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Postcards from Morocco EASTMAN OPERA THEATRE POSTCARDS FROM MOROCCO Music by Dominick Argento ‘58E (Ph.D.) Text by John Donahue Timothy Long, conductor Steven Daigle, director VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE Filmed at the EOT Scene Shop from February 22—March 4, 2021 This work is performed in conjunction with the Eastman 1921 – 2021 Centennial PRODUCTION TEAM Director Music Director Steven Daigle Timothy Long Assistant Director Assistant Music Director Madeleine Snow Wilson Southerland Scenic and Integrated Media Design Costume Design Charles Murdock Lucas* Carly Holzwarth Lighting Design Sound Design Nic Minetor Rich Wattie Technical Director Production Stage Manager Mark Houser Josh Lau Scenic Construction & Rigging Costumes & Wardrobe Ramon Rivera Claudette Hercules Jose Maisonet Leah Camilleri Nicole LaClair MaryPat Frohm Audio Engineering & Recording Danielle Suhr Rich Wattie Ray Suarez Greg Thompson Alex Reynolds Properties Philip Milman Danielle Suhr Master Electrician Cinematographer Kate Glendening MaryPat Frohm Mountain House Media A/V Playback Film Editors Michael houser Andrew Sevigny Jeremiah Gryczka Nate Bellavia Matt Lombaro Wigs provided by The Wigboys By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner. * United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE is the union representing Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound, and Projection designers in Live Performance CAST X Cast Y Cast Coloratura Soprano Katriana Kirby- Lady with Hand Mirror/ Jazmine Saunders Kopczynski An Opera Singer Soprano Susanna Stewart Lady with a Cake Box Sofia Scattarreggia Mezzo Soprano Veronica Siebert Lady with a Hat Box/A Megan Brilleslyper Foreign Singer Lyric Person Trevor Scott Person with Old Elise Cismesia Luggage/Puppet #1/ Operetta Singer Tenor Joshua Carlisle Man with a Paint Box Alexander Nick (Mr. Owen) Baritone Edward Bland Man with Shoe Sample David Wolfe Kit/Puppet #2 Bass Seoyong Lee Man with Cornet Case/ Seoyong Lee Puppet Maker ENSEMBLE Timothy Long, conductor Julianna Darby, clarinet/bass clarinet Joseph Moruzzi, alto saxophone Isabella Lau, trombone Will Newton, percussion Brian Dooley, guitar Evan Ritter, piano/celeste Jonathan Fenwick, violin Savannah York, viola Jiayan Yang, bass SETTING A train station in Morocco, 1930s. SYNOPSIS Characters are waiting in a train station; each of them reveals what they do, but will not reveal the contents of their luggage, which they can’t part with. The puppet master, who appears to live in the train station, tries to control and manipulate the passengers. The passengers all leave except one, Mr. Owen, who acts out a story about sailing away on a boat. Mr. Owen rebels against the puppet master, breaking his control over the passengers. The puppet master does retain his control over one of the passengers, The foreign singer, whom he eerily controls at the very last moments of the play. DIRECTOR’S NOTE This opera “has no clearly discernible plot but makes its effects through a powerful series of images and inferences.” The opera highlights human cruelty, and the resulting armor we all put up. Questioning others’ motivations, these characters spend the entire opera suspicious of one another not really seeing their common traits and not aware of the puppet master who is skillfully trying to seduce the passengers to become his marionettes. The lack of structure is a tool used by the creators to control the response forcing a lack of trust in our purpose in life. It is a surrealist opera about a group of strangers in a train station. These passengers guard their possessions because they define them. It is existentialist like the plays of Samuel Beckett. Their possessions create their need for existence rather than some self-motivation. The librettist gives these directions to help define the setting and general tone of the piece. It should be set, “distinctively off or odd...not morbid or peculiar so much as wacky or exotic”. This, and the oddities of the score, help classify it as surreal; an amalgamation of music and text condensed into a one-act opera. As Eastman Opera Theatre planned productions during this unusual time and celebrate the 2021 Eastman School of Music Centennial, this production of Postcard from Morocco by alumnus Dominick Argento ‘58E (Ph.D.) works particularly well for a non-traditional production, because of the small number of singers, instrumentalists, and the surrealist plot. It is an opera about a group of strangers in a train station. Although they are together, each character lives in a separate reality as they protect and guard their possessions. As such, there is an element of social distancing found in the story. This innovative production was designed, produced, and presented as a film originating from Eastman Opera Theatre’s Scene Shop. MEET THE COMPOSER Dominick Argento, considered to be America's pre-eminent composer of lyric opera, was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1927. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Peabody Conservatory and his Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships allowed him to study in Italy and following his Fulbright, Argento became music director of Hilltop Opera in Baltimore, and taught theory and composition at the Eastman School. In 1958, he joined the faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Minnesota, where he taught until 1997 and later held the rank of Professor Emeritus. During his years at Eastman, Argento composed his opera, The Boor (1957), of which John Rockwell of The New York Times stated: “[it] taps deep currents of sentiment and passion.” Following his arrival in Minnesota, Argento accepted commissions from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis. Since the early 1970s Argento’s operas were heard with increasing frequency abroad. Among these are The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (1976), Dream of Valentino (1993), and Casanova's Homecoming (1984), which Robert Jacobson of Opera News hailed as “a masterpiece.” Dominick Argento received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975 for his song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979, and in 1997 was honored with the title of Composer Laureate to the Minnesota Orchestra, a lifetime appointment. Reprinted by kind permission from Boosey and Hawkes. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Estate of Dominick Argento Jeremiah Gryczka & Andrew Sevigny – Mountain House Media, Film Editors Jessica Kaufman, Michelle Martorell, Katey Padden, Courtney Morton – Office of Communications Helen Smith, Lou Chitty, John Truebger, Gregory Thompson, Philip Milman – Technology & Media Production The Red Fern FRIENDS OF EASTMAN OPERA DONOR LIST The Friends of Eastman Opera gratefully recognizes and deeply appreciates the generosity of the following donors whose contributions benefit students, programs and productions of the Eastman Voice, Opera and Vocal Coaching Department. This listing includes gifts received and recorded for the past twelve months, i.e., between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020. Luminary $1,000 and above Dr. Philip S. Nash `73 Dr. Jody C. Asbury `94W (EdD) and Dr. Suzanne B. Seipel and Donald Seipel Robert F. Asbury `79M (Flw) Dr. A. Louise Trucks `92E (PhD) and Dr. Dr. Gloria J. Baciewicz `74, `82M (Res) H. Kenneth Cohen `74 (PhD) Jeffrey T. 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