Goat Hall Productions/SF Cabaret Opera presents Fresh Voices X Festival of New Operas June 17, 2010

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Presents:

FRESH VOICES X FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS AT LIVE OAK THEATRE, BERKELEY, JUNE 17-20, 2010

X AT THE HEART OF AMERICA / X IN THE SOUL OF EUROPE AND BEYOND

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera celebrates its 10th Annual Fresh Voices Festival of New Works 2010 with four evenings (two programs) of real-life stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive (America) and dark re-creations of old tales with new twists (Europe and Beyond).

Ten fully-staged short operas will Xplore: an erotic transformation in Hungary; starving artists in a sideshow in Czechoslovakia; a pioneer woman in Nebraska driven mad by loneliness; an Xpresident disintegrating in America. And more!

Program A (June 17 and 19, 8pm)
X at the Heart of America
Featuring the WORLD PREMIERE of *Trifles, John G. Bilotta/John F. McGrew
(from the story and play by Susan Glaspell)
George Bush: The Last 100 Days, Chris Whittaker
Life is Fine, Edward Knight/Langston Hughes
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
**The Bloody Chamber, Daniel Felsenfeld/Elizabeth Isadora Gold
Job: a Masque, by Mark Alburger

Program B (June 18, 8 pm and June 20, 7 pm)
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
The Hunger Art, Jeff Myers/Royce Vavrek
Medea Alone, David Garner
Theresa Kren, Mark Narins
X at the Heart of America
Letter from Linda, Alden Jenks/Frank Polite
Sutter Creek, Robert Denham

Reserve tickets online @ www.goathall.org or call 415-289-6877

MORE INFORMATION:

Artistic Director: Harriet March Page
Pianists: Hadley McCarroll, Keisuke Nakagoshi
Stage Directors: Mark Alburger, Meghan Dibble, Ross Halper, Harriet March Page
Conductors: Martha Stoddard, Hadley McCarroll, Keisuke Nakagoshi
Lighting Designer: Delayne Medoff

PLUS:

Twenty-two amazing and brave local professional singers, including Eliza OMalley, Jo Vincent Parks, Indre Viskontas, Raina Simons, Michael Desnoyers, Nathaniel Marken, Maria Mikheyenko, Katherine Howell, Justin Marsh and Meghan Dibble.