Recent Performances
Winter 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 ... Montpelier, Vermont.
Opera Insights with Tim Tavcar is an on-going series of informal and informative opera evenings. Each event in the series features some three operas that are being produced by opera companies in Montreal, Boston, and locally in Vermont and are attended by many Central Vermont opera fans.
The audience, aficionados and opera amateurs alike, enjoys stage director and actor Tim Tavcar's informative and entertaining "juicy tidbits" about the composer, historic productions and celebrated performers, illustrated with video and audio clips. The evenings end with a mini-concert of selections from the featured operas performed by local artists.
In 2009 the January talks & concerts covered The Nose (Shostakovich), Rusalka (Dvorak), and Macbeth (Verdi); in the April performances the featured operas were Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, The Bartered Bride by Smetana, and The Coronation of Poppea by Monteverdi.
Many of the area's fine singers have taken part in the last four years; our pianist "orchestra" since the beginning has been Eliza Thomas.
nging for LveWhat else do you call such a concert of song on the day before Valentine's?
Music by Schubert, Delibes, Fauré, Rodrigo, Strauss, Bizet, Puccini
February 13 , 2005 - Montpelier Unitarian Church - Montpelier, Vermont
Featuring Deidre Tascarella with David Janes & Simon Chaussé
assisted by Eliza Thomas, piano, Paul Silver, clarinet & Mike Hendron, guitar
Two events for lovers of song on the same day!
Satuday, March 29, 2003 - Unitarian Church of Montpelier
The Workshop: Bariton Simon Chaussé demonstrates and coaches music by
Fauré, Berlioz, Poulenc, Hahn, Debussy...
The Cabaret: baritone Simon Chaussé, soprano Deidre Tascarella, tenor Robert Dockstader, soprano Celina Moore with pianist Mary Jane Austin in opera...operetta...songs romantic...songs funny...songs silly!
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Highlights from CARMEN
Friday, June 21 & Sunday, June 23, 2002 - Barre Opera House, Barre VTThe heart of the opera - A chamber version in French
Semi-staged with chamber orchestra
"...very beautiful singing...fine voices, well cast, and a colorful chamber orchestra..."Click on the roses for more...
-Jim Lowe, Times-Argus
The Cast of CARMEN in Recital
Sunday, May 19, 2002 - Montpelier Unitarian ChurchSelections from Carmen plus other favorite repertoire performed by the cast of our own chamber version of Bizet's great opera.
A Cabaret for Spring: from Puccini to Gershwin plus Trenet and Bizet
Saturday May 11, 2002 - The Opera House at Enosburg FallsSoprano Deidre Tascarella and baritone Simon Chaussé with pianist Mary Jane Austin perform favorites ranging from the opera stage to Broadway to the Left Bank.
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"This is my Box!"
(Amahl and Caspar
Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors
Friday-Sunday Dec. 21-23, 2001 - Barre Opera House and The Opera House at Enosburg FallsBringing opera to Vermont's old "opera houses," we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first opera created for television and still a beloved Christmas favorite. With Jess Callahan as Amahl, Wendy Hoffman Farrell as his mother. Music direction Anne Decker, Stage direction Tim Tavcar.
"Vermont Opera Theater continues to grow in stature ... an attractive and effective performance ... a beautiful holiday experience"
-Jim Lowe, Times-Argus
Caspar, Jon Tisbert; Melchior, Joseph Garofalo; Balthazar, Fred Sebastian Furnari; Page, James Blanchard. Dancers, chorus, and orchestra.
