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FULL When Dragons Come To Play (Ashley Hastings) Revised Childrens Opera Astoria OR 2024 Cascadia Chamber Opera
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: When Dragons Come To Play Composer: Libretto:
- Composer: Hastings Ashley
- Libretto: Ashley Hastings Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: First Christian Church, Eugene, Oregon,
- Recorded: November 16, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Anne Ferguson, Emmea Jones, Lyayuka Janice Irungu, Clara Eddleman-Hunley, Bernie Robe, ChrisLynn Taylor
- Conductor: Gustavo Castro
- Orchestra: Gustavo Castro, PIANO
- Stage Director: Karen Esquivel
- Stage Designer: Janet Hutchings, Jennifer Mikel
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Ashley Hastings
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
This version eliminates the parents’ roles and shortens the soccer scene.
A family has just moved into a new house. The parents have set up the children’s playroom to give them a safe place to play while the movers bring the rest of the furniture and boxes. The children accidentally cause a magic door to open in the closet, and two young dragons emerge. After some disbelief and confusion, the four young beings become friends and learn about each other’s ways. Toward the end of the opera, the children in the audience are recruited to sing a magic formula that saves the human boy from being trapped in the dragons’ world.
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