Brooklyn Repertory Opera

Brooklyn Repertory Opera

The Brooklyn Repertory Opera is a Park Slope, Brooklyn-based opera company founded in 2006 by artistic director Kathleen Keske and executive director Brett Wynkoop. The company formed to continue producing a new opera, "A.F.R.A.I.D.", based upon the life of Fanny Fern by composer/librettist Susan Stoderl, which had a successful run in the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival.

The opera was performed in a former bathhouse, and landmark building, known as the Brooklyn Lyceum, Tuesday evenings at 7:30 from March-December 2006. Beginning in June of 2007, the company began performing public domain works from the standard repertoire: "Così fan tutte", "Fidelio", "Cavalleria rusticana", "Hänsel und Gretel", and "Le Nozze di Figaro", all in English translations for the purpose of making opera accessible to a wider audience.

Conductors who have worked with Brooklyn Repertory Opera are Hardin Butcher, Stephen Francis Vasta, Conrad Chu, Yoon Jae Lee, Jennifer Peterson, and Roger Malouf. Beginning with the production of "Hänsel und Gretel", the company added a dance mistress, Mary Silverstein, a member of the vocal chorus for several previous productions.

Among the singers who have performed multiple times with the company are Kathleen Keske, Francis Liska, Pamela Scanlon, Jay Gould, Marcella Caprario, Tamara Cashour, Barret Cobb, Mary Jane Dingledy, Elizabeth Eiel, Ivy Frenkel, Courtenay Schowalter, Allison Atteberry, Shannon Elizabeth Hunt, Jocelyne O'Toole, Matthew Yohn, Eric Jorgenson, Jonathan Ichikawa, Ilberto Lagana, Dwight Hill, Karmen Kluge, Stefanie Izzo, Scott Andrew Hutchins, and Jason Kim.

A skilled cartoonist, Francis Liska draws the advertising artwork for the company.

External links

* [http://www.bropera.org Brooklyn Repertory Opera Website]


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