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La Cieca is delighted to note that that ragtag band of misfits known as the Vertical Player Repertory will return to their non-traditional performing venue, the Red Hook Marine Terminal, for a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, weekend evenings at 8 pm September 5-21.
Following up on last season’s successful staging of Puccini’s Il tabarro (“exhilarating,” gasped Brian Kellow in Opera News), this production of the Offenbach classic will be set “in the open air, dockside, surrounded by a panorama of gantry cranes, the lumber port, passing vessel traffic and a spectacular view of Governor’s Island and the Lower Manhattan skyline. ”
Ticket information and (be sure to check this!) instructions for traveling to the Red Hook Marine Terminal may be found at smarttix.com.
I didn’t know this company existed. Can someone give us more details?
want more info? Go to there web site. http://www.vpropera.org/
They did Il Tabarro last year in the same location. It’s about making opera happen in Brooklyn. For a decade, they have operated out of a theater that seats 40, doing everything from Idemeneo to Jenufa to Darius Milhaud’s Medee. The change of venue from small black-box theater to Brooklyn waterfront is a huge leap.
They are hard to pin down conceptually. They do somethings very traditionally (like their Cavalleria) and other things in a very avant garde way (like Hilhaud’s Medee).
But regardless of the production style, they use excellent singers. Worth hearing.