Organization

Singer

Soprano

Laquita Mitchell

Micaela

Mezzo-soprano

Maya Lahyani

Carmen

Tenor

Stephanie Blythe

Don José

Stage director

Eric Einhorn

Conductor

Geoffrey McDonald

Sound designer

Jon Robertson

Video designer

Paul Deziel

Costume designer

Junghyun Georgia Lee

Ilana Breitman

Pianist

Candace Chien

Alice Tommasso

Robinetta Perkins

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

On Site Opera

English

French

A Night at the Opera @ Caramoor

Katonah

United States

Public

Carmen (adaptation)

Lesson Plan

Approved

A Night at the Opera @ Caramoor: Carmen (adaptation) Bizet (+1 More)

Video of our Audio and Video Designers, Jon Robertson and Paul Deziel, explaining what happens behind the scenes during "Lesson Plan"!
Final performances January 28th and 29th of this wonderful production by Rachel J. Peters, starring Stephanie Blythe and Laquita Mitchell!
Grab your tickets here: https://osopera.org/productions/lesso...

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA WITH STEPHANIE BLYTHE & LAQUITA MITCHELL
FEATURING
LESSON PLAN
BASED ON GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN’S DER SCHULMEISTER.
ADDITIONAL MUSIC, LIBRETTO, AND SINGING TRANSLATION BY RACHEL J. PETERS
AND
EXCERPTS FROM CARMEN
MUSIC BY GEORGES BIZET, LIBRETTO BY HENRI MEILHAC AND LUDOVIC HALÉVY
Presented at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

Join On Site Opera (last seen at Caramoor with their 2018 production of The Secret Gardener in the Sunken Garden) for an evening of operatic comedy and tragedy featuring international opera star Stephanie Blythe. 

In Rachel J. Peters’ Lesson Plan, an acclaimed opera diva thinks she will be teaching a master class with trained singers at a prestigious conservatory. Instead, she catches her assistant in a scheduling faux pas and takes the stage for a group of liberal arts students at a community college – a group with little singing experience or interest in what the great diva has in mind. Intercepted by an overwhelmed school administrator with a side hustle as an amateur choir director, the pair clash over teaching technique, singing and the true meaning of art. While scales and arias were part of the curriculum, with a little humor and a lot of heart, they leave with a much more valuable lesson in humility, humanity, and truly finding their voice.

In the second half of the program, Stephanie Blythe reprises her acclaimed tenor debut in the role of Don Jose in excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen. She is joined by Laquita Mitchell and Maya Lahyani for a thrilling program of arias and duets from this timeless opera arranged for two piano accompaniment.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Co-Producer