Songs
Part III – Songs from the Threepenny Opera

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http://www.youtube.com/user/GoatHallProductions

A Weill Hallowe'en

Songs by Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht, Broadway, opera, and more.

Saturday, October 29, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.,
Cafe Royale  -  800 Post Street, San Francisco
No Tickets Required, No Cover Charge

Come in costume!  Featuring the amazing Weill Thieves,
Whores and Beggars .....

Sibel Demirmen, Soprano
Zoltan DiBartolo, Tenor
Alexis Lane Jensen, Mezzo-Soprano
Michelle Jasso, Soprano
Justin Marsh, Tenor
Molly Mahoney, Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano

Pianist:  Martha Cooper
Accordionist: John Bilotta

Opera and Song

Opera and Song
November 13, 2010
Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
 

Job: A Masque, with Harriet March Page (God / Bildad the Shuhite),



Heather Klein (Elihu / Servant I),



Marilyn Pratt (Job), Kate Bautch (Job's Wife / Servant III),



Suzanna Mizell (Eliphaz the Temanite / Servant II), and Maria Mikheyenko (Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Servant IV), on John Bilotta's Opera and Song program, also featuring
his



Yeats Songs and



Trifles, plus




Ed Knight's Life Is Fine and




Sylvia Rickard's Three Cabaret Songs.

June 17 - Fresh Voices X Festival of New Works / Season X

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31Zfc3FJBA&feature=channel_video_title

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

Peter Josheff's Inferno

Peter Josheff's Inferno (libretto by Jamey Robles) -- quite impressive, compositionally, librettoly, stagecraftily (re lighting, set, and Harriet March Page's direction), with first-class dancers and pianistic fireworks, and a wow cast including Eliza O'Malley, Richard Mix, and a talented newcomer to the scene who has performed with John Kendall Bailey's Trinity Opera, among others.

No Exit / The Old Maid and the Thief

Goat Hall Productions /


San Francisco Cabaret Opera's double bill of Zak Watkins's No Exit




(after Jean-Paul Sartre), and




(Hadley at the piano for both productions) Gian Carlo Menotti's




The Old Maid




and the Thief.




with a dream cast of female leads Michelle Jasso, Meghan Dibble, and Suzanna Mizell in the latter.




Cast party after at Tuk-Tuk Tai, with director Harriet March and Wayne Wong (Garcin);




Meghan,




Michelle,




Suzanna, and




Diane.

Fresh Voices IX: Festival of New and Used Works (B)

Fresh Voices IX's Program B with



Meghan Dibble (as a bratty child),




Jo Vincent Parks (here with Michael Muhammed), and




Eliza O'Malley, in Sheli Nan's Saga;



Wayne Wong and



Indre Vistkontas realizing David Heuser's The Golden Ax;




Cary Roscoe and Elizabeth Henry singing Warren Gooch's Academy Songs;




Chris Pratorius's Roxane de Boveda with C.A. Jordan, Joaquin Quilez-Marin (above), Cecily Greaburn, and Zoltan Lundy;




Edward Knight's Tales Not Told featuring Rosko, Dalyte Kodzis, Kristen Brown, Henry, and Viskontas;




Veronika Krausas' Beckettian




Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth bewitched by Michelle Jasso, Brown, Julia Hathaway, Sarah-Nicole Ruddy; and Lan-chee Lam's The Lady Doth Protest Too Much from Rachel Warner and Edward Coverdale.