FULL THE HOUSE (Richard Burke) New York 2013 Briana Sakamoto, Jeffrey Sharp, Susan Gonzalez, Lauri Aguirre

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The House   
• Composer: Burke Richard   
• Libretto: Richard Burke    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College Opera Theatre, New York City  
• Recorded: May 2, 2013
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Briana Sakamoto, Jeffrey Sharp, Susan Gonzalez, Lauri Aguirre, Victoria Franco
• Conductor: Paul F. Mueller  
• Orchestra: Hunter College Opera Theatre  
• Chorus: Hunter College Opera Theatre  
• Stage Director: Susan Gonzalez, Dewey Moss  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Susan Gonzalez  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  he House is an opera with music and libretto by Richard Burke that was written expressly for the students of the Hunter College Opera Theater.  It premiered at the Kaye Playhouse on May 2, 2013.
  The first scene takes place in 1939. Young newlyweds, Ben and Emily, are spending their first night in the house. As they sit on the floor playing Monopoly in the dark, they begin to see their future unfold; they imagine their lives and the lives of their children over the next few decades.
  The second scene takes place in 1969, when the house has been rented to a sorority. Two girls, Lenore and Diane, are decorating a Christmas tree and recalling the Vietnam War protests of the previous months. One of them has written an anti-war song which the girls try to sing.
  The third scene takes place in the present. The house, after a century of use and misuse, is abandoned and dilapidated.  A real estate broker has sent three women to see the house: Julia, a dreamy romantic who loves everything about it, her daughter Valerie, who spends her time texting, and Julia’s best friend Mary, who thinks that buying the house is a bad idea.
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