At the Opera
Graduate voice students Jonathan Michie, Matthew
Richardson, and Evan Jones from the Eastman School
of Music perform in the Stephen Sondheim musical
Assassins during the Eastman Opera Theatre's spring
2007 season.
The Eastman Opera Theatre's spring 2007 season featured
everyone from Romeo and Juliet-type characters to Lee Harvey
Oswald making appearances on stage.
Graduate voice students from the Eastman School performed
in all of the productions.
February's studio production of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et
les sortilèges (The Child and the Magical Things) made imaginative
use of a small performing space, the Opera Studio on the eighth
floor of the annex building of the Eastman School.
By contrast, the spring opera production, Bellini's I Capuleti e
i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues), filled the Eastman
Theatre stage with both futuristic elements and a flavor of the
Renaissance.
Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins gave voices to presidential
assassins and aspiring assassins such as Lee Harvey Oswald,
John Wilkes Booth, Sara Jane Moore, and others. Two students
also played major behind-the-scenes roles in Assassins. Stephen
Carr '07 was the stage director, and graduate student Christopher
Mokrzewski was the musical director.