Menotti's THE MEDIUM
"The Medium" is a two-act, one hour opera by the italian-american composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
It tells a story of Madam Flora/Baba as a fraud communicator with the dead (think Whoopie Goldberg in the film "Ghost"), until this particular seance, whereby she has a true experience of someone (or something) touching her throat. From that moment she continues to become more obsessed with finding out the answer and growing with fear, frustration and anxiety. At the end of the opera she shoots the mute, Toby, thinking that he is the ghost.
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| Design: Ellen Leather |
While this a rarely performed Chamber Opera, it is extremely well composed, compact and dramatic.
A performance in Berlin recently took place at the restaurant P103, Potsdamer Strasse 103, and another is planned for Halloween on Friday 31 October at 22:00. I suggest getting along to see it, as the performance is by donation only, and it is easy enough to have dinner first then enjoy drinks during the performance itself.
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| L. Rose Nolan & R. Elizabeth Baz in THE MEDIUM / Photo: Niko Tourkos |
The opera is sung in English and features an international cast as follows:
Monica - Elizabeth Baz
Madam Flora - Rose Nolan
Mrs Gobineau - Ellen Leather
Mr Gobineau - Oskar Koziolek-Goetz
Mrs Nolan - Alexandra Broneske
Toby - a mute (imagined)
Musical Director - Matthew Toogood
Come along and support these young artists by leaving a donation!!!
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