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Violet Fire in Philadelphia

Violet Fire’s first production was mounted in Philadelphia at Temple University’s Tomlinson Theater, to sold-out audiences on February 13-14, 2004. The production, represented a collaboration of Temple faculty and students with the core project collaborators and the Relache Ensemble. The opera was performed by students in the Department of Voice and Opera at Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music, under the supervision of John Douglas, with the Relâche Ensemble playing the instrumental score under the baton of Music Director Thaddeus Squire. The project partnered with the community-arts organization Cosacosa Art at Large to involve students from Philadelphia’s Kenderton School.

This production was supported by the Temple University Provost’s Commission on the Arts, the Five-County Arts Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, and individual donors.
PARTICIPANTS

John Gibson  |  Composer
Miriam Seidel  |  Librettist
Terry O'Reilly  |  Director

Thaddeus Squire  |  Music Director
Sarah Drury & Jen Simmons  |  Media Design
Philip Grosser  |  Choreography
Dan Boylen & Martin Dallago  |  Sets
Anthony Hostetter  |  Lighting Design
Maori Holmes & Heidi Barr  |  Costumes
Jay Wahl  |  Assistant Director
Kim Barrosso  |  Assistant Conductor     

Singers

Kristin Moody  |  Tesla
Sharon Derstine  |  Katharine Johnson
Adam Fry  |  Mark Twain
Julie Snyder  |  White Dove
Rachel Sutliff  |  Margaret Storm
Stephanos Tsirakoglou  |  Reporter
Peri Berman, Colin Dill, Emily Good,  
Michele Jenkins, Denise Ryks  |  Chorus    

Relâche Ensemble

Bob Butryn  |   sax & clarinet
Andrea Clearfield  |  keyboard
John Gaarder  |  bassoon
Michele Kelly  |  flute
Douglas Mapp  |  bass
Harvey Price  |  percussion
Lloyd Shorter  |  oboe
Aliza Appel  |  viola

VIOLET FIRE  an opera about NIkola Tesla

email: violetfireopera@gmail.com
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