{"id":3064,"date":"2011-11-15T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2011-11-15T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:35:21","slug":"musictheater-students-enjoy-a-day-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/3064","title":{"rendered":"Music\/theater students enjoy &#8216;a day of madness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3065\" style=\"margin: 6px\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/11\/figaro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"208\" \/>By Kevin Green &#8212;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Morningside College Department of Music presented scenes from <em>The Marriage of Figaro<\/em> by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart this past Friday (Nov. 11) at Eppley Auditorium.\u00a0 The workshop was a process-based class with an emphasis on developing skills necessary for \u201cthe craft of combining classical singing and acting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais \u2013 <em>La Folle Journee, ou Le Mariage de Figaro<\/em>, the story is the sequel <em>to Le Barbier de Seville (The Barber of Seville).<\/em> <em>The Marriage of Figaro <\/em>recounts a \u201cday of madness\u201d for Figaro and his bride-to-be Susanna, who is Countess Rosine\u2019s maid \u2013 and the Count\u2019s intended conquest.<\/p>\n<p>Stage director Gary Briggle, along with directors Shannon Salyards and Kate Saulsbury, chose to omit almost all scenery to \u201callow for the ultimate suspension of reality and engagement of creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the evening, several different students portrayed the lead roles. According to Jaime Stevicks (one of four Susanna\u2019s), \u201cIt was because we just did scenes of the opera. The directors got us all involved that way.\u201d She also noted, \u201cIt was a like workshop for us rather than a true performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about nerves and \u201cstage-fright,\u201d Senior Nicholas Anderson (The Count) answered, \u201cIt went by so quickly. I really didn\u2019t have time to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise when asked about singing opera bass, the lowest vocal range of all voice types, Anderson replied, \u201cI don\u2019t have any swagger. I just enjoy what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michele Grossman was the pianist for the performance. Guest Director Gary Briggle is on the faculty of the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He will also be featured in Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein\u2019s version of Cinderella as King Maximillian this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kevin Green &#8212; The Morningside College Department of Music presented scenes from The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart this past Friday (Nov. 11) at Eppley Auditorium.\u00a0 The workshop was a process-based class with an emphasis on developing skills necessary for \u201cthe craft of combining classical singing and acting.\u201d Based on the 1784&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}