Last Chance to Apply for the Parsons/Mannes Opera Collab for Spring ’15!
Interested in working on a collaboratively designed and produced opera? All Parsons undergraduates and graduate students are invited to apply to the Parsons/ Mannes Opera Collaboration for the Spring 2015 semester! Deadline: Dec. 15th
Mannes Opera – Parsons Collaboration – PSDS 5704 (CRN 6382)/ Thursdays 12:10 pm – 5:50 pm
Registration is by application only
This spring, Mannes and Parsons students will present the comic opera “Flight” (info below), with performances on in May.
We’re looking for individuals interested in one of more of the following:
- theatrical productions
- costume design
- styling
- hair and makeup
- set design
- lighting design
- prop construction and management
This 3-credit collaborative class will be taught by two Parsons professors and will meet on Thursdays from 12:10 pm – 5:50 pm. Classes will be held mainly at Parsons, but will occasionally meet at a set/prop design studio in Red Hook for larger fabrication projects midway through the semester. Grading for this course will asses participation, investment in the overall project, and conception/production of required deliverables, leading to a great performance!
About Flight:
“Flight is that rarest thing, a popular new comic opera… Dove’s music flies, the opera is fun, and people are going to love it.”Tom Sutcliffe | The Evening Standard
Jonathan Dove’s breakthrough work, Flight, was commissioned by Glyndebourne and premiered there in 1998 with further performances in 1999 and 2005. The question from the then General Director, Anthony Whitworth-Jones, was whether Jonathan Dove could create ‘A Marriage of Figaro for the 1990s’. And the answer was a superb original modern-day operatic comedy which has found universal popularity, with many different productions and over 85 performances to date across the world.
With a libretto by leading British playwright April de Angelis, the opera has both laugh-out-loud and more serious moments as the story of the refugee who lives in the airport – inspired by the true-life story of an Iranian refugee who lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, for 18 years – unfolds around the different characters who find themselves delayed in the terminal.
Written for an ensemble cast of 10 singers, this opera, with its dynamic airport setting and scintillating orchestral writing – including the thrilling aeroplane take-off – continues to have a compelling immediacy.
