Arminio in Armenia: a faux opera seria June 2012
The Vertical Player Repertory IN THE WORKS Series
Workshop Performance of Opera Feroce’s opera in progress
Music of Nicola Porpora
Libretto by A. Sconosciuto (Based on “Las Sagradas Cruzadas del Héroe Arminio” by Léon d’Astorga)
Friday, June 8th 2012, 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 9th 2012, 7:30 PM
Christ Church Cobble Hill
326 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, New York
Arminio in Armenia, a new faux opera seria, is set to the music of the baroque composer Nicola Porpora. The original story and recitatives are written by an anonymous member of Opera Feroce. Arminio in Armenia recounts the misadventures of the Crusader Arminio, who receives a commission from Pope Urban VIII to convert the Armenian Infidels to Catholicism. En route, he nearly perishes in a tempest and washes up on the shore of Massachusetts, where he determines to wreak conversion upon the Pilgrim heretics instead.
Arminio & Genovinda: Hayden DeWitt
Tusnelda & Clorofilla: Beth Anne Hatton
Norberto & Adalberto: Alan Dornak
Vita Wallace, Violin
Kelly Savage, Harpsichord
Motomi Igarashi, Viola da Gamba