Company photo from our 2014 production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. From left to right: Howard Zogott (Stage Director/Narrator), Peter David (L'Imperial Commissario), Dorian Payton Hall (Il Bonzo/Yamadori), Fran Bjorneby Kraemer (Suzuki), Eve Edwards (Cio-Cio San), Edward Bogusz (Sharpless), Trouble (Carter Willis), Anthony Daino (Pinkerton), Christopher Hodson (Goro), Michelle Joy Schulman (Kate Pinkerton), and Joseph Krupa (Musical Director)
Excerpt of The Times of Chester County's April 10, 2015 "What To Do" column written by Denny Dyroff (for complete article, click here):
On April 12, Delphi Opera will present Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece “La Traviata” at Padua Academy’s Roberto Hall (905 North Broom Street Wilmington, Delaware, 302-384-8075, http://www.delphiopera.com).
“The Delphi Opera is sponsored by the Wilmington Friends of Italian Culture,” said founder Eve Edwards during a phone interview this week.”Two years ago, we produced our first opera. We did ‘La boheme’ in 2013 and ‘Madame Butterfly’ last year.
Eve Edwards of the Delphi Opera.
“We want to educate audiences about opera. The show this Sunday will have narration, super titles, a pre-opera mini-talk about the composer and a Q-and-A session after the performance. It’s a high quality performance with wonderful singers and musicians.
“It can be very difficult for audiences unfamiliar with opera to listen to a two-and-a-half hour performance. We’re doing all three acts but are judiciously cutting a few things. We cut some of the large-scale choruses and other reiterations. But, all the story line is in and all the action is in.”
“La Traviata” It is based on “La dame aux Camélias” (“The Lady of the Camelias”), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
“It’s a very accessible story,” said Edwards. “Violetta Valéry is a courtesan. She gets introduced to a young man who is truly in love with her so she decides to live with him. Then, his father tells her to leave. She goes back to her old life as a courtesan and begins living with a baron. Another factor is that she has consumption (tuberculosis) and is dying.”
The performance is scheduled for April 12 at 2 p.m. The pre-opera mini-lecture will be held at 1:30 p.m. All tickets are $10.
On April 12, Delphi Opera will present Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece “La Traviata” at Padua Academy’s Roberto Hall (905 North Broom Street Wilmington, Delaware, 302-384-8075, http://www.delphiopera.com).
“The Delphi Opera is sponsored by the Wilmington Friends of Italian Culture,” said founder Eve Edwards during a phone interview this week.”Two years ago, we produced our first opera. We did ‘La boheme’ in 2013 and ‘Madame Butterfly’ last year.
Eve Edwards of the Delphi Opera.
“We want to educate audiences about opera. The show this Sunday will have narration, super titles, a pre-opera mini-talk about the composer and a Q-and-A session after the performance. It’s a high quality performance with wonderful singers and musicians.
“It can be very difficult for audiences unfamiliar with opera to listen to a two-and-a-half hour performance. We’re doing all three acts but are judiciously cutting a few things. We cut some of the large-scale choruses and other reiterations. But, all the story line is in and all the action is in.”
“La Traviata” It is based on “La dame aux Camélias” (“The Lady of the Camelias”), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
“It’s a very accessible story,” said Edwards. “Violetta Valéry is a courtesan. She gets introduced to a young man who is truly in love with her so she decides to live with him. Then, his father tells her to leave. She goes back to her old life as a courtesan and begins living with a baron. Another factor is that she has consumption (tuberculosis) and is dying.”
The performance is scheduled for April 12 at 2 p.m. The pre-opera mini-lecture will be held at 1:30 p.m. All tickets are $10.
Click here to listen to WILM-AM's March 15, 2015 radio preview of our production of La Traviata on the Italian-American Herald show
Click here to listen to WILM-AM's March 31, 2014 radio preview of our production of Madama Butterfly on the Italian-American Herald showck here to listen to WILM-AM's March 15, 2015 radio preview of our production of La Traviata on the Italian-American Herald showClick here to listen to WILM-AM's March 15, 2015 radio preview of our production of La Traviata on the Italian-American Herald show
Click here to listen to WILM-AM's March 31, 2014 radio preview of our production of Madama Butterfly on the Italian-American Herald showck here to listen to WILM-AM's March 15, 2015 radio preview of our production of La Traviata on the Italian-American Herald showClick here to listen to WILM-AM's March 15, 2015 radio preview of our production of La Traviata on the Italian-American Herald show