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The '''Brooklyn Repertory Opera''' is a [[Park Slope, Brooklyn]]-based [[opera]] company founded in 2006 by [[artistic director]] |
The '''Brooklyn Repertory Opera''' is a [[Park Slope, Brooklyn]]-based [[opera]] company founded in 2006 by [[artistic director]]Kathleen Keske and [[executive director]] Brett Wynkoop. The company formed to continue producing a new opera, ''A.F.R.A.I.D.'', based upon the life of [[Fanny Fern]] by composer/librettist Susan Stoderl, which had a successful run in the 2005 [[New York International Fringe Festival]]. In March of 2010, BRO will produce another Stoderl opera, The Veil of Forgetfulness. |
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BRO performs in a former bathhouse and landmark building, known as the Brooklyn Lyceum. Beginning in June 2007, the company began performing [[public domain]] works from the [[List of important operas|standard repertoire]]: ''[[Così fan tutte]]'', ''[[Fidelio]]'', ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'', ''[[Hänsel und Gretel (opera)|Hänsel und Gretel]]'', ''[[Le Nozze di Figaro]]'', ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'', ''[[Un Ballo in Maschera]]'' and [[Ariadne auf Naxos]], all in English translations for the purpose of making opera accessible to a wider audience. |
BRO performs in a former bathhouse and landmark building, known as the Brooklyn Lyceum. Beginning in June 2007, the company began performing [[public domain]] works from the [[List of important operas|standard repertoire]]: ''[[Così fan tutte]]'', ''[[Fidelio]]'', ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'', ''[[Hänsel und Gretel (opera)|Hänsel und Gretel]]'', ''[[Le Nozze di Figaro]]'', ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'', ''[[Un Ballo in Maschera]]'' and [[Ariadne auf Naxos]], all in English translations for the purpose of making opera accessible to a wider audience. |
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*[http://www.bropera.org Brooklyn Repertory Opera Website] |
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*[http://www.triobellacantare.com/John_review10.html Trio Bella Cantare reviews] BRO's Hansel and Gretel |
*[http://www.triobellacantare.com/John_review10.html Trio Bella Cantare reviews] BRO's Hansel and Gretel |
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*[http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26300&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1] Epoch Times article |
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The Brooklyn Repertory Opera is a Park Slope, Brooklyn-based opera company founded in 2006 by artistic directorKathleen Keske and executive director Brett Wynkoop. The company formed to continue producing a new opera, A.F.R.A.I.D., based upon the life of Fanny Fern by composer/librettist Susan Stoderl, which had a successful run in the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival. In March of 2010, BRO will produce another Stoderl opera, The Veil of Forgetfulness.
BRO performs in a former bathhouse and landmark building, known as the Brooklyn Lyceum. Beginning in June 2007, the company began performing public domain works from the standard repertoire: Così fan tutte, Fidelio, Cavalleria rusticana, Hänsel und Gretel, Le Nozze di Figaro, Orfeo ed Euridice, Un Ballo in Maschera and Ariadne auf Naxos, all in English translations for the purpose of making opera accessible to a wider audience.
Conductors who have worked with Brooklyn Repertory Opera are Hardin Butcher, Stephen Francis Vasta, Conrad Chu, Yoon Jae Lee, Roger Malouf, Christopher Fecteau, Harry Saltzman, Francesco Lecce-Chong and Jason Wirth. Beginning with the production of Hänsel und Gretel, the company added a dance mistress, Mary Silverstein who has sung in the chorus and comprimario roles with BRO.
Among the singers who have performed multiple times with the company are Kathleen Keske, Francis Liska, Pamela Scanlon, Jay Gould, Marcella Caprario, Barrett Cobb, Mary Jane Dingledy, Elizabeth Eiel, Ivy Frenkel, Courtenay Schowalter, Allison Atteberry, Kathleen Gorman, Shannon Elizabeth Hunt, Jocelyne O'Toole, Nicholas Tamagna, Matthew Yohn, Eric Jorgenson, Jonathan Ichikawa, Ilberto Lagana, Wilma Wever, Tracey Adele Cooper, Alyssa Bowlby, Karmen Kluge, Melissa Gerstein, Ilya Speranza, Angela Billings, Stefanie Izzo, Amanda White, Matthew Smedberg, Susanna Raymond, Leslie Tay, Dominique Rosoff, and Peter Schmitz.
A skilled cartoonist, Francis Liska drew the advertising artwork for Fidelio, Cavalleria, Hansel & Gretel, Figaro, Ballo and Ariadne. Barrett Cobb, an award-winning portrait and landscape painter, painted the artwork for the advertising and projections in Orfeo, and the projections used in Ariadne.
The Brookyln Repertory Opera made history during the performances of Giuseppe Verdi's A Masked Ball by being the first production in which a countertenor, Nicholas Tamagna[1], played the role of Ulrica as Ulrico.
External links
- Brooklyn Repertory Opera Website
- Trio Bella Cantare reviews BRO's Hansel and Gretel
- [2] Epoch Times article
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