  {"id":1052,"date":"2008-11-07T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:49:42","slug":"20081122-opera-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/07\/20081122-opera-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocal and theater students to present 12 short opera scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> &mdash; 91心頭利 voice and theater students will present 12 short scenes and sections of opera from 10 popular productions at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22, in the Main Theatre of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex.<\/p>\n<p>The performance, which is open to the public free of charge, is presented as part of Dr. Jennifer Swanson&rsquo;s opera workshop, a course through which students learn stage deportment, acting and other skills used in working with operatic repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the performances will be offered in collaboration with students from Patrick Carriere&rsquo;s stage directing course. His students will do the stage direction for all 12 scenes, which includes among others:<br>\n&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Weekend in the Country,&rdquo; the Act One Finale of Stephen Sondheim&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Little Night Music,&rdquo;<br>\n&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; three scenes from &ldquo;Die Fledermaus&rdquo; by Johann Strauss Jr., and <br>\n&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; scenes from &ldquo;Magic Flute&rdquo; by Mozart, &ldquo;Hansel and Gretel&rdquo; by Humperdinck and &rdquo;The Mikado&rdquo; by Gilbert and Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>All of the pieces will be sung in English, except for one scene from Beethoven&rsquo;s &ldquo;Fidelio,&rdquo; which will be sung in German, and one piece from Mozart&rsquo;s &ldquo;Don Giovanni,&rdquo; which will be sung in Italian. Swanson chose a variety of scenes to best accommodate her students&rsquo; voices, while also presenting them with appropriate dramatic challenges, including some that will challenge students to stretch their comfort zone a bit.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call the Department of Music at (218) 755-2915.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR YOUR CALENDAR<br>\nNov. 22 <\/strong>&ndash; 7:30 p.m. &ndash; Opera Scenes, short opera selections presented by 91心頭利. Location: Main Theatre of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex, BSU campus: Admission: free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. &mdash; 91心頭利 voice and theater students will present 12 short scenes and sections of opera from 10 popular productions at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22, in the Main Theatre of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. The performance, which is open to the public free of charge, is presented as part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44318,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/44318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}