Audition Fever
Music by
Tzu-Chin Hsu
Libretto by
Camden Boyle
Director, Butler Opera Center
Tamar Sanikidze
Conductor
Tzu Kuang Tan
Director
Yingmeige Xiong
Sung in English
This one-act opera explores the chaotic frenzy and overload of emotions that come with auditioning for professional opera companies. Composed by Butler School alumna Tzu-Chin Hsu and premiered as an online concert production during the pandemic, Audition Fever receives a full staging this fall.
L’enfant et les sortilèges
Music by
Maurice Ravel
Libretto by
Colette
Conductor
Douglas Kinney Frost
Director
Garnett Bruce
Sung in French
“Our work requires an extraordinary production: the roles are numerous, and the phantasmagoria is constant,” wrote composer Maurice Ravel, describing his one-act opera about a bratty, bull-headed child whose surroundings come to life. Will the boy learn to respect the life that surrounds him in this world? At a time when empathy seems so hard to find, perhaps magic is the only way to teach it.
Event Details
Free admission