The Piccolo Opera Project Team
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The Piccolo Opera Project (POP) Presents
Il re pastore by Mozart
3:30 P.M. at 95 Third Street & Mission on 2022.08.05
Phone: 1.323.698.6907 for Information and Advance Ticketing
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The Piccolo Opera Project Team
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Piccolo Opera Company Mission StatementThe goal of the Piccolo Opera Company is to present shortened versions of operas. We hope this will encourage not only the regular opera patron to continue going to the theatre, but to bring younger people into the world of opera!
The Piccolo Opera Company is dedicated to the mission of spreading the experience of opera to as many people as possible on a personal, engaging level. Our black box presentation is small scale and small budget so that we don't have to charge an attendance fee. We love opera and we love sharing it with you!
Il re pastore by Mozart OverviewIl re pastore (The Shepherd King) is an opera, K. 208, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Metastasio, edited by Giambattista Varesco. It is an opera seria. The opera was first performed on 23 April 1775 in Salzburg in the Rittersaal (knight's hall) of the Residenz-Theater in the palace of the Archbishop Count Hieronymus von Colloredo.
In 1775 the opera was commissioned for a visit by the Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, the youngest son of Empress Maria Theresa, to Salzburg. Mozart spent six weeks working on the opera. It consists of two acts and runs for approximately 107 minutes.
The appearance of a quartet of lovers (Aminta and Elisa, Agenore and Tamiri) of somewhat dubious fidelity automatically puts a modern audience in mind of Cosi fan tutte. The principal psychological theme of the opera is, however, the demands of love against the demands of kingship, as Aminta, the shepherd-king, tussles with his conscience, and in this Il re pastore is closer in theme to Idomeneo than any other of Mozart's operas. Indeed, Idomeneo was the next completed opera that Mozart wrote after Il re pastore, after his six-year-long break from the stage. Furthermore, the theme of qualities for kingship appears in another opera, La clemenza di Tito, his last one.
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Alessandro (King)
(Seth Hanson)
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Agenore (counselor to Alessandro)
(Caleb Alexander)
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Tamiri (Daughter of Evil Tyrant)
(Leah Finn)
Aminta (heir of the rightful king)
(Catherine Durcan)
Elisa (A Princess from Another Land)
(Camryn Finn)
Aminta and His Wife
(Catherine Durcan) & (Camryn Finn)
Pianist Extraordinaire
(Yunyi Ji)
Designed and Produced by Charles Walter Buntjer
We hope to see you at 3:30 P.M. at 95 Third Street & Mission - 2022.08.05 - for the free presentation of Il re pastore by Mozart. Refreshments will be included.
Please contact us at the following phone number for advance ticketing or other questions you may have. 1.323.698.6907
The Piccolo Opera Project Playbill
Invitation to the Opera
Created on: 2022.07.24
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