FULL The Brownings Go to Italy (Eleanor Everest Freer) Towson MD 2023 Kit Flaherty, David Adeleye, Katherine Strakna
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Brownings Go to Italy
- Composer: Freer Eleanor Everest
- Libretto: text adapted from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall Towson University, Maryland
- Recorded: May 5, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Kit Flaherty, David Adeleye, Katherine Strakna, Vincent Schiavone
- Conductor: Phillip Colister-Murray
- Orchestra: Towson University Opera Orchestra
- Stage Director: Courtney Kalbacker
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Ashley Gregg
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Voice Division at Towson University
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Eleanor Everest Freer (14 May 1864 – 13 Dec 1942) was an American composer and philanthropist.
Eleanor Everest was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cornelius Everest and Ellen Amelia (Clark) Everest, and studied singing in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and composition with Benjamin Godard. She taught music in Philadelphia and New York City, and married Chicago doctor Archibald Freer in 1893. The couple had one daughter and moved to Chicago in 1899, where Eleanor Freer studied music theory with Bernard Ziehn. In 1934, she received a D.Mus. from the Boguslawski College of Music.
Freer was an active advocate for American opera, and opera sung in English. To this end, she helped to found the Opera in Our Language Foundation (OOLF) in 1921, and the David Bispham Memorial Fund in 1922 to promote concerts of American composers’ works and award a Bispham Medal. The two organizations merged in 1924 to become the American Opera Society of Chicago.
Freer’s one-act opera The Legend of the Piper was performed numerous times by the American Opera Company from 1928 through 1929. She died in Chicago in 1942
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