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TO DAMASCUS
With Walter Braxton's TO DAMASCUS, we're celebrating the Italian Renaissance's discovery of perspective painting and the origins of opera by exploring scale, angle, linearity, depth, dimension, illusion, music, and performance. In our Season of Possibilities, we're rejecting traditional ideas and embedded conventions of historicized Opera so we can make an anti-opera for the 21st century.
Style Weekly described Braxton as "one of Richmond's most prolific composers [who] writes music nobody hears." TO DAMASCUS builds on a range of sources including the bible story of Paul's conversion, August Strindberg's THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, the rivalry between Lorenzo de' Medici's patronage of secular art versus Girolamo Savanarola's bonfire of the vanities and his call for an orthodox religious revival, Thomas Mann's only play FIORENZO, the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the Catholic Mass.
In Firehouse's world premiere production we're asking a series of questions including -- What is opera? Who is August Strindberg? Where is Inferno? How is Gerard Manley Hopkins? Why is Fiorenza? What is Existence? Who is Thomas Mann? Where is Non-Existence? Why is Performance? What is Fiction? Who is Girolamo Savonarola? Where is Baggage? How is Music? Why is Singing? What is the Italian Renaissance? Who is Lorenzo de' Medici? Where is Audience? How is Death? Why are You?
Performers Michele Baez Elisabeth Dowdy Michael David Gray Chase Peak Imani Thaniel
Musicians Flute: Susan Davis Oboe: Jane Kise Clarinet: Myrick Crampton Bassoon: Anthony Cavanaugh Horn: Roxanne Williams Trumpet: Aaron Bottoms Violin 1: Katharine Wooldridge, Marissa Resmini Violin 2: Heather Ryan, Alanna North Viola: Brenda Johnson, Justin Williams Cello: Ned Haskins, Jacquelin Spears Bass: Ayça Kartari
Production Team Director - Joel Bassin Musical Directors - Leilani Fenick + Michael Knowles Environment Designers - Isabel Layton Lighting Designer - Bill Miller Costume Designer - Kathleen O'Connor Stage Manager - Corrie Yarbrough Assistant Stage Manager - Taylor Rumbley
Performance Schedule: Thu, 1/18 - 7:30pm (preview) Fri, 1/19 - 7:30pm (press opening) Sat, 1/20 - 7:30pm Sun, 1/21 - 4pm Thu, 1/25 - 7:30pm Fri, 1/26 - 7:30pm Sat, 1/27 - 7:30pm
Tickets $15 - $40 804.355.2001
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LocationFirehouse Theatre (View)
1609 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
United States
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Kid Friendly: No |
Dog Friendly: No |
Non-Smoking: Yes! |
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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