SUSANNAH POSTER:
http://www.operabrooklyn.com/files/Susannah%20Flyer2.pdf
SUSANNAH PRESS RELEASE:
http://www.operabrooklyn.com/files/Susannah_Press_Release_6_10_09.pdf
BYOB-June 27-Susannah by Carlisle Floyd, libretto by Carlisle Floyd, based on a story from the Apocrypha
By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner, Floyd's Susannah is sung in concert version with Resident Artist Program members and special guest artists, Luke Grooms and Steven Sanders.
Join us for our BYOB at 7:30PM on Saturday, June 27 at Studios 353, 353 W. 48th Street, 2nd floor, between 8th and 9th Aves. Click here for $35 tickets.
Our BYOB operas have been extremely popular since they began four years ago. Intimate audiences experience up-close-and-personal music with the singers. You can bring drinks, we'll have the corkscrew, glasses and snack-type food; come have a great time.
Starring
*denotes special guest artist
Sumayya Ali, Susannah
Nathan Baer, Olin Blitch
Alfred Barclift, Elder Ott
Courtney Carey, Elder McLean
Steven Sanders*, Sam
Luke Grooms*, Little Bat
Patrick Cook, Elder Hayes
Mari-Yan Pringle, Mrs. Gleaton
Grace Brooks, Mrs. McLean
Basia Revi, Mrs. Ott
Nina Riley, Mrs. Hayes
Gregory Spock, Elder Gleaton
William Hicks, Pianist
Jay Meetze, Conductor
Composed 50 years ago at the height of the McCarthy persecutions, it is a flawlessly effective melodrama focused on an innocent woman victimised by a narrow Evangelical community in rural Tennessee. it speaks straight to the heart through music of uninhibited tonal simplicity and Pucciniesque fervour.
--Daily Telegraph
William Hicks, our pianist, has performed SUSANNAH twice with its composer, Carlisle Floyd, supervising, including the opera's premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.