San Francisco Cabaret Opera

June 2010

SEASON X
Fresh Voices X Festival of New Works

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera celebrates its 10th Annual Fresh Voices Festival of New Works 2010 with four evenings of real-life stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive (America) and dark re-creations of old tales with new twists (Europe and Beyond).

Ten fully-staged short operas will Xplore: an erotic transformation in Hungary; starving artists in a sideshow in Czechoslovakia; a pioneer woman in Nebraska driven mad by loneliness; an Xpresident disintegrating in America. And more!

X at the Heart of America
Stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive.

X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
Dark re-creations of old tales with new twists.

Featuring Hadley McCarroll and Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

Program A (Thursday, June 17, 8:00 pm & Saturday, June 19, 8:00 pm)
X at the Heart of America:
Featuring the WORLD PREMIERE of Trifles*, John G. Bilotta / John F. McGrew
Michael Desnoyers, Alexandra Jerinic, Nathan Kondrat, Nathaniel Marken, Maria Mikheyenko
George Bush, Chris Whittaker
Meghan Dibble, Chelsea Hollow, Nathaniel Marken
Life is Fine, Edward Knight / Langston Hughes
Raina Simons
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
The Bloody Chamber, Daniel Felsenfeld/Elizabeth Isadora Gold, adapted from the novella by Angela Carter
Nanette McGuinness, Jo Vincent Parks, Indre Viskontas
Job: A Masque, Mark Alburger
Kate Bautch, Sarita Cannon, Heather Lauren Klein, Nanette McGuinness, Crystal Philippi, Marilyn Pratt

*"Trifles" is sponsored in part through Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum.

Program B (Friday, June 18, 8:00 pm & Sunday, June 20, 7:00 pm)
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
The Hunger Art, Jeff Myers / Royce Vavrek
Joshua Beld, Meghan Dibble, Justin Marsh, Eliza O’Malley, Sophia Santulli
Medea Alone, David Garner
Kristen Brown
Theresa Kren, Mark Narins
Katherine Howell, Tristan Robben
X at the Heart of America
Letter from Linda, Alden Jenks / Frank Polite
Indre Viskontas, Sarita Cannon
Sutter Creek, Robert Denham
Kate Bautch, Sarita Cannon, Heather Lauren Klein, Wayne Wong

One Weekend Only: June 17-20, 2010
Thursday, June 17 – 8 PM (Program A)
Friday, June 18 – 8 PM (Program B)
Saturday, June 19 – 8 PM (Program A)
Sunday, June 20 – 7 PM (Program B)

Live Oak Theatre, 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
Sorry no cabaret tables available at this location.

Tickets
Advance tickets sales: $20 general admission/$15 seniors/students/TBA
Tickets at door: $25 general admission/$20 seniors/students

Reserve your tickets online or by calling 415-289-6877 or email

The Cast

“Living up to its name, the Fresh Voices Festival presented a truly amazing selection of new works by San Francisco Bay Area composers and librettists.... Not only is the concept great but so is the quality of musicianship in both the vocal and ensemble performance. Artistic director Harriet March Page and musical director Mark Alburger, tireless champions of new music, demonstrated an energy and vision that was truly astounding. . . .Goat Hall Productions with its innovative programs is proving to be an essential part of the music scene of San Francisco.” -- William Susman, 20th-Century Music

“. . . .I hope that such enjoyable musical theater will eventually find its way even further throughout the region. I’m sure I speak for all the audience when I say I didn’t want it to end!” -- Allan Crossman