Mark Adamo joins us to discuss his holiday opera “Becoming Santa Claus”, which was performed at Dallas Opera and is now out on DVD and BluRay.

NOTES

• Memento Mori
  • produced by Manual Cinema
  • at BAM Fisher
• Montclair Peak Performances
  • An Infrasound Opera by Ashley Fure
  • “The Force of Things” An experimental music-theater piece
    • performed by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble
    • Amy Beth Kirsten, composer
    • Columbine’s Paradise Theater
• Quixote
  • Mark DeChiazza, director
  • Montclair State University
  • Mary Finite
  • David Guthrie
• Rev. 23 by White Snake Projects at John Hancock Hall
• Crossing by Matthew Aucoin at BAM Opera House
• The Exterminating Angel
  • Audrey Luna
• M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
  • Julie Taymor, Director
  • Elliot Goldenthal, Composer
• John Corigliano, Composer & Educator
• What Opera could take a hiatus to make room for a New Opera?
  • Tosca
  • Die Fledermaus
  • Don Pasquale
    • Donizetti
  • Rossini
  • Figaro
    • Harvey Weinstein
  • Mozart
    • Lorenzo da Ponte
    • Taught Italian at Columbia
    • Owned a Deli
  • La Boheme
    • Baz Luhrman
    • Rent
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Holiday Performances
  • Nutcracker
  • A House Without a Christmas Tree
    • Ricky Ian Gordon
    • Royce Vavrek
    • Houston Grand Opera
• Becoming Santa Claus
  • Dallas Opera
  • Keith Czerny, Director/CEO
  • Paul Curran, Director
  • Gary McCann, Costume & Set Designer
  • Jonathan Blalock, tenor, Santa
• Lysistrata
  • Fort Worth Opera
  • Darren Woods, General Manager
• Seagle Music Colony
• The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
  • San Francisco Opera
  • Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
• The Aspern Papers
  • Dallas Opera
  • Dominick Argento, composer
• New York City Opera
  • Jennifer Rivera
  • Little Women, opera by Adamo
  • James Robinson, Director
• Hansel and Gretel
• Benjamin Britten
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Macy’s
  • Peter Brook, Director
  • Titania
• Leonard Bernstein
• In The Heights
• Grendel
  • L.A. Opera Projects
  • Lincoln Center Theater Festival
  • Julie Taymor, director & co-librettist
  • Elliot Goldenthal, composer
  • J.D. McClatcht, co-librettist
  • Eric Owens, Grendel
  • Denyce Graves, The Dragon
• Sleeping Beauty
• Handbell Choirs
  • Winspear Opera House
• “Anthem”, finale of Becoming Santa Claus
• Mason Bates, a composer
• Carl Orff
• National Sawdust
  • A Night of Mark Adamo on 12/2/17
• Thomas Hampson
• “Aristotle”
• Metropolitan Opera House
  • The Exterminating Angel
  • Thomas Ades, composer/conductor
  • The Tempest
  • Luis Bunuel, filmmaker
• Norma
  • Angela Meade, soprano
  • Jamie Barton, soprano
• The Band’s Visit
  • David Yazbeck, composer/lyricist
  • Itamar Moses, book writer
  • David Cromer, director
• The Red Shoes
  • Matthew Bourne
  • City Center
• The Prince of Broadway
  • Hal Prince
• People, Places and Things
  • St Ann’s Warehouse
  • Olivier Awards
• Contes des Hoffman
• Angels In America
• Carousel
  • Renee Fleming, soprano plays Nettie Helen Vickers
  • Patricia Neway

Credits: Peter Szep, Jonathan Blalock, Walker Lewis, Chuck Sachs, John Lund (Audio Engineer), Peter Szep (Editor)