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| Christopher Burchett (prone) with Jennifer Feinstein, Jonathan Blalock and Caroline Worra |
One of our few regrets in putting together the Barihunks calendar is that we occasionally run out of room to include each and every singer. Such was the case with barihunk Christopher Burchett, but fortunately we have a bunch of pictures from his appearance in composer Jeff Myers and librettist Quincy Long's
Buried Alive, which opens today and will be performed again on March 30th at the Fargo Moorhead Opera.
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| Christopher Burchett in Buried Alive |
Buried Alive was written
specifically for Burchett, and he has been with the project since the first
workshops with the American Lyric Theater in 2010. The opera is part of a partnership between the Fargo Moorhead Opera and American Lyric Theater for the Poe Project Double Bill, which will be the first operatic world premieres in Fargo.
American Lyric Theater asked composer/librettist teams to
create contemporary opera thrillers inspired by the fiction of Edgar
Allan Poe. The operas are not simply adaptations of Poe stories. The
composer/librettist teams were asked, “What might Poe write if he were
alive
today?”
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| Christopher Burchett in Buried Alive |
Buried Alive draws on themes of anxiety and mortality from Poe’s story “The
Premature Burial,” as a painter’s nightmares of death start to become
real. The opera is directed by Lawrence Edelson,
the producing artistic director of the American Lyric Theater.
The second opera is composer Patrick Soluri and librettist Deborah Brevoort's
Embedded. The opera is wittily inspired by Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” as a TV news anchor finds herself on the other side of the headlines. The opera is directed by Sam Helfrich, whose recent work includes productions for Glimmerglass Festival, Virginia Opera, and the Spoleto Festival/USA
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| Christopher Burchett in Buried Alive |
In addition to Burchett, the operas feature a cast of five more of the country’s leading singers, who take on different roles in each opera: soprano Caroline Worra, soprano Sara Gartland, mezzo soprano Jennifer Feinstein, tenor Jonathan Blalock and bass Nathan Stark.
For tickets or additional information, visit the Fargo Moorhead Opera
website.
