15756: Netchinsky: Announcing 2 Events, Toussaint Opera in Boston (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jill Netchinsky Toussaint <netchins@fas.harvard.edu>

>* Toussaint Before the Spirits: From History to Stage *
>
>Saturday, June 7, 2003
>2:00-4:00 pm
>Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
>Free admission
>Reservations suggested, call 617-363-0396
>
>A dance opera based on excerpts from Madison Smartt Bell's
>award-winning novels * All Souls' Rising*  and*  Master of the
>Crossroads* , * Toussaint Before the Spirits*  tells the story of
>Toussaint Louverture, leader and hero of Haiti's revolution towards
>independence, who was captured in a ruse by Napoleon's army and
>condemned to die without a trial in a cold prison in the French
>Alps. During his last hours, Toussaint calls forth the spirits to
>judge his life.
>
>Join composer Elena Ruehr, choreographer Nicola Hawkins, and scholar
>Jill Netchinsky Toussaint for a discussion on how this historical
>subject was brought to the stage as a dance opera.
>
>
* Toussaint Before the Spirits * - the performance:

>Featuring: Stephen Salters, baritone, as Toussaint Louverture, and
>the Nicola Hawkins Dance Company. Gil Rose, conductor. Nicola
>Hawkins, director.


>World Premiere performances at 8 pm on June 7 and June 10, 2003
>Tower Auditorium at Massachusetts College of Art, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston
>Tickets: $19, $22, $30
>Order tickets online at www.operaunlimited.org or by calling 617-363-0396
Selling out --act quickly!

>
>Toussaint Before the Spirits was commissioned by the Boston Modern
>Orchestra Project and the American Composers Forum - Boston Area
>Chapter, with funds provided by the Boston Arts Fund and the Cherbec
>Advancement Foundation. Funding for the libretto was provided by
>Boston Academy of Music.