KCME Classical Music Showcase presents the Santa Fe Opera

The musical pieces you will hear are Opera and Broadway favorites and include works by

Berlin, Mozart, and Rossini

Duration: One act, 35 minutes in length

Original Story Acushla Bastible and Charles Gamble with Kirt Pavitt

Story Adaptation: Kathleen Clawson, Kirt Pavitt, and Andrea Fellows Walters

Characters: Melody Abigail Mitchell, Soprano & Webster Shea Owens, Baritone

Melody is a composer with writer's block

Webster is at various times her muse, foil, and lover

Melody is at work writing an opera and has reached a standstill. Webster appears and

announces that he – and only he – with his gift for language, can help Melody. Melody

initially brushes him off, finding him a distraction. Webster is not so easily deterred.

They bicker and banter about which is more important in opera—the words or the

music—and begin to fall in love.

The piece is intended to be a dramatic journey incorporating musical works that are

familiar to all. Most of the works will be sung in English, however in choosing and

setting the music every attempt has been made to honor the original intention of the

piece.

Featured Works include passages from:

Vocalise – Sergei Rachmaninoff’

Largo al factotum, The Barber of Seville – Gioacchino Rossini

Cat Duet – Gioacchino Rossini

Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, Annie Get Your Gun – Irving Berlin

The Bird Catcher or ‘Word’ Catcher, Magic Flute – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Lean Away – Gene Scheer

Tongue Twister – Jeremy Nicholas

Je Veux Vivre, Romeo and Juliet – Charles Gounod

Deh Vieni Alla Finestra, Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Crazy World, Victor/Victoria – Henry Mancini

Were I To Touch You – Ben Moore

La Ci Darem La Mano, Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart