Opera Ballymore Winners programs

RIDER UNIVERSITY

Westminster Choir College

Ballymore: Winners

BY RICHARD WARGO (with excerpts from Brian Friel’s Lovers: Winners)

Westminster Opera Theatre

Susan Shiplett Ashbaker, director

Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Bart Luedeke Center Theater Rider University Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Ballymore: Winners Music by Richard Wargo Libretto by Richard Wargo (with excerpts from Brian Friel’s Lovers: Winners) Susan Shiplett Ashbaker, conductor Dorothy Danner, stage director

Please join the directors and cast for a talk-back after each performance.

Westminster College of the Arts WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE

PLEASE NOTE The unauthorized use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

Out of courtesy to the performers and everyone in the audience, please refrain from using cell phones and electronic devices during the performance.

Westminster College of the Arts gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Herbert B. Mayo Performance Endowment.

Program Notes COMPOSER’S NOTES Reflections on Ballymore: Winners by composer Richard Wargo I’ve always composed very slowly, so I’m used to projects that take a good deal of time to reach completion. But the creation of Ballymore was an especially long journey that began when I was 17 years old and a junior at Scranton Central High School. The drama club had just returned from the State Championship and presented for the school assembly their first-place entry, a performance of the play Winners by Irish playwright Brian Friel. I became totally enthralled as this simple story of a summer morning idyll of two young lovers unfolded. Little did I suspect, though, that this play would continue to haunt me for years to come. Several times over the next decade I’d reread the play with the thought of composing a musical adaptation. Each time, I’d put the play aside, daunted by the prospect of setting so many pages of dialogue to music. Finally, though, on another reading of the play in 1986, as musical forms and song areas began to suggest themselves to me, I decided to write to Brian Friel and request his permission to compose an opera based upon his play. After several letters exchanged back and forth, the time arrived for a face-to-face meeting with the reclusive playwright.

As I traveled north to the very tip of Ireland to meet with Brian Friel, I was anxious to make a good impression. I suspect Mr. Friel was attempting to do the same and had waiting for me on my arrival a large silver carafe of coffee. My being from America, he assumed that this would be my beverage of choice. But to this day, I have yet to even try a cup and I didn’t want to attempt to disguise my inexperience. So, Mr. Friel drank the coffee and his wife Anne went to the kitchen to brew a pot of Irish tea for me.

From that moment on, the ice suitably broken, I felt confident that Mr. Friel and I would get along just fine.

I left the meeting agreeing to send the playwright a sample song from the score. Within a few months I sent Mr. Friel a cassette recording of Joe’s aria, “Sleep, Mag” which he found “attractive.” I also sent him a working draft of the Winners libretto. I think Mr. Friel was surprised at how closely the text to my proposed opera followed the dialogue in the play. “It’s very close to the original,” he commented. “Is that a virtue?”

As work on the music and libretto continued over the years, Mr. Friel followed the progress on the piece with bemused interest. He was unable to attend the Milwaukee premiere of Ballymore in 1999. But he did send us opening night greetings invoking St. Philomena (the subject of Part Two, Losers) and Saint Cecelia (the Patron Saint of Music) to grant us a successful first night performance.

I often wondered how Brian Friel would react on seeing his play Lovers translated into the language of music. The answer came in the summer of 2000 after Mr. Friel viewed a video copy of the PBS telecast of Ballymore.

He sent me a copy of the play Lovers and inscribed it: “To Richard, who recreated this material with his own unique artistry.” He also enclosed a letter, which read: “I am ignorant in these matters, but I felt you were simultaneously faithful to the original material and yet altogether free of it.

And what you did was altogether your own and wonderfully accomplished and distinctly creative. Well, well done!”

It’s been both humbling and gratifying to work with the words of one of the great writers of the English language and it’s been a long journey from Scranton Central High School to Greencastle, Ireland to this production here today at Westminster Choir College. It’s always a pleasure to rediscover Mag and Joe anew in the voices and the imaginations of young singers. Thank you for inviting me here to be a part of this new production of Winners.

– Richard Wargo DIRECTOR’S NOTE Westminster Opera Theatre has gifted me with a truly unique experience after my many years in the theatre. Directing a play plus an opera on which it is based has proven to be a fascinating, valuable, and revealing process.

Finding the physicalizations and timings for the characters when they are singing extended passages in the opera is very different from the freedom the actors experience when they are exploring dialogue. The composer and conductor dictate the expansiveness of the opera, and the singers must inhabit that music while revealing as much as possible about their characters and dramatic intentions. The actors, with the director, create their own timing for the text.

Our composer, Richard Wargo, has a profound respect and knowledge of everything Irish and brings soaring melodies and deep humanity to the brilliant writing of Brian Friel. I have had the good fortune to work at Richard Wargo’s side from workshops through openings of five of his operas plus workshops for his future operas. They all are rooted in his love for Irish writing and Chekhov, to whom Brian Friel is often compared.

I do hope that other universities will follow suit because the greatest joy of this rehearsal period has been observing the young singers and actors deepen their understanding of each other’s craft while they are expanding their own world.

– Dorothy Danner

ABOUT BRIAN FRIEL Brian Friel was born in Northern Ireland in County Tyrone in 1929. He is considered one of the greatest English-language dramatists, the first Northern Irish Catholic to gain such distinction as a playwright. He is often called the Irish Chekhov. His works include 24 plays, two volumes of short stories and five radio plays. Nominated for “Best Play” for Philadelphia, Here I come!, and Lovers, he was the award winner for Dancing at Lughnasa.

Plot Synopsis/Acts Time: June 1966 Setting: A hillside overlooking the town of Ballymore in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland Ballymore: Winners depicts the last day on earth of two young lovers, destined to die by day’s end in a boating accident. The audience learns gradually of the young couple’s fate through the narrative of two balladsingers—and life, in the presence of death, appears all the more precious and fleeting.

Winners is a comic tragedy. A male and female narrator­—in black, motionless, on highbacked chairs flanking the stage—tell the story of Mag Enright and Joe Brennan, both 17, four weeks before their impending wedding precipitated by her pregnancy. The story begins on a hilltop on a summer morning, with the kids studying for their finals, dreaming about the future, quarreling and making up. That afternoon, they went boating on the lake and drowned. Reading impersonally from quaintly bound manuscripts, the fatidic antiphonal choruses unfurl what happened from the point of view of the bereaved families, the small Irish town and history itself. Meanwhile, on the stage between them, Mag and Joe argue and frolic on their last day on earth. At first, the narration and the events on the stage are synchronous; then the fate-like narration speeds ahead to disappearance, discovery of bodies, inquest, grim aftermath, and the world’s final oblivion. But onstage, the young pair is still loving and cavorting about.

The contrapuntal discrepancy develops into thrilling dramatic tension—a splendid stage metaphor. It suggests the interweaving of joy and horror in every strand of life; it embodies the clash between how the lovers see themselves and how they must appear—and disappear—under the aspect of eternity. It conveys the double time we live in. For these lovers there is only the passionate now, which becomes their eternity. For the rest, there is slow transience, nibbling at everything, even grief.

– Commentary of Brian Friel’s play Winners by Theater critic John Simon

Program Lovers: Winners (play excerpts) PLAY CAST MC Mag

Richard Wargo Claire Fritz

Joe

Damon Vincenty

Woman

Jenna Sims

Man

Benjamin Simonetty

Ballymore: Winners (Opera) »

Prologue - The Green Glens of Tyrone

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Ardnagheeha

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Ballymore

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The Best Flat in Town

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Parents

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Just Think

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Ardnagheehe (reprise)

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Two Months Pregnant

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Lough Gorm

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Sleep, Mag

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Lough Gorm (part 2)

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Proposal

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Separate Rooms

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Off the North Shore

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F-F-F-Father Kelly

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Post-Mortem

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Requiem “The White Birds”

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Something Crazy!

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Epilogue – The Green Glens of Tyrone

OPERA CAST FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Mag Joe Ballad Singer Ballad Singer SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Mag Joe Ballad Singer Ballad Singer INTERNS Joe Mag ARTISTIC STAFF AND CREW Set Designer & Technical Director Costume & Make-up Designer Lighting Designer Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager 1 Rehearsal Pianist Supertitles created collaboratively by Supertitle Operator ORCHESTRA Violin Cello Synthesizer Uilleann Pipes (recorded) Piano

Isabelle Schelbaum Jacob Keleman Kathryn Corbino Jenna Sims Sienna Grinwald-Alves Jacob Keleman Lillie Judge Emily DeMerchant Joseph Cocozziello & Damon Vincenty Claire Fritz Buck Linton Jim Parks Shawn Jobin John Roca Emily Peruk Nicholas Franki Nikolay Verevkin Joe Cocozziello, Isabelle Schelbaum, Lillie Judge, Jenna Sims Damon Vincenty Janey Choi Mark Kosmala Julia Hanna Bill Ochs Nikolay Verevkin

SPECIAL THANKS A special thank you to Harry Danner for his inspired coaching of the actors in the play. Thank you to Nathan Hurwitz for providing the synthesizer. A special thanks also to all the wonderful and supportive voice teachers who provide the base of learning for all we do, as well as our colleagues in the Music Theatre and Dance departments.

About the Cast JOSEPH COCOZZIELLO (Joe – Opera Intern) tenor: first-year Master of Music student (studies with Margaret Cusack). Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y. Past Engagements: L’Aumônier (Dialogues des Carmélites) with Westminster Opera Theatre; Narcissus (All Wounds Bleed) with Brooklyn Opera Works.

KATHRYN CORBINO (First Ballad Singer – Opera) soprano: second-year Master of Music student (studies with Lauren Athey-Janka).

Hometown: Havertown, Pa. Past Engagements: Gertrude (Hänsel und Gretel) with Westminster Opera Theatre; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) with Westminster Opera Theatre; Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with West Chester University Opera Theatre. Awards: 1st place, Westminster Voice Awards 2021; 2nd place category winner, Eastern Region NATS Festival of Singing 2019.

EMILY DEMERCHANT (Second Ballad Singer – Opera) soprano: first-year Master of Music student (studies with Christopher Arneson).

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Past Engagements: Chorus/ Sandman Intern (Hänsel und Gretel) with Westminster Opera Theatre; Cherubino understudy (Le Nozze di Figaro) with The Western University Opera.

NICHOLAS FRANKI (Assistant Stage Manager) freshman Bachelor of Fine Arts student. Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y. Past Engagements: Spotlight Operator (Pippin), Spotlight Operator (ISM: Cabaret).

CLAIRE FRITZ (Mag – Play/Mag – Opera Intern) soprano: sophomore Bachelor of Music Education student (studies with Lauren Athey-Janka).

Hometown: Elizabethtown, Pa. Past Engagements: Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel) with Westminster Opera Theatre. Future Engagements: Chorus with Westminster Choir. Awards: 4th place, Westminster Voice Awards 2021.

SIENNA GRINWALD-ALVES (Mag – Opera) soprano: sophomore Bachelor of Music student (studies with Christopher Arneson). Hometown: Barnegat, N.J. Past Engagements: Sandman (Hänsel und Gretel), with Westminster Opera Theatre, Junior (O What a Night) PaperMill Playhouse Summer Conservatory, Little Girl (Brain Busters) with National Geographic.

Awards: 1st place, Westminster Voice Awards 2021; 1st place, The Turton Talent Show 2019.

LILLIE JUDGE (First Ballad Singer – Opera) soprano: senior Bachelor of Music student (studies with Sally Wolf). Hometown: Charlotte, N.C. Past Engagements: Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Despina intern (Così fan tutte) with Westminster Opera Theatre; scenes as Michaela (Carmen) with Westminster Opera Workshop. Awards: 2nd Place, Westminster Voice Awards 2021; 1st Place, Westminster Voice Awards 2021.

JACOB KELEMAN (Joe – Opera) tenor: senior Bachelor of Music student (studies with Lauren Athey-Janka). Hometown: Larchmont, N.Y. Past Engagements: Witch (Hänsel und Gretel) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) with Westminster Opera Theatre. Awards: 1st place category winner, New Jersey NATS Festival of Singing 2019; 1st place category winner, Eastern Regional NATS Festival of Singing 2020.

EMILY PARUK (Stage Manager) freshman Bachelor of Fine Arts student. Hometown: Gorham, Maine. Past Engagements: light board operator (ISM: Cabaret).

JOHN ROCA (Production Stage Manager): senior Bachelor of Fine Arts student. Hometown: Warwick, N.Y. Past Engagements: Assistant Stage Manager (Emergence) with American Repertory Ballet; Production Stage Manager (Pippin) with Rider University. Awards: Winner, Kennedy Center’s Certificate of Merit: Excellence as a Stage Management Team 2019.

ISABELLE SCHELBAUM (Mag – Opera) soprano: first-year Master of Music student (studies with Lauren Athey-Janka). Hometown: Princeton, N.J. Past Engagements: Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Westminster Opera Theatre; scenes as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Westminster’s CoOPERAtive program. Future Engagements: Chorus member, Westminster’s Symphonic Choir 2021-2022 season. Awards: 4th place, New Jersey NATS Festival of Singing 2019.

BENJAMIN SIMONETTY (Man – Play) tenor: senior Bachelor of Fine Arts student. Hometown: Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Past Engagements: Mr. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) with Rider University.

JENNA SIMS (Woman – Play/ Second Ballad Singer - Opera) soprano: second-year Master of Music student (studies with Christopher Arneson).

Hometown: Reno, Nev. Past Engagements: Zita (Gianni Schicchi) and Third Spirit (Die Zauberflöte) with Nevada Chamber Opera at the University of Nevada, Reno.

DAMON VINCENTY (Joe – Play/Joe – Opera Intern) tenor: senior Bachelor of Fine Arts student (studies with Carolann Page). Hometown: Westwood, N.J. Past Engagements: Ensemble (Pippin) and Ensemble (Steel Pier) with Rider University.

About the Artistic Staff and Crew SUSAN SHIPLETT ASHBAKER (Conductor), Associate Professor/ Director of Westminster Opera Theatre for Westminster Choir College at Rider University and Director for the CoOPERAtive Program at Westminster, brings over 35 years of experience in the performing arts.

Ms. Ashbaker is active in the opera/vocal world as an independent artistic advisor/consultant, master class presenter, lecturer and opera/vocal coach. Her experience on both sides of the opera industry gives her a rare and comprehensive approach to key elements of career advancement for singers as well as a unique vantage point in the administration of opera companies, arts organizations and institutions of higher learning. She is in demand as a master class presenter, having taught recently at Boston Conservatory, University of Miami, Binghamton University, Seagle Festival, Ithaca College and Rutgers University.

Ms. Ashbaker was affiliated with Tri-Cities Opera for five years; four as general and artistic director, and one as artistic director, and “transformed the company in every way imaginable,” according to the former Board chair. Additionally, Ms. Ashbaker served Opera Company of Philadelphia (OCP) for 16 years, the last 11 as director of artistic and music administration. She led casting practices and reestablished the Company as a pioneer in offering advancements to young singers before they achieved national or international recognition; gave unique opportunities to wellestablished artists; and supervised all activities of the artistic and music departments. Under her direction, OCP established an intern program with the Curtis Institute of Music.

Ms. Ashbaker has worked with New York City Opera, European Center for Opera and Vocal Arts, Israeli Vocal Arts Institute, International Vocal Arts Institute in Montreal, Theater am Goetheplatz (Bremen, Germany), Academy of Vocal Arts, and the Curtis Institute of Music.

A frequent judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and former participant on the MET Quiz Show, Ms. Ashbaker has participated as panelist with Opera America, National Association of Teachers of Singing, New York State Council on the Arts, National

Endowment for the Arts, judge for the Jensen Foundation, Marian Anderson Emerging Artist Competition and the Richard Tucker Foundation Auditions.

DOROTHY DANNER (Director) has directed over 200 productions of operettas, musicals, and plays throughout the U.S., Canada, and Belgium, including staging operas for the companies of Glimmerglass, Houston, Philadelphia, Miami, Cleveland, Minnesota, Cincinnati, Portland, Knasas City, Virginia, and San Francisco Merola. She has also staged premieres of composers Barab, Botti, Garwood, Hamlisch, Hamick, Musgrave, Sirotta, and Wargo. She garnered wide critical acclaim for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Julliard, the PBS television showing of Ballymore, and the Boston Pops’ Tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan. Before turning to directing, Ms. Danner performed in Broadway shows spanning from Once Upon a Mattress to Michael Bennett’s Ballroom and in films including Mel Brook’s The Producers.

Ms. Danner co-founded the Glimmerglass Young Artist Program, has served on the faculties of the Julliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, and Chautauqua Institution, and she has been a frequent guest director at AVA, NYU, Boston University, and Carnegie-Mellon. She was the 2021 recipient of the National Opera Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dorothy Danner is a member of a theatrical family that includes actors, Blythe, Harry, and Hillary Danner, Gwyneth Paltrow, writer-filmmaker Jake Paltrow, and actress Katherine Moenning.

RICHARD WARGO (Composer/Librettist) has been lauded by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a fresh new voice in American opera” and by Opera News as “a born opera composer.” A native of Scranton, PA and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he is a two-time recipient of the Belin Arts Scholarship. He has received grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pa. Council on the Arts and a fellowship from the Theatre Communications Group to serve as composer-in-residence at the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee, where his opera Ballymore, based on Brian Friel’s play Lovers, was premiered in 1999 and recorded for PBS. Recent performances of Ballymore include productions by Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland and

by Chelsea Opera in New York City. Mr. Wargo’s opera A Chekhov Trilogy was premiered by Chautauqua Opera in 1993 and since then has received numerous performances, including productions of the Trilogy’s third segment The Music Shop by the Juilliard School and by Opera national du Rhin in Colmar, France. A workshop performance of his current project, Sharon’s Grave, was presented jointly by the Seagle Music Colony and the Sembrich Opera Music in the summer of 2015. Mr. Wargo is a member

of ASCAP. During the summer months, he serves as artistic director of the Sembrich Opera Museum in Bolton Landing on Lake George, NY. In November of 2015, he was awarded the “Order of Merit” medal by the Polish government at the Lviv Opera House in Ukraine.

BUCK LINTON (Scenic Designer/Technical Director) Between earning his MFA in Scenography and Technical Design (Virginia Tech) and joining Rider as its Technical Director in 2012, he professionally produced nearly 200 productions with such venues as The Kennedy Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and McCarter Theatre. Selected works include Travesties, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Take Flight, Herringbone, Lookingglass Alice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Falstaff, Die Zauberflöte, Pelléas et Mélisande, Dialogues des Carmélites, La Clemenza di Tito, Oreste, Sunjata Kamalenya, The Odyssey Experience, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto, Turandot, Chicago, EDDA (Ping Chong & Sequentia Ensemble, international tour).

Since then, he has produced more than 100 productions for Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts in theater, dance and opera.

JIM PARKS (Costume Designer) is very happy to be working on Ballymore: Winners. His past design credits include The Magic Flute at Princeton University, several seasons of Summer Shakespeare at McCarter Theatre, Hamlet and The Tempest with the National Shakespeare Company and Henry V with The American Globe Theatre, to name a few. He currently works as the costume shop supervisor at Rider University and is excited to have had the opportunity to design his first production here.

SHAWN JOBIN (Lighting Designer) is a Rider University graduate from the Class of 2021, who earned his degree in Technical Theatre. He currently serves as the Technical Director for Six Flags Great Adventure, overseeing lighting, audio, and effects for marquee themed events such as Fright Fest® and Holiday in the Park®. Previous credits at Rider University include, Hair; The Musical (Assistant Lighting Designer), These Seven Sicknesses (ALD), Working; A Musical (Lighting Designer), Summer of ‘69; Woodstock Cabaret (Lighting Designer), and Assassin’s (ALD). Professional Credits include, Peter and the Starcatcher (LD, Mile Square Theatre, Hoboken N.J.), 5; A Celebration of the Senses (ALD, Alchemical Studios, N.Y), and The Education Project (ASD, Paradise Factory, N.Y).

DR. NIKOLAY VEREVKIN (Rehearsal Pianist) Dr. Nikolay Verevkin is a sought-after collaborative pianist and vocal coach in New York City and around the United States. In the past year Dr. Verevkin, joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music as a vocal and diction coach.

Rehired for the seventh consecutive season at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute Program for Singers, he will be collaborating with the most renowned voice teachers, coaches, and young artists in the industry.

Verevkin has served on the staff of The Juilliard School in the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, on faculty as visiting assistant professor in the Vocal Department of Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and on faculty of SongFest’s Summer Art Song Institute in Los Angeles, and he maintains a private coaching studio and collaborations with the faculty members at the Juilliard, Manhattan, and Mannes School of Music in New York City. In the fall of 2021, Nikolay Verevkin debuted of the stage of Carnegie Hall alongside internationally renowned baritone Michael Chioldi.

Verevkin has accompanied and presented numerous recitals and concerts to great acclaim, including with Carnegie Hall’s New York Citywide program, New York Festival of Song, InSeries of Washington D.C., Beth Morrison Projects/Saratoga Opera, The Bohemians, and Music Academy of the West, and Toronto Summer Music Festival. In addition, he has served as coach and pianist for productions at Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Music Academy of the West, The Juilliard School, Indiana University, Ball State University, Mariinsky Theater and St. Petersburg State Conservatory Theater of Opera and Ballet.

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