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Clayton State University Opera
Clayton State University Opera
Eve and Her Daughters: Opera and Women of the Bible
Kurt-Alexander Zeller, director
Friday, March 26, 2010
7:30PM
$10
For Women’s History Month, Clayton State Opera presents an evening of opera focusing on women from the Bible, featuring a cast of Clayton State University students directed by Dr. Kurt-Alexander Zeller and accompanied by an orchestra under the baton of Dr. Shaun Amos. The program will open with Eve’s Odds, an award-winning one-act “musical midrash” on the Garden of Eden story by composer Bruce Trinkley and librettist Jason Charnesky, continue with excerpts of Romantic and Baroque era works by Saint-Saëns and Handel, and conclude with one of the oldest surviving musical dramas of the Western world, the Planctus Mariae, the lament of Mary the mother of Jesus at the foot of the Cross.

Program

Eve and Her Daughers: Opera and Women of the Bible
An anthology show of music drama pices featuring stories about women from the bible.

Bruce TRINKLEY/Jason CHARNESKY Eve's Odds; Camille SAINT-SAENS Samson et Dalila; HANDEL Athalia, Esther; Planctus Mariad (14th-century literugial drama)
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