VIVA L’OPERA Richmond VA 2021 VCU Opera

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: VIVA L'OPERA  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: VCU Opera and Orchestra  
• Recorded: April 25, 2021
• Type: Concert Semi-staged
• Singers: see program below
• Conductor: Daniel Myssyk  
• Orchestra: VCU SYMPHONY  
• Stage Director: Melanie Kohn Day, Kenneth Wood  
• Stage Designer: Mercedes Schaum  
• Costume Designer: Leslie Winn, Ivy Austin  
• Lighting Designer: Curt Blankenship  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: VCUarts Music  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

This production features performances from Hansel and Gretel, The Gondoliers, The Magic Flute, Trouble in Tahiti, The Marriage of Figaro, A Little Nite Music, The Consul, The Merry Widow, Porgy & Bess, and The Pirates of Penzance.

THE GONDOLIERS…………………………..W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
2015 spring production
Act I, scene 1 (9’43”)
VCU Orchestra-conducted by Daniel Myssyk
Setting: The Piazzetta, Venice
Time: about 1750
Fiametta-Tess Ottinger
Giulia-Brenna Miller
Vittoria-Emma-Claire Polich
Francesco-Collier Phillips
Antonio-Forrest Glass
Giorgio-Alan Chavez
Marco Palmieri-DeVonte Saunders
Giuseppe Palmieri-Alex Harper
Women’s Chorus & Chorus of Gondoliers

THE MAGIC FLUTE………………………… Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2011 fall production
Act I, scene 1 (sung in German) (6’20”)
Melanie Kohn Day- piano
Setting: Forest in a mythical land
Time: Legendary
Prince Tamino-Chappell Lee
First Lady-Kelsey Snyder
Second Lady-Jessica Harika
Third Lady-Abigail Stinnett

“What a Movie!” (TROUBLE IN TAHITI)……. Leonard Bernstein
2010 fall production
Melanie Kohn Day-piano (5’15”)
Setting: a street outside of the town’s hat shop
Time: 1950’s
Dinah, not happily married to Sam-Jessica Harika

“In Praise of Women” (A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC)…………………Stephen Sondheim
2010 fall production
Melanie Kohn Day-piano (3’39”)
Setting: Sweden, in the Count’s home
Time: 1900
Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm
a Dragoon-John Tyndall

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HÄNSEL & GRETEL………………………. Engelbert Humperdinck
2011 spring production
Act I, scene 1 and entrance of The Mother (8’57”)
VCU Orchestra-conducted by Daniel Myssyk
Setting: cottage in the woods, Germany
Time: ‘once upon a time’
Gretel-Gianna Barone
Hänsel-Jessica Harika
The Mother-Kelsey Snyder
Act I, scene 2 “The Prayer” (1’46”)
Gretel-Gianna Barone
Hänsel-Jessica Harika

LE NOZZE di FIGARO/THE MARRIAGE of FIGARO ……. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2018 spring production
Act I duet (sung in Italian) (3’00”)
VCU Orchestra-conducted by Daniel Myssyk
Setting: Seville, Count Almaviva’s house
Time: 18th century
Marcellina-Jaylin Brown
Susanna-Tess Ottinger
Act III, sextet (7’03”)
Don Curzio-Connor Terrell
Figaro-Shyheim Hinnant
Count Almaviva-Alan Chavez
Don Bartolo-Chase Peak, VCU alumnus
Marcellina-Jaylin Brown
Susanna-Tess Ottinger

THE CONSUL ………………………….. Gian-Carlo Menotti
2015 fall production
Act II, scene 2 (18’15”)
Melanie Kohn Day-pianist
Setting: The Consulate, a central European totalitarian country
Time: 1950
The Secretary-Margaret Mayes
Mr. Kofner-Forrest Glass
Foreign Woman-Tylahr Dawes
Magda Sorel-Emily Nesbitt
Magician-Collier Phillips
Vera Boronel-Ella Mort
Anna Gomez-Savannah Whittenburg

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THE MERRY WIDOW ………………………. Franz Lehár
2014 spring production
Act I duet (3’22”)
VCU Orchestra-conducted by Daniel Myssyk
Setting: Act I-The Marsovian embassy in Paris
Time: about 1900
Camille de Jolidon-Chappell Lee
Natalie, wife of Baron Popoff-Rachel Madison
Act II, septet (3’31”)
Setting: Act II-Party on the grounds of Sonia’s villa near Paris
Prince Danilo-Alex Harper
Marquis de Cascada-Alan Chavez
Raoul de St. Brioche-Aaron Jones
Baron Popoff-Ryan Blevins
Counsellor Khadza-Evan Coldiron
General Novikovich-Malcolm Jones
Nisch, Embassy Secretary-Forrest Glass

PORGY & BESS………………….. George Gershwin
2016 fall production
Act I, scene 7 duet (5’44”)
Melanie Kohn Day-piano
Setting: Catfish Row-Charleston, South Carolina
Time: 1920’s
Porgy-Shyheim Hinnant
Bess-Jaylin Brown

THE PIRATES of PENZANCE ……………………… W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
2019 spring production
Act I, scene 1 (10’00”)
VCU Orchestra-conducted by Daniel Myssyk
Setting: A rocky seashore on the coast of Cornwall, England
Time: 1910
The Pirate King -Alan Chavez
Chorus of Pirates
Ruth, Pirate Maid-of-All Work-Jasmin Ward
Frederic, the Pirate Apprentice-Micah Baldwin
Act I, scene 3 (3’42”)
Mabel, Major General Stanley’s Ward-Tara Davy
Chorus of the Major General’s Wards
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Act I, Finale (1’30”)
Frederic-Micah Baldwin
Chorus of Major General’s Wards & Chorus of Pirates
Act II, scene 2 (4’48”)
Setting: A chapel in ruins by moonlight
Frederic-Micah Baldwin
Mabel-Tara Davy
Chorus of Police
Chorus of Major General’s Wards
Major General Stanley-Dr. Kenneth Wood
Act II, scene 4 (3’40”)
Chorus of Pirates
Chorus of Police
Frederic-Micah Baldwin
Ruth-Jasmin Ward

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