Purchase tickets NOW for FANDANGO! the wedding of Figaro and Susanna (music by Mozart).
This single performance event is on Saturday, March 29th at 7:30 pm (6:30/doors) in a church located at 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey.
FANDANGO! is an adaptation of the opera Le Nozze di Figaro created for OPERAnauts by Joy Bechtler and arranged by composer, Craig Levesque for wind quintet and marimba. Wedding cake and punch complete the experience of the Performance and are included in the admission price. Tickets are $20/child, $35/adult, $100/family.
FANDANGO! music by Mozart
So there are these Italian guys. They end up in Spain. They fall in and out of love and lust with local ladies. Jealousy. Passion. Adolescent angst. Emotions in three languages, punctuated with beautiful dances, and lots of confusion. Sound like a soap opera? It’s Mozart at his best. Performed by five talented opera singers, a childens’ chorus, a marimba and wind quintet to benefit OPERAnauts to Congo. For the opera buff or novice it’s an evening of dreams and promise.
Martin Hargrove, lyric bass (Figaro) and Artistic Director of FANDANGO, has performed the roles of Colline in La Bohème with Center City Opera Theatre Opera Delaware & Jake in Porgy & Bess. He has also appeared with the Newark Symphony, & the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival.
Joy Bechtler, lyric soprano (la Contessa) has entertained audiences in concert and opera throughout the world. A convincing actress with an appealing and expressive voice, she has appeared with Opera Lanka, the Lanka Philharmonic, Opera Festival of New Jersey, and with Castel Opera Arts.
Acclaimed by the Washington Post for his “sterling performances”, baritone Brian Ming Chu has established himself onstage and in recital as a dynamic interpreter of music from the Baroque to the 21st century. Mr. Chu has performed numerous roles with opera companies from Philadelphia to Dallas, including signature performances as Marcello in La Bohème, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and the title role in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. As a resident artist with the Baltimore Opera he sang roles in Carmen, Lakmé, Salome, La scala di seta, Madama Butterfly and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Emily K. Byrne is an “impressive vocalist” with a diverse range of performance credits. Ms. Byrne’s portrayal of The Mother in Long Leaf Opera’s production of Amahl and the Night Visitors and was hailed as “…the show’s unifying force in the vocal department.” Though originally from the greater Philadelphia area, Ms. Byrne has spent the last few years performing up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Ms. Byrne spent the last year working as a performing artist for The Prizery in South Boston, Virginia where she played Betty Jean Reynolds in The Marvelous Wonderettes as well as The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Soprano, Tracy Sturgis, maintains an active performing schedule. She is currently on the roster of The Philadelphia Singers and performs regularly with both Children’s Opera Box and Delaware Valley Opera Company. She is also the soprano soloist at Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore, PA. Most recently, Tracy performed Susanna in DVOC’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro.