Organization

Conductor

Kamal Khan

Stage director

John de los Santos

Set designer

Atom Moore

Projections

Costume designer

Ashley Soliman

Singer

Tenor

Gabriel Hernandez

Torquemada

Anthony Laciura

Soprano

Tesia Kwarteng

Concepcion

Eva Parr

Victor Khodadad

Gonzalve

Chris Carr

Baritone

Markel Reed

Ramiro

Kyle Oliver

Bass

Angky Budiardjono

Don Inigo Gomez

Andy Dwan

Faust

Mezzo-soprano

Helena

Mefistofeles

New Camerata Opera

L'Heure espagnole -  (The Spanish Hour)

New York City

United States

Irondale Center

Faust et Hélène and L’heure espagnole: L'Heure espagnole Ravel (+1 More)

Public

The Spanish Hour

Faust and Helena

Approved

New Camerata Opera will present a double bill of French one-act operas, conducted by Music Director Kamal Khan. For the first time ever, New Camerata Opera brings its unique blend of fun and immersiveness to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Stage Director John de los Santos conjures a gorgeous world where clockwork photography by NYC-based artist Atom Moore creates a striking backdrop to this timeless story.

Faust et Hélène

Boulanger was a contemporary of Ravel’s and his influences can be heard in this piece that won her the Prix de Rome composition prize at the age of 19. With just three voices, this opera offers a generous glimpse into the genius of Boulanger’s compositional skill and deserves to be featured more frequently in the operatic canon. Taken from Goethe’s retelling of the story of Faust, Boulanger’s opera focuses on the moment when Faust is persuaded by Méphistophélès to sign over his soul to eternal damnation in return for being shown one moment of true happiness. The theme of time connects the two operas and provides a framework for Moore’s unique displays.

L’heure espagnole

First performed in Paris in 1911, L’heure espagnole is set in a clock shop in central Spain. It follows the fortunes of Torquemada, the hardworking clockmaker, as his young wife Concepción negotiates her way through her collection of ridiculous lovers. Ravel’s music is bursting with hummable melodies, lively habanera dances and other Spanish folk song elements that will defy audience’s preconceived notions of opera.

English

The Spanish Hour by Ravel, Faust and Helena by Boulanger, From (2022/2022), Directed by John de los Santos,, Conductor Kamal Khan, Irondale Center, New York City, United States

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