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)