{"id":24382,"date":"2006-10-25T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T20:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=24382"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:09:54","slug":"drama-comedy-on-tap-for-nau-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/drama-comedy-on-tap-for-nau-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama, comedy on tap for NAU Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU Opera will channel Gian Carlo Menotti&#8217;s<em>\u00a0The Medium<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Old Maid<\/em><em>and the Thief\u00a0<\/em>beginning at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 and 2 p.m. Nov. 5 in Ardrey Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket prices range from $5 to $10 and are available by calling (928) 523-5661. The NAU Opera production will be staged with two pianos for\u00a0<em>The Medium<\/em>\u00a0and one piano for\u00a0<em>The Old Maid and the Thief<\/em>. A 45-minute lecture will be given by NAU Opera director\u00a0<strong>Nando Schellen<\/strong>\u00a0before each performance.<\/p>\n<p>Guest artist Scott Voyles, former conductor of the International Ensemble Modern Academy at the Klangspuren Festspiele 2006 in Austria, will conduct the two operas.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty vocal performance majors will be featured in the performances. &#8220;We have amazing talent,&#8221; Schellen said. &#8220;The School of Music&#8217;s voice division has been growing immensely in the last seven to eight years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Menotti is considered the most popular American opera composer alive. &#8220;Menotti&#8217;s music is easy to understand, it is easily accessible,&#8221; Schellen said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Medium<\/em>, adapted into a film noir after it premiered in 1946, is a story of s\u00e9ances and cheating. Menotti originally scripted\u00a0<em>The Old Maid and the Thief\u00a0<\/em>for radio in 1939. It was Menotti&#8217;s first opera written in English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an ironic comedy of two women who are in dire need of a man,&#8221; Schellen said. &#8220;When they finally find one, they go strange ways in order to keep him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having been written for radio,<em>\u00a0The Old Maid and the Thief\u00a0<\/em>presents special challenges and a creative acting approach for a live performance. &#8220;Despite the challenges, the students have been enjoying themselves immensely,&#8221; Schellen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/drama-comedy-on-tap-for-nau-opera\/\">NAU Opera will channel Gian Carlo Menotti&#8217;s\u00a0The Medium\u00a0and\u00a0The Old Maidand the Thief\u00a0beginning at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 and 2 p.m. Nov. 5 in Ardrey Auditorium. Ticket prices range from $5 to $10 and are available by calling (928) 523-5661. The NAU Opera production will be staged with two pianos for\u00a0The Medium\u00a0and one piano for\u00a0The Old&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}