PROGRAM
VICTORIA BOND—How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct (puppet operetta)
HERSCHEL GARFEIN—King of the River, text by STANLEY KUNITZ
ROBERT PATERSON—The Companion (one-act opera from Three Way), libretto by DAVID COTE
AMERICAN MODERN ENSEMBLE
Geoffrey Andrew McDonald (Garfein and Paterson) & Victoria Bond (Bond), Conductors
Doug Fitch (Bond) & John de los Santos (Paterson), Directors
CAST
Ariadne Greif, Soprano
Glen Seven Allen, Tenor
Phillip Bullock, Baritone
Keith Phares, Baritone
Peter Van Derick, Baritone
Presented by Mostly Modern Projects & Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
***Not an AOP-produced event.
The Companion is Part I in the opera Three Way by Robert Paterson and David Cote. Three Way was development by AOP as part of AOP’s Composers & the Voice program. Additional development by the Fort Worth Opera Frontiers Showcase.
How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct (formerly Adventures of Gulliver) was commissioned by American Opera Projects through the Opera Grants for Female Composers program, made possible through the generosity of The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Development by Gulf Coast Symphony and AOP, with additional support provided by Weltone New Music, Inc..