Organization

Singer

Soprano

Heather Buck

Joan

Conductor

Gil Rose

Stephen Powell

PIERRE CAUCHON

Ryan Stoll

THE JAILER

Jeremy Ayres Fisher

SOLDIER

Costume designer

Brooke Stanton

Hair and Make-up

Rachel Padula Shufelt

Luke Scott

FATHER JULIEN

Odyssey Opera

Orchestra

English

The Trial at Rouen

Boston

United States

NEC Jordan Hall

The Trial at Rouen Dello Joio,N

Public

Approved

In 1950, Boston-based Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Norman Dello Joio premiered his first opera, The Triumph of Saint Joan. Unhappy with the results he wit...

In 1950, Boston-based Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Norman Dello Joio premiered his first opera, The Triumph of Saint Joan. Unhappy with the results he withdrew the work. Still fascinated with the subject, he was commissioned by the NBC Television Opera Theatre to produce an original 75-minute opera for television. The resulting work in two acts, The Trial at Rouen, premiered April 8, 1956, on NBC. In collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera’s performance marks the first time The Trial at Rouen was performed off screen and on stage in front of a live audience.

Gil Rose // Conductor

Heather Buck                   Joan
Stephen Powell                Pierre Cauchon
Luke Scott                         Father Julien
Ryan Stoll                          The Jailer
Jeremy Ayres Fischer      Soldier


The Trial at Rouen by Norman Dello Joio 
Produced in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)

December 1, 2017 
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall

Video by Kathy Wittman, Ball Square Films
audio recording by Antonio Oliart

In 1950 Boston based Pulitzer Prize winning composer Norman Dello Joio premiered his first opera The Triumph of Saint Joan. Unhappy with the results he withdrew the work. Still fascinated with the subject he was commissioned by the NBC Television Opera Theatre to produce an original 75-minute opera for television. The resulting work in two acts, The Trial at Rouen, premiered on April 8, 1956, on NBC. In collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera’s performance marks the first time The Trial at Rouen will be performed off screen and on stage in front of a live audience. The most condensed of all the operas of our season, it focuses on the period of the imprisonment and trial of Joan. The concert will open with Dello Joio’s most popular work The Triumph of Saint Joan Symphony a purely orchestral work based on the material from his first Joan of Arc opera.

The Trial at Rouen by Dello Joio, N., From (2017/2017), Conductor Gil Rose, NEC Jordan Hall, Boston, United States

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