Opera Vista

Opera Vista, winner of the 2010 Houston Press MasterMind Award, announces that its upcoming 2010 Opera Vista Festival and the third annual Vista Competition will take place March 20-27, at the Czech Center Museum Houston and the Live Oak Friends Meetinghouse. Buy your tickets now.

In October, seven semi-finalists from three countries were selected for the 2010 Vista Competition, ranging from an adaptation of a Japanese folk tale to a horror opera. Excerpts from each work will be performed on March 24th & 26th at the Czech Center, 4920 San Jacinto at Wichita, beginning at 7:30pm.  A panel of judges, including world-renowned composer Daron Hagen and acclaimed conductor Leslie Dunner, will critique each excerpt, and the audience will vote to select which operas will advance. In the final round, the winning excerpts will be performed again with a longer critique from the judges, and the audience will get to directly question the composers. The audience then votes to determine the winner of the competition, which will be announced the next night at the festival’s closing performance. The winner receives $1,500 and a full production of their opera at the next festival.

The following operas, in alphabetical order, will be in the third annual Vista Competition:

• And Then I Remember, Music by Lembit Beecher, Ann Arbor, MI
• Bamboo Cutter and the Moon, Music by Joseph Eidson, Lawrence, KS
• Happy Garden of Life, Music by Katarzyna Brochocka, Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland
• Joc de Mans, Music by Alberto Garcia Demestres, Santa Maria de Palautordera, Spain
• The Monkey’s Paw, Music by Jonathan Kupper, La Mirada, CA
• The Yellow Wallpaper, Music by Catherine Reid, Glens Falls, NY

Here is the schedule at a glance:

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