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West Coast Premiere of Joel Feigin’s Opera Twelfth Night Presented by University of California Santa Barbara Department of Music
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
The West Coast Premiere of the revised version of Joel Feigin’s Twelfth Night, an opera in two acts based on the comedy by William Shakespeare, will be given by the University of California Santa Barbara Department of Music on Friday, January 30 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, February 1 at 1 pm, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the campus of UCSB.
Produced by Benjamin Brecher, Director of the Opera Program at UCSB, and directed by David Grabarkewitz, this new production features singers and musicians performing under the direction of conductor Brent Wilson.
The composer writes about the new work, “Twelfth Night has been a long time in the making. I’ve always loved the play, and already, in 1995, I had set the two songs of the fool, “O Mistress Mine” and “Come away, come away, death”, for baritone, cello and piano. (The first was adapted for the opera; the second was replaced by another setting of the same song.) When, after the success there of my first opera Mysteries of Eleusis, the Opera Studio of the Moscow Sate Conservatory asked me to write another opera, I suggested Twelfth Night and they were delighted. Unfortunately, in the end it proved impossible to present the opera there, but Long Leaf Opera commissioned a chamber orchestra version, which they premiered in 2005.”
The Long Leaf Opera’s 2005 chamber orchestra production was praised by the Raleigh News and Observer for “many striking passages, hushed and shimmering for lovers, sparkling and cheeky for the comic figures." And Classical Voice of North Carolina summarized their reaction by saying that “Feigin succeeded admirably". Excerpts from Twelfth Night were presented at the 2003 New York City Opera VOX Workshop (where it was conducted by the company’s music director, George Manahan) as well as at the New Works Presentations at the 2006 Opera America Conference in Seattle.
Tickets are $20 General Admission, $10 Students, $5 UCSB Students. For directions and more information, call 805-893-3230 or visit http://www.music.ucsb.edu/news/event/532. More about UCSB Department of Music at http://www.music.ucsb.edu/home.
Joel Feigin is a composer whose works have been widely praised for their "very strong impact, as logical in musical design as they are charged with emotion and drama." (Opera Magazine). His first opera Mysteries of Eleusis was performed at the Moscow Conservatory and the Russian-American Operatic Festival. Commissions include a Fromm Commission for Aviv: Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, written for Yael Weiss, as well as piano works for Margaret Mills and Leonard Stein, two orchestral works for the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, and many chamber works. His CDs include the North/South Recordings 2-CD set, Transience, as well as two major piano works performed by Margaret Mills in Meditations and Overtones on Cambria Master Recordings. Feigin’s latest CD, Lament Amid Silence, is on the MSR label (MS1413), and features violist Helen Callus. A Professor of composition at the University of California Santa Barbara, Dr. Feigin studied with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau and with Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School. His website is at http://www.joelfeigin.com.
For press inquiries about composer Joel Feigin, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
The West Coast Premiere of the revised version of Joel Feigin’s Twelfth Night, an opera in two acts based on the comedy by William Shakespeare, will be given by the University of California Santa Barbara Department of Music on Friday, January 30 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, February 1 at 1 pm, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the campus of UCSB.
Produced by Benjamin Brecher, Director of the Opera Program at UCSB, and directed by David Grabarkewitz, this new production features singers and musicians performing under the direction of conductor Brent Wilson.
The composer writes about the new work, “Twelfth Night has been a long time in the making. I’ve always loved the play, and already, in 1995, I had set the two songs of the fool, “O Mistress Mine” and “Come away, come away, death”, for baritone, cello and piano. (The first was adapted for the opera; the second was replaced by another setting of the same song.) When, after the success there of my first opera Mysteries of Eleusis, the Opera Studio of the Moscow Sate Conservatory asked me to write another opera, I suggested Twelfth Night and they were delighted. Unfortunately, in the end it proved impossible to present the opera there, but Long Leaf Opera commissioned a chamber orchestra version, which they premiered in 2005.”
The Long Leaf Opera’s 2005 chamber orchestra production was praised by the Raleigh News and Observer for “many striking passages, hushed and shimmering for lovers, sparkling and cheeky for the comic figures." And Classical Voice of North Carolina summarized their reaction by saying that “Feigin succeeded admirably". Excerpts from Twelfth Night were presented at the 2003 New York City Opera VOX Workshop (where it was conducted by the company’s music director, George Manahan) as well as at the New Works Presentations at the 2006 Opera America Conference in Seattle.
Tickets are $20 General Admission, $10 Students, $5 UCSB Students. For directions and more information, call 805-893-3230 or visit http://www.music.ucsb.edu/news/event/532. More about UCSB Department of Music at http://www.music.ucsb.edu/home.
Joel Feigin is a composer whose works have been widely praised for their "very strong impact, as logical in musical design as they are charged with emotion and drama." (Opera Magazine). His first opera Mysteries of Eleusis was performed at the Moscow Conservatory and the Russian-American Operatic Festival. Commissions include a Fromm Commission for Aviv: Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, written for Yael Weiss, as well as piano works for Margaret Mills and Leonard Stein, two orchestral works for the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, and many chamber works. His CDs include the North/South Recordings 2-CD set, Transience, as well as two major piano works performed by Margaret Mills in Meditations and Overtones on Cambria Master Recordings. Feigin’s latest CD, Lament Amid Silence, is on the MSR label (MS1413), and features violist Helen Callus. A Professor of composition at the University of California Santa Barbara, Dr. Feigin studied with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau and with Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School. His website is at http://www.joelfeigin.com.
For press inquiries about composer Joel Feigin, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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