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BON APPETIT Public Performance (Adult)  Lee Hoiby's delicious opera Bon Appétit! is a portable one-woman opera transcribed from a classic Julia Child television broadcast. In this "episode" we find the master chef teaching the makings of a classic French chocolate cake as only she can. Hoiby's lively score illuminates Child's words & witticisms and takes listeners on a musical journey to match the culinary adventure unfolding before their eyes. Spectators who rarely find their way to an opera house will be surprised and delighted by a fully sung production with familiar musical themes and a hilarious, feverishly whisking chef who creates a masterpiece with flour flying and egg-beaters racing. After all, "chocolate is much more complicated than any of us suspect."
During the 20-minute performance, mezzo-soprano Melissa Collom channels Child's energy and enthusiasm to prepare "Le Gateau au Chocolate l'Eminence Brune." Just as in a cooking show on TV, the cake is prepared from real ingredients as the piece is sung. This tasty opera morsel is a perfect treat for showers, trade shows, luncheons, reunions or house-warming parties. Enjoy opera where you least expect it! Mezzo-soprano Melissa Collom enjoys performing a wide variety of opera's sassy little ladies. Recent performances have included Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte (Seattle Opera), Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Nights Dream (Central City Opera) and Pitti-Sing in The Mikado (New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players). A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music, her interest in new music has led to a recording of new chamber works with New York's Anti-Social Music and as Julia Child in Lee Hoiby's Bon Appétit! at the inaugural performance of Greensburg American Opera.To hear selections from Bon Appétit! performed by Melissa, visit: http://www.popupopera.com/appetit.php Participant limit: unlimited Performance length: 20 minutes Requirements: a performance space of at least 8ft x 13ft, tuned piano or amplification system for full-size electric piano, a worktable or countertop (at least 30in x 56in) with one working burner and an electrical outlet for kitchen mixer. For fee information or to book a performance, please call Christina Farrell at 724-972-1031 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . |
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