Encompass New Opera Theatre
138 S. Oxford Street, Suite 1A
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718.398.4675 tel.
718.398.4684 fax
encompassopera@yahoo.com
Nancy Rhodes
Artistic Director
John Yaffe
Music Director
Spring Gala!
Touring available for a Gertrude Stein musical trilogy. Click here for more information
Save the Date! May 18th Encompass Honors Composer Jerry Bock!
"The most distinctive music heard all season."
—USA Today (for Only Heaven)
"An inventive and most pleasing triple bill."
—The New York Times (for Miss Havisham's Wedding Night, Ocean Dream, and I Will Wait)
"[Nancy] Rhodes is one of the most inventive directors of the theatre."
—The (Bergen) Record (for Elizabeth and Essex)
New American Opera Previews from Page to Stage – March 16th
with Midge Woolsey, Moderator
Encompass will present highlights from SHAW SINGS! The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Passion, Poison and Petrifaction. Midge Woolsey of WQXR Radio will moderate a panel discussion with the creative team and performers –
Sunday, March 16th at 2:30 P.M., at Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall, 122nd Street and Broadway. Tickets: $15 in advance/$20 at the door. $10 students and seniors. For reservations call: 718-398-4675.
Encompass Spring Gala!
Honoring Broadway Composer Jerry Bock
Sunday, May 18th, 6:00 pm at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. Call or email Encompass Office for tickets: 718-398-4675, encompassopera@yahoo.com
Encompass Mainstage Production: SHAW SINGS! June 19 – 22
in association with Opera Index, Fully Staged Performances with Orchestra
Composer Philip Hagemann teams up with George Bernard Shaw in two of his most fascinating looks at literary inspiration and passion. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets will delight and illuminate with the likes of Shakespeare himself as a bumbling eavesdropper who snares all his famous lines from the petty conversations of the court—including in disguise—Queen Elizabeth I herself.
Then step into Shaw’s upside-down-world with a hilarious musical farce, Passion, Poison and Petrifaction, imbued with all the modern-day soap opera elements of infidelity, murder and intrigue. You will not stop laughing! John Yaffé will conduct and Nancy Rhodes will direct.
Performance Schedule:
Thursday, June 19 at 8:00 P.M.,
Friday, June 20 at 8:00 P.M.,
Saturday, June 21 Matinee at 2:00 P.M. and evening at 8:00 P.M.
Sunday, June 22 Matinee at 3:00 P.M.
At the Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space (95th and Broadway). For tickets call: 212-864-5400 or http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/2348.
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138 South Oxford Street • Suite 1A • Brooklyn, NY 11217
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