Name: Black Horses, The Medium & Johnny Schicchi
Start: 2017-07-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center

Organization

Conductor

Isaac Dae Young

Stage director

Theresa Seri

Pianist

Emilyrose Ristine

Percussionist

Singer

Elizabeth Oliver

Zelda

David Price

Fofo

Soprano

Elizabeth Holmes

Monica

Silent

Josh Gold

Toby

Contralto

Paula Rivera-Dantagnan

Madame Flora (Baba)

Baritone

Mr Gobineau

Cassia Youngeun Lee

Mrs Gobineau

Mezzo-soprano

Emily Byrne

Mrs Nolan

Grant Mech

Gianni Schicchi

Charlea Lyn Grieco

Lauretta

Tenor

Zachary Sigafoes

Rinuccio

Tiffany Nack

Zita

Dan Schauble

Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Bass

Brian McKay

Betto di Signa

Gherardo

Andrea Broido

La Ciesca

Nella

Andrew Shaw

Marco

David Perelman

Simone

Alan Edelstein

Maestro Spinelloccio

Phil Lachenmayer

Pinellino

Henry Parson

Gherardino

Delaware Valley Opera Company

English

Black Horses, The Medium & Johnny Schicchi

Philadelphia

United States

Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center

Public

Black Horses

The Medium

Approved

Black Horses, a new opera by area composer Misha Dutka, is about a team of horses preparing to pull a princess's carriage. The horses reflect that they once lead a pampered life in a princess's stable, until the new motorcars came into fashion with the wealthy, and they were sold to a cargo company. A jarring realization hits them when they meet their former employer in an unexpected way.
The Medium is set in the 1930s, where Babba runs a successful séance scam with her daughter and a stray mute boy. Her reluctant partners are the performers of parlor tricks that keep the customers coming back. But Babba crosses a line - in her conscience? in her psyche? - and soon it is impossible for the woman to tell where the trick ends and the real supernatural begins.
In "Johnny" Schicchi, money-grubbing relatives gather at the bedside of their "dearly departed" uncle in South Philly, eager to learn what he's left them in his will. But the bum left them nothing! All is lost! Unless.... Enter Johnny Schicchi, a crafty neighbor. He has a fool-proof plan.... Except, this is a family of fools!

Black Horses, The Medium & Johnny Schicchi by Dutka, Menotti, Puccini, From (2017/2017), Directed by Theresa Seri,, Conductor Isaac Dae Young, Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center, Philadelphia, United States

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