Audition Fever & L'enfant et les sortilèges

Butler Opera Center

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Three women made of colorful geometric shapes hold scores and practice for their upcoming audition.

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.


an abstract cubist image of squirrel in a garden, wrapped up in bandages

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 Status
Scheduled
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Wednesday, Dec. 4, 7 to 9 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 5, 7 to 9 p.m.

Free admission

Event Types
Free Admission New Music Opera Vocal Arts

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