CMYK NAXOS Playing Daron Time: HAGEN 2:18:24 (b. 1961) Disc made in Canada. Printed and assembled USA. compact disc prohibited. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this All rights in this sound recording, artwork, texts and translations reserved. Shining Brow 8.669020-21 Libretto by Paul Muldoon AMERICAN OPERA CLASSICS Frank Lloyd Wright . Robert Orth, Baritone Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon’s first, and highly successful, opera is Mamah Cheney . Brenda Harris, Soprano based on the life of the great Louis Sullivan . Robert Frankenberry, Tenor HAGEN: American architect Frank Lloyd ൿ Edwin Cheney . Matthew Curran, Bass-baritone & Wright and Taliesin (Welsh for Ꭿ Catherine Wright . Elaine Valby, Mezzo-soprano ‘Shining Brow’), the home he built 2009 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Maid / Townswoman 3 . Gilda Lyons, Soprano for himself in Wisconsin. Popular with audiences and critics alike, Shining Brow Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus Shining Brow has been hailed as a Chorus Master: L. Brett Scott masterpiece full of fresh ideas, and is Shining Brow Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra frequently performed. ‘Hagen has a gift for the big tune, and he serves up JoAnn Falletta some beauties’ (New York Times). A full track and cast list can be found ‘Its libretto is unusually inventive on pages 2 and 3 of the booklet. HAGEN: and poetic’ (Capital Times). Recorded live at Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York, on 4th and 5th November, 2006 DDD Recording Engineer: Bernd Goettinger Official Shining Brow Website: Mastering Engineer: Robert Schuneman, www.daronhagen.com/brow Arsis Audio, Boston, Massachusetts 8.669020-21 Booklet notes: Daron Hagen and Stephen Wadsworth Publisher: E.C. Schirmer, Boston, Massachusetts www.naxos.com 8.669020-21 Cover photo © Dan Rest: Robert Orth as Frank Lloyd Wright and Barry Busse as Louis Sullivan, from the Chicago Opera Theater 1997 revival, courtesy of COT. NAXOS American flag, folk artist, 1880s..