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.