Puccini’s Turandot is a classic example of the height of the Italian romantic style – through-composed opera with lush orchestral textures, demanding larger voices to declaim highly emotional themes. Most of Puccini’s operas are truly verismo operas in their conception, like La bohème and Tosca, recounting in ‘real time’ tales of love and sometimes violence rather than the mythological and real kings and queens or counts and countesses of the earlier operas. Turandot breaks the mold and is based on a Persian myth which Puccini sets in China. Here Puccini fits the ancient tale of the Princess Turandot in the operatic sound-world that he helped propel. Join pianist Derrick Goff and tenor Cameron Schutza as we explore how to listen to this changing operatic style.
Please join us for the Season Opener Breakfast Reception at 11:30am in the Wasserstein Gallery prior to the lecture-recital at 12pm.
Taking inspiration from the landscape and materials around us, Laurie Lambrecht invites you to consider where we are through the art of weaving. Using found materials such as driftwood, beach finds, old picture frames and recycled fabrics, Laurie shares her process of creating looms and site-inspired weaving. Open to everyone. No experience necessary.
Come with the materials you find, leave with a loom, work in process or finished piece, and inspiration aplenty!
Pre-opera lecture on Massenet’s Manon.
An Enduring Love Story
The most popular of his operas, Massenet’s “Manon” is regularly performed around the world. Its roles are a dramatic and musical feast and the all-star cast in the upcoming Metropolitan Opera production should make for a thrilling performance. I look forward to sharing with you the story behind the legendary heroine who fascinated not only Massenet, but authors, artists and other composers, including Giacomo Puccini.
Join us for a sun filled afternoon of workshops, performances, and gallery tours as we celebrate our exhibit ugo rondinone: sunny days!
In addition to workshops led by local artists and performances by student ensembles, we will be joined by the artist himself, Ugo Rondinone, to celebrate and congratulate the over 300 students whose artwork is displayed in the exhibit.
1–3pm: Workshop; Create a Sun Sculpture / Taller; crea una escultura del sol
1–3pm: Workshop; Create a Sun Drawing / Taller; haz un dibujo del sol
1–3pm: Sun Observation with The Montauk Observatory / Observa el sol con Montauk Observatory
1–3pm: Performances by Student Ensembles / Actuaciones estudiantiles
1:15pm: Bi-Lingual Gallery Tour/Visita bilingüe en la galeriá
2pm: Meet the Artist Ugo Rondinone / Conoce al Artista; Ugo Rondinone
With free treats from Mary’s Marvelous
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright’s inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant’s new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback.
Artists are encouraged to work on any kind of character-based piece for stage: plays, operas, and new forms, as well as dance, musical, puppet, or physical theater. With the performative medium left to the writer, each workshop’s focus develops with the scripts themselves, addressing a variety of concepts, processes, and techniques as needed.
The workshop concludes with a reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright’s inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant’s new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback.
Artists are encouraged to work on any kind of character-based piece for stage: plays, operas, and new forms, as well as dance, musical, puppet, or physical theater. With the performative medium left to the writer, each workshop’s focus develops with the scripts themselves, addressing a variety of concepts, processes, and techniques as needed.
The workshop concludes with a reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright’s inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant’s new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback.
Artists are encouraged to work on any kind of character-based piece for stage: plays, operas, and new forms, as well as dance, musical, puppet, or physical theater. With the performative medium left to the writer, each workshop’s focus develops with the scripts themselves, addressing a variety of concepts, processes, and techniques as needed.
The workshop concludes with a reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright’s inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant’s new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback.
Artists are encouraged to work on any kind of character-based piece for stage: plays, operas, and new forms, as well as dance, musical, puppet, or physical theater. With the performative medium left to the writer, each workshop’s focus develops with the scripts themselves, addressing a variety of concepts, processes, and techniques as needed.
The workshop concludes with a reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright’s inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant’s new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback.
Artists are encouraged to work on any kind of character-based piece for stage: plays, operas, and new forms, as well as dance, musical, puppet, or physical theater. With the performative medium left to the writer, each workshop’s focus develops with the scripts themselves, addressing a variety of concepts, processes, and techniques as needed.
The workshop concludes with a reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.
Wednesdays, October 16–November 20 from 6–9pm
PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a six-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright’s inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant’s new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback.
Artists are encouraged to work on any kind of character-based piece for stage: plays, operas, and new forms, as well as dance, musical, puppet, or physical theater. With the performative medium left to the writer, each workshop’s focus develops with the scripts themselves, addressing a variety of concepts, processes, and techniques as needed.
The workshop concludes with a reflection on the preceding weeks’ work, and a final reading where the writers can hear excerpts from their latest re-write with an invited audience.
