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26 A bluesy Streetcar Named Desire By Emily Pritchard Cary Virginia Opera’s production of Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire opened in Norfolk February 16. It next plays at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts before the nal performances in Richmond. is third installment in the company’s American opera cycle is based on Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1998 set in New Orleans during the 1940s. Baritone David Adam Moore Ficklin Bryant Upholstery Quality Workmanship “For Those Who Know The Difference” FABRICS - FOAM - SUPPLIES Haynesville, Va 333-3343 or 313-7303 makes his VO debut in the role of Stanley Kowalski opposite soprano Kelly Cae Hogan as Blanche DuBois. Julia Ebner is Blanche’s sister, Stella, and tenor Scott Ramsey plays Blanche’s suitor Harold. “My job is to step inside Stanley to learn what he wants and needs and what matters to him,” Moore said. “Everything he does makes perfect sense. He is very much a product of his background and even though the facts aren’t there, I deduce that he comes from a recent generation of Polish immigrants and grew up in a Polish community on the lower socioeconomic rung that made him see things in black and white, a simple right or wrong. “Considering where he came from, he must have blown through the ranks to become a Master Sergeant during the war because that takes about ten years. He is now a climber who made it through World War II and found a beautiful girl. en the tension begins when her sister, Miss DuBois, arrives. During the battle of Salerno, he experienced some horrors that may have caused his outbursts and aggression, but he is a young man full of vitality and INN at MONTROSS theinnatmontross.com love for life on his terms.” Moore is excited to repeat the role with the Lyric Opera of Chicago later this spring, allowing him to remain the same character for four months. He follows that as Jud Fry in the company’s production of Oklahoma. For the rst ten years of his career, he sang 30 roles without repeating, itting from style to style and language to language. Now that he has a resume of more than 60 roles, he enjoys repeating favorites like Don Giovanni, Prior Walter in Angels in America and Vincent Van Gogh, a role he created in Bernard Rands’s Vincent as a guest artist with Indiana University’s Opera eatre. To direct A Streetcar Named Desire, VO chose the creative Sam Helfrich who is returning after directing Philip Glass’ Orphee last season. e conductor is the renowned Ari Pelto, a veteran of major opera companies. “I’m most excited about this production because it’s not a literal translation of the play and movie”, Thursday Bistro Night A Great Deal of Good Food Menu Changes Weekly Available <strong>Online</strong> Three Chef Station Tour Friday & Saturday Dining, $14.50 - $16.50 Grand Sunday Brunch $15.99 includes coffee, Bed and Breakfast Accommodations 21 Polk St., Montross 804-493-8624 Spring 2013 Helfrich said. “I was more interested in the characters and looking at them under a microscope, so I consciously decided to avoid watching the movie and featuring the apartment in the set. Instead, I am focusing on three objects critical to each character. e rst we see is Blanche, followed by Stanley, then Stella. “e characters will surprise the audience. I see Blanche as being much more sympathetic than she has been portrayed in the past. Previn’s music throughout tells you a lot and creates a mood about how the characters feel inside. I’ve asked the actors to perform their roles understatedly and to avoid making unnecessary movements to emphasize something the audience already knows. e nal page of music when Blanche is being escorted to the madhouse is incredible.” Wherever Helfrich works, he puts his unique stamp on every new piece. Among his highly praised premieres are Kepler by Glass and e Secret Agent by J. D. McClatchy. Perhaps his most unusual project is one he describes as audacious: a fully staged version of e Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony set in America during three dierent periods of history. He promises, “A lot of people don’t like contemporary opera as a living art form, but I think the VO audience will discover that this production of A Streetcar Named Desire opera helps them to understand it in a new way by seeing it done in an environment that turns Blanche into a sympathetic character.”
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