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Orpheus Euridice
We attended this Longleaf Opera Festival performance in Memorial Hall on the UNC campus in the evening. Drove through a thunderstorm to get there. The performace was wonderful.
It starts in silence as the Doug Verone dancers quietly go through several dance moves in flowing robes over white costumes. On dancer is in an orange dress and surprisingly she is the Soprano. What a beautiful voice - it could have been Kathleen Battle as Libbie suggested but I was thinking of Dawn Upshaw. The male protaganist is a bare footed clarinetist who was equally talented. The piano was used as part of the set as the platofrm it was on got whirled and spun by the Doug Verone dance ensemble. We had a small treat before the opera began. The composer talked to the audience about how he accomplished the writing. It's small theater when the composer sits in your row in the auditorium, Row E.
