Four Dialogues & The Husbands are sung in English. Il segreto di Susanna is sung in Italian. This haunting meditation based on William Carpenter’s prose poem, Rain, summons visions of seasons long past in a stunning rumination on widows, tenderly keeping their departed spouses forever present in their hearts.ĭirected by Tara Branham, Love & Secrets sets alight the artifices and trappings of romantic life, blurring past and present, as eternity beckons. The achingly gorgeous harmonies of Tom Cipullo’s The Husbands concludes our intimate triptych, staring mezzo-soprano Ashley Dixon, and baritone Eugene Brancoveanu, and conducted by Christopher James Ray. Irony and whimsy follow in Ned Rorem’s Four Dialogues, based on the poetry of Frank O’Hara, in a classic “guy-meets-girl” tale marking one couple’s journey from love’s first blush to the pangs of its bitter end, poignantly portrayed by soprano Marnie Breckenridge and tenor Carlos Enrique Santelli. In Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna, an innocuous secret threatens a young newly-wed couple’s chances at happiness, in a drawing room comedy of errors in the nineteenth-century Italian opera buffa tradition, featuring soprano Vanessa Becerra and baritone Efraín Solís, and musicians from the Opera San José Orchestra conducted by Joseph Marcheso. But what lies hidden in the heart? Love & Secrets: A Domestic Trilogy, explores, in ways comedic and dramatic, three tales of couples contending with the tumult, joys, and heartache of love. Romance so often conjures images of affectionate gestures grand and small: flowers, chocolates, initials carved in bark.
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