CINDERELLA SURF’S UP ! JOHN HOOMES’ ORIGINAL STAGING TAKES ROSSINI’S CINDERELLA TO THE BEACH

A number of years ago, while directing and, of course, our audience! (Who we’re When the show premiered in Rome in a show at a summer festival, I was asked to finding is hungry to experience a live 1817, Rossini’s Cinderella was met with in - stage scenes from a variety of using evening of music and theater!) difference by both the critics and the au - the company’s resident young artists. One Saturday, June 12, after much thought dience. However, like many other operas of my assignments was the grand finale of and planning, Nashville will once that suffered early lukewarm receptions, Act 1 from Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Cin - again offer live performance with a zany, Cinderella quickly caught on throughout derella)— a fantastic, extended scene with beach-themed production of Rossini’s Italy and soon after began to be produced madcap music, chases, and mistaken iden - comic opera Cinderella. And in yet another all over the world. Its first U.S. production tities. As it was summer, we decided to surprising pivot, we’ll be performing out - was in New York City in 1826, and for stage the scene in a manner more fitting to doors on the open-air stage at the Ascend most of the 19th century, Rossini’s Cin - the season. So, instead of the traditional Amphitheater in downtown Nashville. derella was more popular than his Barber of setting with ballgowns and castles and, Though already planned to close our Seville. Today Cinderella is considered one since Rossini intentionally downplayed the 40th Anniversary Season, Rossini’s Cin - of the top operatic comedies ever written. magic in his version of Cinderella, we derella seems the perfect opera with which Rossini was only 25 years old when he shifted the entire scene to the beach, in - to return to live performance. It is hands composed Cinderella. The previous year, corporating swimsuits, beachballs, and in - down one of the most famous fairy tales he had a huge success with The Barber of flatable pool rafts. We also cranked up the in the world and, since it’s summer and Seville. Always a fast worker, Rossini is said slapstick comedy of the piece, ending up we’ll be outdoors, the beach-blanket over - to have written Cinderella in three weeks, with a cross between an operatic version lay is even more spot on! adding a few plot twists and new comic of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, Gilligan’s Island, characters that did not appear in the orig - and those colorful Beach Party movies of ROSSINI’S VERSION inal fairy tale. One big change Rossini the early 1960s. made was to downplay the magical ele - The scene was such a huge hit with the Innocent Cinderella, neglected and mis - ments of the story, creating a non-magical audience, I was invited to recreate it again treated by her unappreciative family, is the resolution at the end of the show. In the next summer with a different group of good-hearted girl who winds up marrying Rossini’s opera, Cinderella doesn’t depend artists. As we were rehearsing the scene the handsome prince in the end. The story on a magic pumpkin carriage or cute danc - and one character was being pelted with we all know today originated with French ing mice to overcome her troubled situa - beachballs, I remember thinking, “I won - writer Charles Perrault, who published tion. In fact, a major theme of the opera der if it would be possible to do the entire “Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper” in is overcoming adversity by drawing on opera like this?” And thus, was spawned 1697. The Brothers Grimm wrote their strength and goodness from within. the idea for what I like to call Beach Party version in 1812 and Disney gave us its In our beach-party staging of the opera, Cinderella. iconic Hollywood animation in 1950. that is exactly what happens! Cinderella The pandemic has played havoc with Even though its plot is full of innocent makes her way from her stepfather’s bro - arts groups all over the country. When it fairy-tale charm, Cinderella has a healthy ken-down surf shop to the Prince’s tony comes to programming and scheduling dose of adult longing and many poignant yacht club, overcoming all obstacles with over the past year, I am proud of the way moments. courage and determination—ever gentle Nashville Opera has worked to stay alive What better composer than Rossini to and kind of spirit. To help fill out the during this challenging time. But at the write an operatic version? A master of missing magic moments, we’ll be adding heart of every opera company is live per - bubbly fast-paced comedies, Rossini was beachballs, a surf-and-sand party, inflatable formance. With that in mind, the staff of also known for placing touching scenes be - flamingos, simulated synchronized swim - Nashville Opera set forth a few months tween the laughs. He called his opera Cin - ming, and a comic encounter with a shark. ago trying to figure out how best to make derella a dramma giocoso —truly a masterful We’re so glad you’re joining us at Ascend that happen. Just how does one create a blend of drama and comedy. Despite its Amphitheater for this family-friendly live performance while mitigating as much serious side, Cinderella is still one of comic adventure! risk as possible for our staff, our singers, Rossini’s funniest operas. JOHN HOOMES CEO & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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CINDERELLA AT ASCEND

THE OPERA RETURNS TO LIVE PERFORMANCES SATURDAY, JUNE 12 WITH BEACH PARTY CINDERELLA

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13 BEACH PARTY CINDERELLA

THE ANN & FRANK BUMSTEAD PRODUCTION

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ANN MARIE & MARTIN McNAMARA III

An opera by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti Premiere January 25, 1817 — Teatro Valle, Rome

Special 90-minute adaptation Ascend Amphitheater JUNE 12 , 2021

Directed by John Hoomes Conducted by Dean Williamson Featuring the Nashville Opera Orchestra CAST Cinderella Emily Fons* Prince Ramiro Matthew Grills* Dandini, the boat mechanic Jonathan Beyer* Don Magnifico, Cinderella’s stepfather Stefano de Peppo* Alidoro, Prince Ramiro’s advisor Christopher Curcuruto† Clorinda, Cinderella’s stepsister Bryn Holdsworth* Thisbe, Cinderella’s stepsister Emily Cottam† Jonas Grumby, narrator Brian Russell Lifeguards Drew Flickinger, Jonathan Thompson CREATIVE Lighting Designer/Assistant Production Manager Barry Steele Costume Designer June Kingsbury Wigs and Makeup Designer Sondra Nottingham Scenic Design Cara Schneider Pianist Amy Tate Williams Propsmaster Lucious Rhoads Supertitles Creator John Hoomes PRODUCTION Director of Production Randy Williams Production Stage Manager Emily Barber Assistant Stage Manager Isaac Krispin Supertitles Operator Hannah Marcoe Costume Crew Pam Lisenby, Jayme Locke * Nashville Opera Debut Wigs and Makeup Crew Alysia Faith, Taylor Martin † 2021 Mary Ragland Emerging Artist Production Crew Robert Helvey, Annmarie Mizzoni Live Video MooTV Lighting & Audio Morris Lighting and Sound

14 SYNOPSIS

THIS SYNOPSIS HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT JOHN HOOMES’S BEACH-PARTY STAGING

It’s morning in the broken-down surf shop owned by Don Dandini confesses to Don Magnifico that he is actually the Magnifico. Cinderella, known as Angelina, is doing the prince’s boat mechanic. Dandini then throws the enraged household chores, as her vain stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe Don Magnifico out of the yacht club. dance and primp. A knock at the door introduces Alidoro, Don Magnifico, Clorinda, and Tisbe return home and take advisor of Prince Ramiro, disguise as a poor beach bum. their anger out on Cinderella. A huge storm blows through, Cinderella’s stepsisters try to throw him out, but Cinderella and after it passes, Dandini appears with news that the sneaks Alidoro some food. Word arrives that on this very prince’s sports car has broken down outside the surf shop. evening the prince is holding a fantastic beach party at his exclusive yacht club And at this beach party, the prince will Prince Ramiro finds Cinderella, and she suddenly realizes choose his bride. that he is actually the prince! The two go off together, leav - ing everyone else attempting to make sense of what has just The ensuing commotion awakens the girl’s father, Don Mag - happened. nifico. He is angry from being pulled from a splendid dream about a donkey. Clorinda and Tisbe relate the news of the In the joyous final scene at the prince’s yacht club, Cinderella beach party to their father. proclaims her happiness. She pardons her stepfather and stepsisters for their treatment of her. Everyone hails Cin - Soon thereafter, the prince enters in disguise as his own boat derella’s beauty and wisdom as goodness is triumphant. mechanic, Dandini. When the prince and Cinderella see each other, it’s love at first sight. But when her father bel - lows, Cinderella rushes out to attend to his needs. The boat mechanic Dandini arrives (disguised as Prince Ramiro). He is there to escort Don Magnifico’s daughters to the beach party. Cinderella asks permission to attend the Mezzo- party too, but Don Magnifico tells her no. Everyone heads Emily Fons to the beach resort, leaving Cinderella behind. Alidoro re - heads the cast turns and tells Cinderella that he will help her get to the of Nashville Opera’s beach party, but she must go in disguise. CINDERELLA. On the private beach of the yacht club, Dandini, continuing his masquerade as the prince, tells Clorinda and Tisbe that he can marry only one young woman, but the other can marry his boat mechanic. The sisters angrily reject this idea. Alidoro suddenly announces the arrival of a mystery lady to the beach party. Cinderella enters in disguise. When she re - veals herself, the sisters feel that this new girl looks too much like their stepsister to be considered any serious competition. Everyone jumps into the surf to swim and frolic. Near the end of the beach party, Cinderella gives Prince one of her crystal flip flops and tells him to search for the young woman wearing the other flip flop. She tells him that if he can find out who she really is, and still wants to her, she will gladly marry him. Cinderella leaves. Ramiro demotes Dandini and assumes his rightful role as prince, vowing to find his unknown love.

15 Stage Director Conductor Cinderella Prince Ramiro JOHN DEAN EMILY MATTHEW HOOMES WILLIAMSON FONS GRILLS Nashville Opera Nashville Opera mezzo-so*prano * CEO & Artistic Director Music Director 1995 –Present Recent Recent 2015 –Present Rosina Ernesto Nashville Opera Nashville Opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia Don Pasquale The Lighthouse Romeo and Juliet San Diego Opera Opera Santa Barbara Samson and Delilah Samson and Delilah Hänsel First Water Elmer Gantry The Girl of the Golden West Hänsel und Gretel Der Rosenkavalier Aïda The Difficulty of Canadian Opera Company Metropolitan Opera Don Giovanni Crossing a Field Andrea Chénier Cinderella Angelina Ramiro The Fall of the House of Usher The Man Who Mistook La Cenerentola La Cenerentola The Girl o f the Golden West His Wife for a Hat Opera Seattle Opera The Difficulty of The Barber of Seville Laurene Powell Jobs Pedrillo Crossing a Field Romulus Hunt The [R]evolution of Steve Jobs Die Entführung The Man Who Mistook Florencia en el Amazonas Seattle Opera aus dem Serail His Wife for a Hat Hydrogen Jukebox Bayerische Staatsoper Lyric Opera of Romulus Hunt Three Way Atlanta Opera Florencia en el Amazonas Maria de Buenos Aires New Orleans Opera Hydrogen Jukebox Upcoming Madame Butterfly Medoro Così fan tutte Orlando Upcoming Glory Denied Recent Snout Haymarket Opera Three Way Florencia en al Amazonas A Midsummer Night’s Dream Maria de Buenos Aires New York City Opera Ariodante Santa Fe Opera Ariodante Tales of Hoffmann La Cenerentola Conte Almaviva The Cradle Will Rock Arizona Opera Internationale Händel- Festspiele Göttingen Il Barbiere di Siviglia Recent Three Way Utah Opera Prince Orlofsky Florencia en el Amazonas American Opera Projects Shepherd New York City Opera Brooklyn Academy of Music Die Fledermaus Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Oedipus Rex Pensacola Opera Merola Grand Finales Concert Opera Elmer Gantry San Francisco Opera Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro Hometown Don Giovanni Sandy Hook, CT Florentine Opera Upcoming Seattle Opera Madama Butterfly Three Way Opera Idaho Hometown Residence American Opera Projects , Wisconsin Portland, OR Brooklyn Academy of Music Le Nozze di Figaro Arizona Opera Residence Turandot Cudahy, Wisconsin Knoxville Opera Hydrogen Jukebox University of Washington Glory Denied School of Music Opera Birmingham Hometown Hometown Taipei, Taiwan (birthplace) Mobile, Alabama Bellevue, Washington

Residence Residence NASHVILLE OPERA DEBUT Nashville, Tennessee Bellevue, Washington * 16 Dandini Don Magnifico Alidoro Clorinda JONATHAN STEFANO CHRISTOPHER BRYN BEYER DE PEPPO CURCURUTO HOLDSWORTH * * bass-baritone † soprano *

Recent Recent Nashville Opera Recent Danilo Gaudenzio 2021 Mary Ragland Clorinda Merry Widow Il Signor Bruschino Emerging Artist La Cenerentola Hong Kong Sarasota Opera Nashville Opera ON TOUR Atlanta Opera Mad King Uberto Ghost Quartet Davies’ La Serva Padrona Recent Soprano Eight Songs for a Mad King Sarasota Opera Zweiter Soldat The Ghosts of Versailles Philadelphia Salome Opéra de royal de Versailles Bartolo Dallas Symphony Orchestra Marcello Il Barbiere di Siviglia Annina La Bohème Opera Colorado Gus O'Neill La Traviata Oper Frankfurt Later the Same Evening The Glimmerglass Festival Don Pasquale UNT Opera All Star’s Contestant Don Pasquale Krysia Worst Cooks in America UGA Raimondo Out of Darkness Food Network Lucia di Lammermoor The Atlanta Opera Upcoming UNT Opera Upcoming Dulcamara Hometown Teaching Elixir of Love Horace Giddens Stewartsville, NJ Chautauqua Institution Opera Maine Regina Chautauqua, New York UNT Opera Residence Sacristan Atlanta, GA Teaching Tosca Fort Worth Opera Opera Colorado Curtis Institute of Music Hometown Philadelphia Bartolo Sydney, Australia Teaching Il Barbiere di Siviglia Residence Trentino Music Festival Pensacola Opera Denton, Texas Italy Hometown Recitals Milan, Italy Philadelphia Chicago Residence New York City Hometown Orland Park, IL

Residence New York City

NASHVILLE OPERA DEBUT † 2021 MARY *RAGLAND EMERGING ARTIST

17 Thisbe Jonas Grumby, narrator Pianist Lighting Designer Asst. Production Manager EMILY J. BRIAN AMY TATE COTTAM RUSSELL WILLIAMS BARRY STEELE mezzo-sopran†o actor Nashville Opera 1998 –Present Nashville Opera Nashville Opera Nashville Opera 2021 Mary Ragland The Cradle will Rock Founder Der Rosenkavalier Emerging Artist Die Fledermaus Randamwill Music The Lighthouse La Voix Humaine Nashville Opera ON TOUR The Difficulty of Crossing a Field Opera Director Lucia di Lammermoor Tennessee Governor’s Recent Faust, Salome Dora Recent School for the Arts Surrender Road Equinox The Manchurian Candidate 2003 –present Turandot, 2006, 2015 Tennessee Playwrights Seagle Festival Romeo and Juliet Studio Nashville Opera Madame Butterfly Peron's Mistress Music Director: Patrick Barlow's Amahl and the Night Visitors Samson and Delilah Evita The Fall of the House of Usher Seagle Festival Christmas Carol Hansel and Gretel Inherit the Wind The Cradle Will Rock Andrea Chénier Serse Nashville Repertory Theatre The Girl of the Golden West Serse World Premieres: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field Arizona State University Imaginary Invalid Elmer Gantry The Man Who Mistook University of N. Colorado Surrender Road His Wife for a Hat Street Singer Henry V Three Way The Magic Flute Leonard Bernstein’s MASS Dalton, Georgia Pianist/Chorusmaster: La Bohème, 2014 Arizona State University Romulus Hunt King Lear Glory Denied Upcoming Romulus Hunt Florencia en el Amazonas Grand Valley Shakespeare Hydrogen Jukebox Julia Twitchell Festival The Man Who Mistook Harmony (World Premiere) His Wife for a Hat Don Giovanni Seagle Festival Hamlet The Difficulty of Crossing Glory Denied Nashville Shakespeare Three Way Soloist a Field Festival The Fall of the House of Usher Carmen, Tosca, Otello Irving Berlin Revue Maria de Buenos Aires HBO Max Hydrogen Jukebox Seagle Festival Susannah Tropical Cop Tales The Lighthouse Hometown Turandot Tales of Hoffmann Salt Lake City, Utah Upcoming La Fanciulla del West The Cradle Will Rock Two Gentleman of Verona La Bohème Recent Residence Conasauga Shakespeare Madama Butterfly Salt Lake City, Utah Don Giovanni Salome Hometown Edmonton Opera Elizabethtown, KY Der Rosenkavalier Samson et Dalila Die Fledermaus Residence Romeo et Juliette Flight Nashville, TN Andrea Chénier Des Moines Metro Opera Maria de Buenos Aires Ring of Fire Tales of Hoffmann Capital Repertory Theatre

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18 Costume Designer Wigs & Makeup Designer Scenic Designer JUNE SONDRA CARA KINGSBURY NOTTINGHAM SCHNEIDER Resident Costume Designer Nashville Opera Nashville Opera Lipscomb Theatre Department Florencia en el Amazonas Creative Director Salome 1995–Present Recent Elmer Gantry Nashville Shakespeare Festival Il Trovatore Nashville Opera Nashville Repertory Theater Glory Denied The Student Prince Florencia en el Amazonas People’s Branch Theater The Fall of the House of Usher Belmont University Theater Romulus Hunt Rigoletto The Difficulty of Actors Bridge Theatre The Girl of the Golden West Vanderbilt University Opera Crossing a Field Madame Butterfly The Cradle Will Rock Nashville Children’s Theatre The Difficulty of Nashville Ballet Crossing a Field Nashville Opera Costumes for the band The Man Who Mistook ON TOUR Here Come the Mummies His Wife for a Hat The Brothers Grimm Romulus Hunt Sid the Serpent Video shoots Glory Denied Little Red’s Most and Jewel Tales of Hoffmann Unusual Day Album cover shoots Billy Goats Gruff Ben Folds: Way to Normal Recent Jack and the Beanstalk Abduction from the Seraglio Goldilocks and the Film Ariadne auf Naxos Three Singing Bears The Identical St. Petersburg Opera The Three Little Pigs Magazine cover shoots Das Rheingold Vanity Fair: Nicole Kidman Recent La Traviata Florencia en el Amazonas InStyle: Nicole Kidman North Carolina Opera New York City Opera Glamour: Carrie Underwood Turandot Pensacola Opera TV shows Dead Man Walking Glory Denied “Nashville Star” Shreveport Opera Opera Birmingham “Gone Country” Witches of Venice The Brothers Grimm Taylor Swift (World Premiere) Lyric Opera of Chicago Speak Now Tour Il Postino “Opera in Our Figaro Hometown Neighborhoods” Tour Nashville, Tennessee The Long Walk Opera Saratoga Hometown Residence Harrodsburg, Kentucky Nashville, Tennessee Carmen Un Ballo in Maschera Residence Opera Tampa Nashville, Tennessee Three Way American Opera Projects Brooklyn Academy of Music

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19 THE NASHVILLE OPERA ORCHESTRA

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Christina McGann, Charles Dixon PICCOLO Jennifer Kummer concert master Carl Larson Deanna Little Harry Ditzel Simona Rusu Kristen Holritz Ching-Yi Lin Michael Holub TRUMPET Josh Holritz OBOE Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Joel Treybig CELLO Jared Hauser Deidre Fominaya Bacco Preston Bailey Nicholas Thompson Chuck Callahan Michael Samis Sari Reist TROMBONE SECOND VIOLIN Sarah Berry CLARINET David Loucky Todd Waldecker Stephen Miahky BASS Mark J. Cramer Zoya Leybin Eliza Cho Craig E. Nelson Amy Helman Tiffany Freeman BASSOON

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20 Need a Beach Party br ush-up ?

In 1963, American International Pictures released Beach Party starring and Annette Funicello, and with it a genre was born. Seven more Beach Party movies followed from the studio, as it quickly became o ne of the most successful cinematic trends of all time. Low-budget and easily produced, beach-party films were profitable and developed their own cult fandom. Their appeal lay in their fantastic escapism, simple themes, and the idea of good clean fun.

Dancing, surfing, teen rebellion, motorcycles, and summer love were de rigueur in movies like Beach Party , B each Blanket Bingo (1965), Where the Boys Are (1960), and (1964). Music was another key element, and beach-party films featured major artists such as Stevie Wonder, the Animals, , Little Richard, and the Supremes. During the 60s, beach-party films fueled the popularity of surfing and exploded U.S. bikini sales by 3000%. (Ironically many were filmed during the winter with actors in full body makeup!)

One of the genre’s most beloved stars was Annette Funicello, who appeared in at least five Beach Party films. Her show-business career began as a Mouseketeer on and grew immensely throughout the and 60s. Annette’s mentor, , in - sisted she wear a one-piece bathing suit in Beach Party films in order to maintain a modest public image. (No bikinis?!) Other actors known for their roles in Beach Party films included Linda Evans, , and Elizabeth Montgomery.

Years later, audiences would demand a more realistic portrayal of the young-adult experi - ence. In 1987, genre royalty Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello were featured in which parodied their previous wholesome films.

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