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FULL THE CLUB (Mark Vance) Grass Valley CA 2026 Sarah Saturnino Peranteau, Matthew Cossack
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Club
- Composer: Vance Mark
- Libretto: John Deaderick Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Grass Valley Museum and Cultural Center, California
- Recorded: August 7 & 9, 2026
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Club, A New Opera
THE CLUB SYNOPSIS
Kathryn and Robert are a happily married, middle-class. professional couple living in suburbia. Like most of us, they work hard, save little, and rely on one another for their emotional and financial needs. They don’t have much, but they do have each other. Their social life revolves around their book club; well, Kathryn’s book club, as Robert never quite reads beyond the dust jacket. Robert, content with their lot, cares little for the high-brow stuff, but Kathryn seems to want more. Her aspirations get triggered whenever The Book Club meets.
Alas, everyone else in The Club has what Kathryn thinks she wants. Susan’s table seats twenty and she serves the finest wines— small matter that she and her husband George fight constantly. Then there are Terry and LaMonte with all their photos of their exciting travels and Doug and Patty with photos of their kids. Lots and lots of photos of the kids. Really a lot. Someone always gets drunk, Eleanor always arrives too early, but everyone, I mean everyone, has more than what Kathryn and Robert have. But do they really? And who is this newest addition arriving tonight? What might this surprise guest add to the turbulence? It’s now an hour or so before they all start arriving. Kathryn and Robert have never played host before. It must all be perfect, just like when Susan hosts. Will what they serve measure up? Will their simple fare and simple furnishings provoke disdain? Will Robert and Kathryn’s marriage weather the strain? Our story begins and ends with a doorbell. Let’s see what Kathryn and Robert do in between.