Hello everyone! If you are on Facebook and haven’t found us there yet, search for OperaBaltimore (no space) and become a fan. We asked everyone last week when we launched the page what American operas would you like to see performed in Baltimore. We hope to perform an American opera each season and we’d like your input as we begin creating our 5 year plan. Here, as of today, is the tally on what people would like to see:
American Operas to do in Baltimore as of 5/18/2009
Susannah (Floyd) 8
Dead Man Walking (Heggie) 4
The Ghosts of Versailles (Corgliano) 4
Volpone (Musto) 4
A Streetcar Named Desire (Previn) 4
Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) 3
Nixon In China (Adams) 3
Vanessa (Barber) 3
The Consul (Menotti) 3
The Crucible (Ward) 3
Little Women (Adamo) 2
Dr. Atomic (Adams) 2
Elmer Gantry (Aldridge) 2
Of Mice and Men (Floyd) 2
The Tempest (Hoiby) 2
Later The Same Evening (Musto) 2
A Little Night Music (Sondheim) 2
Wurthering Heights (Hermann) 1
The Tender Land (Copland) 1
Jackie O (Daugherty) 1
Postcard From Moracco (Argento) 1
The Boor (Argento) 1
Aspern Papers (Argento) 1
Where Angles Fear To Tread (Weiser) 1
Appamattox (Glass) 1
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) 1
Street Scene (Weill) 1
The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore) 1
The Three Penny Opera (Weill) 1
Margaret Garner (Danielpour) 1
Anthony and Cleopatra (Barber) 1
Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe (Argento) 1
Harvey Milk (Wallace) 1
The Saint of Bleeker Street (Menotti) 1
If you want to weigh in and aren’t on Facebook, please email us and let us know. We want to hear from all of you!
And if you believe in what we are doing and want to support it, take a moment and donate thru PayPal on the SUPPORT US portion of the site. No contribution is too great or too small – please become a part of creating a new way of producing opera in Baltimore.
Laura Lee Everett