Name: The Ballad of Baby Doe
Start: 2014-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-07-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Norton Hall

Organization

Chautauqua Opera Festival

Chanteur

Baryton

Mark Delavan

Horace Tabor

Soprano

Cree Carrico

Elizabeth Doe

Mezzo-soprano

Leann Sandel-Pantaleo

Augusta Tabor

Contralto

Raehann Bryce-Davis

Mama McCourt

Baryton-basse

David Crawford

William Jennings Bryan

Ténor

Jesse Darden

Father Chapelle

Andrew Lunsford

President Chester Arthur

Direction d'orchestre

Steven Osgood

Mise en scène

Jay Lesenger

Décors

Erhard Rom

Costumes

BG FitzGerald

Lumières

Michael Baumgarten

Chorégraphie

Teddy Kern

Orchestra

Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

Others

Chautauqua Opera Young Artists

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The Ballad of Baby Doe

Chautauqua

États-Unis

Norton Hall

The Ballad of Baby Doe Moore,D

Public

Valide

The Ballad of Baby Doe is an opera by the American composer Douglas Moore that uses an English-language libretto by John Latouche. It is Moore's most famous opera and one of the few American operas to be in the standard repertory. Especially famous are the title heroine's five arias: "Letter Aria," "Willow Song," "I Knew it Was Wrong", "Gold is a Fine Thing", and "Always Through the Changing." Horace Tabor's "Warm as the Autumn Light" is also frequently heard. Distinguished sopranos who have portrayed Baby Doe include Beverly Sills (Moore's favorite interpreter of the role), Karan Armstrong, Faith Esham, and Elizabeth Futral.

The opera's premiere took place at the Central City Opera in Colorado in 1956. Hanya Holm and Edwin Levy directed the production, and sopranos Dolores Wilson and Leyna Gabriele alternated in the title role. The opera's New York premiere, directed by Vladimir Rosing, was presented at the New York City Opera in 1958 in a revised version which added the gambling scene in Act 2 and an additional aria for Baby Doe. At the time, further revisions were being considered, but these were abandoned upon the sudden death of Latouche.

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