Encompass New Opera Theatre Presents Works of Gertrude Stein, 4/27

Encompass New Opera Theatre will present an evening of the music of Gertrude Stein, featuring CAPITAL CAPITALS and THREE SISTERS WHO ARE NOT SISTERS on April 27th. The evening will be directed by Nancy Rhodes and conducted by Mara Waldman.

Gertrude wrote CAPITAL CAPITALS in 1923, poking fun at four "VIP" gentlemen promoting their business ventures in the South of France. Composer Virgil Thomson, who met Gertrude in Paris, composed the witty score in 1927, with music that evokes fanfares and playground ditties, as well as amusing operatic tremolos.

THREE SISTERS WHO ARE NOT SISTERS, by composer Ned Rorem and Gertrude Stein. This imaginative spoof of parlour games and murder mysteries is scored for piano and five singers.

The performance will take place on Friday, April 27th at 7:00 pm for the first show and at 9:30 pm for the second show.

Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters and Capital Capitals were part of Encompass New Opera Theatre’s 2005 Mainstage Production of A Gertrude Stein Musical Triology, with the World Premiere of the jazz opera Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On with music by William Banfield, story and text by poet Karren LaLonde Alenier.

Encompass New Opera Theatre is one of the nation’s leading companies championing the creation, development and production of new American opera and music theatre for more than 35 years.