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SoBe Arts presents
the world premiere of
FAIRY TALES
Songs of the Dandelion Woman
Music by
Carson Kievman
Libretto by C Kievman & MD Needle

with
Meagan Brus, soprano as Dandelion Woman
& Kenneth Mattice, baritone as Bank Examiner

Stage Director Jeffrey Marc Buchman	Music Director Mary Adelyn Kauffman
Costume Designer Camilla Haith	Set Designer Sean McCelland
Projection Designer Alain Lores	Lighting Designer Patrick Tennent

Conductor, Mary Adelyn Kauffman
Flute, Carol Naveira-Nicholson - Clarinet, Miles Jaques
Percussion, Karli Mason & Tyson Voigt - Piano, Junko Kainosho
Violin, Rebecca Mosloff - Viola, Emilee Newell - Cello, Joy Adams

Stage Manager - Jane Rosenbaum

An Original Music-Theater Fairy Tale for Adults

From May 8 through May 18, the Little Stage Theater at SoBe Institute of the Arts became the portal to Fairy Tales, Songs of the Dandelion Woman, a 70-minute trip “down the rabbit hole.”  With a score and libretto created by Carson Kievman, this contemporary music-theater journey hurtles through a kaleidoscopically shifting mental landscape, past the borderline between hilarity and madness, into a surrealistic dislocation.  This parallel world, very much like our own as seen through a magnifying glass, is created as the Bank Examiner (Ken Mattice, baritone) and The Dandelion Woman (Meagan Brus, soprano) become aware of each other: an authority figure who is charged with determining her competence, and a misfit who moves with angular grace through her own private world, and is charismatic enough to dismantle the system simply by living as she pleases.

For this production, soprano Meagan Brus and baritone Kenneth Mattice returned to SoBe Arts to sing the roles of Dandelion Woman and Bank Examiner. Both artists were highly praised for their roles as Ophelia and Hamlet in SoBe Arts world premiere staged concert of the HAMLET Opera in 2012. Aalso engaged were the acclaimed opera director Jeffrey Marc Buchman, music director Mary Adelyn Kauffman, award winning designers, Sean McClelland (sets), Patrick Tennent (lighting), Camilla Haith (costumes), Alain Lores (projections) as well as a top-flight ensemble of instrumentalists. Audiences had the opportunity to see FAIRY TALES in a run of 1 preview and 6 performances from May 8 through May 18 in the Little Stage Theater on the SoBe Arts campus, a beautiful, historic setting and intimate venue . .- Tweet

"In a season that has seen more 20- and 21st-century opera in South Florida than in the last two decades combined, Kievman’s opus is a stunner. It deserves wider performances beyond the current Miami Beach run" - The Miami Herald

Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Thursday, May 8, 2014
Preview
8:00 p.m. – Little Stage Theater

Friday, May 9, 2014
World Premiere
Includes a post-performance VIP champagne celebration sponsored by
Laurent-Perrier (Sarah Halstead) and Sylvano Restaurant (Sylvano Carrara)
8:00 p.m. – Little Stage Theater

May 10 through May 18, 2014
Additional performances

For additional information contact events@sobearts.org or (305) 674-9220
Box Office opens 1 hour before all performances

 

Meagan Brus as Dandelion Woman and Kennth Mattice as Bank Examiner (photo credit: David Ramos)

Kennth Mattice as Bank Examiner (photo credit: David Ramos)

 

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