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The Rape of Lucretia: week 2 - week 1
L'enfant et les sortilèges & Gianni Schicchi: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Turandot: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
The Italian Girl in Algiers: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Fidelio: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
L'enfant et les sortilèges/Gianni Schicchi - Week Four
Behind-the-Scenes Rehearsal Photos by Katharine Elliott.
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.jpg) .jpg) Mezzo-soprano Lauren McNeese is L’Enfant, the child who learns the perils of mistreating his things. |
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 Bass Jeremy Milner sings the role of the armchair and mezzo-soprano Tammy Coil is the sidechair, who bemoan the way the Child has treated them. |
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 Mezzo-soprano Tammy Coil and baritone Marian Pop perform the enchanting cat duet. . |
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  One of baritone Marian Pop’s many roles is that of the Grandfather Clock.
The intricate costumes designed by Richard St. Clair were meant to capture the essence of each of the characters without being a literal depiction of object. |
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  Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine makes her Opera Company debut as The Fire, who emerges from the fireplace and taunts the Child, mezzo-soprano Lauren McNeese. |
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  Members of the Miro Dance Theatre are the Tree Frogs, who come to life in the lush, larger-than-life garden in L'enfant. The opera features choreography by Miro's Amanda Miller. |
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  Curtis Institute of Music student Thomas Shivone makes his Opera Company debut in Gianni Schicchi as Amantio Di Nicolao, the Notary who comes make changes to Buoso Donati’s will. Next to him is the title character, baritone Mark Stone, who has assumes the role of the already-deceased Donati in order to revise the will as he sees fit. |
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 Gianni Schicchi’s Betto is bass-baritone Stephanos Tsirakoglou in his Opera Company debut. Betto tries to persuade Schicchi to give him the property at Prato when he revises Donati’s will. |
Director Robert B. Driver takes a break from the grueling task
of directing two different operas, Ravel’s L’Enfant and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and relaxes for a few minutes during a break in rehearsal on the set of Gianni Schicchi.  |
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  Gianni Schicchi, baritone Mark Stone, ends the opera in not much more than his underwear, and yet everything has worked out exactly as he planned! |
