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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

Mara Waldman
Music Director

Fall Gala!

Save the Date! Oct. 4

Click here for info and take a peak at our past galas.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Touring available for a Gertrude Stein musical trilogy. Click here for more information

Praise for Encompass New Opera Theatre

"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)

PAST PERFORMANCES

 

2009 Mainstage: I TRE COMPAGNI

2009 75th Anniversary Celebration of FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS

2009 Kick-Off Concert and Party


2008 Mainstage: SHAW SINGS!
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Passion, Poison and Petrifaction

2007 Mainstage: Kiss Me Kate
Through the Looking Glass: American Opera Backwards
Forwards, Wall to Wall Opera, Symphony Space

2006 Commission: The Theory of Everything

2005 Mainstage: Gertrude Stein Musical Trilogy

2004 Mainstage: A Perfect Plan
The Diary of Anne Frank

2003 Mainstage: Approaching Infinity

2002 Mainstage: Only Heaven
The Diary of Anne Frank

2001 Mainstage: Un Racconto Fiorentino



PAST PRODUCTIONS


Encompass New Opera Theatre Selected Mainstage Productions

*signifies World premiere              **signifies New York or American premiere
Gloria Albee
George Antheil
George Antheil
Dominik Argento
Dominik Argento/John Olon-Scrymgeour
Seymour Barab
Samuel Barber/Menotti
Beeson/William Saroyan
Marc Blitzstein/Lillian Hellman
Paul Bowles
Benjamin Britten
Aaron Copland
Lukas Foss/Menotti
Grigori Frid
Louis Gioia
Ricky Ian Gordon/Langston Hughes
Greco/Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Harbison/W.B. Yeats
Sheldon Harnick
Sorrel Hays/Sally Ordway/Nancy Rhodes
Hans Werner Henze/Hildesheimer
Tom Johnson
Kazanoff/Bertolt Brecht/Replansky
Arif Mardin
Heinrich Marschner
Robert Moran/Michael John LaChiusa
Carl Orff
Howard Richardson/E.G. Kasakoff
Victor Kioulaphides/Nancy Rhodes
George Quincy/Benjamin Barber
Michael Stewart/Mark Bramble/Doug
Katsaros & Richard Engquist
Charles Strouse
Jeffrey Sweet
Richard Pearson Thomas
Thompson/Rael/Hayes
Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein
Virgil Thomson/Jack Larsen
Sophie Treadwell
Trefouse/DeLynn
Robert Ward/Bernard Stambler
Hugo Weisgall/August Strindberg
Westergaard/Lear
               The Yellow Wallpaper*
Transatlantic**
Venus in Africa**
Postcard from Morocco
Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night
A Perfect Plan*
A Hand of Bridge
Hello Out There
Regina
A Picnic Cantata
Phaedra**
The Tender Land
Introductions and Good-Byes
The Diary of Anne Frank**
Un Racconto Fiorentino*
Only Heaven*
Aria da Capo*
A Full Moon in March
Frustration
The Glass Woman*
The End of a World**
The Four-Note Opera
St. Joan of the Stockyards*
I Will Wait*
Der Vampyr**
Desert of Roses**
The Wise Woman**
A Thread of Scarlett*
Ocean Dream*
Home and the River*

Elizabeth and Essex*
Satisfaction
Porch*
Ladies in a Maze*
The Girl on the Via Flaminia*
The Mother of Us All
Lord Byron
Machinal
The Monkey Opera*
Pantaloon: He Who Gets Slapped
The Stronger
Mr. and Mrs. Discobolus**


NEA Logo The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has generously awarded Encompass New Opera Theatre a coveted Access to Artistic Excellence grant for The Theory of Everything.

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