FULL THE ITALIAN LESSON (Healy) Los Angeles CA 2023 Brooke Iva Lohman, Xavier Prado, Eric Castro
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Italian Lesson
- Composer: Healey Peter Wing
- Libretto: Peter Wing Healey Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: The Highland Park Ebell Club, Los Angeles, California, The Mesopotamian Opera Company
- Recorded: June 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Brooke Iva Lohman, Xavier Prado, Eric Castro, Matthew Ian Welch, Jessica Mamey, Christa Marie Stevens, Marco Antonio Lozano, Britta Sterling, Rachel Felstein, Steve Moritsugu, Norge Yip, Andi Dana
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Choreographer: Kenwa Newell
- Stage Director: Peter Wing Healey
- Stage Designer: Claire Fraser
- Costume Designer: Claire Fraser
- Lighting Designer: Georg Lion
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Peter Healey
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
When Kansas City, Kansas, coed Belinda Foxtrot goes to historic Pannacotta, Italy for a year abroad, she little suspects that her British roommate will be brutally murdered or that she will fall prey to the notorious Detective Chief Inspector, Giorgio Cantaricci. After she, and her princely boyfriend, Benissimo, are thrown in jail, we find out that the devious, alcoholic, nun-with-a-past, Sister Flavia, will have a key role in their conviction. Will the mysterious Madame Zia be able to change the terrible verdict – Colpevole — guilty as charged – once Sister Flavia has been shipped off to the Clinic in Beverly Hills?
PETER WING HEALEY, Writer / Composer
Peter Wing Healey is the founder and artistic director of The Mesopotamian Opera Company. Mr. Healey has presented his original operas in New York City and in Los Angeles, where he now lives and works. Mr. Healey’s over forty-year career includes a long and illustrious association with The Mark Morris Dance Group, both as a performer and rehearsal director, and he appeared in the PBS Great Performances production of Mr. Morris’ innovative version of The Nutcracker, The Hard Nut. In addition, Mr. Healey worked on The White Oak Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov and has been balletmaster on the John Adams/Peter Sellars opera Nixon in China from its inception at the Houston Grand Opera, Mr. Healey’s lauded productions have received support from American Opera Projects, The Gilman Foundation, The Noah Wyle Foundation, The Center for the Arts, The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and The James Irvine Foundation.
The Mesopotamian Opera Company
Making original, narrative Lyric Theater since 1985, Mesopotamian Opera Company is a nonprofit organization dedicated to further the teaching and employment, in live performance, of expressive performing arts techniques. The goal is to create work, employment when possible, and contemporary context for the arts of dance, song, recitation and role playing, and all the attendant arts; stage design, music composition, choreography, lighting design, conducting, playing of musical instruments and directing. This goal supports the infrastructure of teachers and coaches, university and college departments, that every year turn out aspiring talent in the field of live, expressive performing arts by laboring to provide another delivery platform for the many years of work and dedication represented in the lyric population.