Orfeo ed Euridice
A partnership with Mannes Sounds
Composer - Christoph Willibald Gluck
Librettist - by Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Conductor - Richard Owen
Director -
Bill Gustafson
Musical preparation - Ted Taylor
St. Jean Baptiste Church
- 184 East 76th Street, New York City
October 17 and 19, 2019
The Turn of the Screw
Composer - Benjamin Britten
Librettist - Myfanwy Piper
Conductor - Daniela Candillari
Director - Kate Whoriskey
Choreographer - Jeffery L. Page
Musical preparation - Susan Caldwell
The Gerald Lynch Theater - 524 West 59th Street,
New York City
December 7 and 8, 2019
The Art of Change
Composer - Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Co-creators and collaborators
Director - Ashley Tata
Ernst C. Stiefel Concert Hall - 55 West 13th Street, New York City
January 16, 17, 18, and 21, 2020
Sandbox - Bohème
Composer - Giacomo Puccini
Librettist - Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Director - Ethan Heard
Music director - Ian Axtell
Musical preparation - Susan Woodruff Versage
Ernst C. Stiefel Concert Hall - 55 West 13th Street, New
York City
February 7 and 8, 2020
The Mannes Opera Sandbox is an annual project that is exploratory and process based. It changes every year, depending on the needs of our students - but is always focused on exploration and rehearsal as a creative process. This year, we are
focusing on La Bohème and asking our six young artists to approach these roles as deeply personal portrayals.
Suor Dafne
Suor Angelica
Composer - Giacomo Puccini
Librettist - Giovacchino Forzano
La Dafne
Composer - Marco da Gagliano
Librettist - Ottavio Rinuccini
Conductor - Geoff McDonald
Director - Emma Griffin
Suor Dafne performances were cancelled due to COVID-19.
Suor Dafne takes two operas separated by 300 years (1608 and 1918) and weaves them together - along with American spirituals and modern pop songs - to create a singular musical event. This is in keeping with Mannes Opera’s mission to present classical repertoire in new ways, embracing innovation even as we engage with music hundreds of years old. The themes of desire, rejection, despair, and spiritual longing reverberate through all of this music - we are pulling these threads together to create a sonically rich and dramatically vivid portrait of young women in extreme situations.