Devilish Delights: Spooky Choral Opera | North Bay
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Muir Beach Community Center | 19 Seacape Dr, Muir Beach, CA
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Devilish Delights: Spooky Choral Opera | North Bay
Contemporary Opera Marin’s Fall 2015 offering is a presentation of Devilish Delights, two fully staged, 30 minute, choral operas based on Medieval themes, and sung in English are appropriate for the Halloween season: Totentanz for choir and actors, by Hugo Distler and The Fall of Lucifer for soloists and choir, by Geoffrey Burgon.
2015 Devilish Delights Performance Schedule
October 31, November 7, 2015 – 7:30 pm
November 1, 2015 – 2 pm
Lefort Recital Hall / PA72, Performing Arts BuildingNovember 1, 2015 – 7 pm
Muir Beach Community CenterDistler composed Totentanz (Dance of Death) in 1934, after viewing the 15th Century frescoes of the same name in the Marienkirche in Lübeck, Germany, using the motets of Heinrich Schultz and the poetry of Angelus Silesias as inspiration. Shockingly, the Lubeck frescoes were destroyed in an Allied air raid in 1942, shortly before Distler was driven to suicide by the Nazis.
Originally presented nearly 700 years ago, the Chester Mystery Plays were performed outdoors on open pageant wagons as a way to bring the stories of the Bible, both Old and New Testament, to the illiterate masses. The Fall of Lucifer, one of the most popular of the plays due to the humanity it brings to Lucifer and his rivalry with God, is the basis for British composer Geoffrey Burgon’s beautiful choral opera.
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Cost: FREE
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