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Production Calendar (google calendar link)
Social Media Survey
Contact Sheet
Ruggiero Wiki-transl. / Cendrillon Wiki-transl.
Maleine research (Maeterlinck, Grimm, etc.)
Maleine Libretto Act I Act II Score Act I Act II
Mrs. President Libretto Background Info
Important 2019 Dates/Locations
Italian Classes w/ Lucy Yates
Saturday, April 20 – 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Class 1 – location TBD
Rafforzamenti handout
Baroque Style Class w/ Charlie Weaver
Sunday, April 28 – 11am – 2 p.m. – 255 Cabrini Blvd. #5H
TRAGICOMEDIA STYLE SHEET
Character through Movement and Text w/ Chuck Hudson
Saturday, May 18 – Friday, May 24: Pearl Studios, 8th Ave.
OFFICIAL SCORES:
La liberazione di Ruggiero: Prima la musica (paper scores are in; PDFs have been sent – email CFilto@gmail.com if you have not received it)
Princess Maleine: PV Score and front matter (6/3) Errata sheet
Cendrillon: public domain; final version integrated with dialogue
Dialogue in FRENCH – please memorize as printed in the above version.
Mary Queen of Scots: Act III excerpt Full Opera Libretto
Mrs. President: Act I excerpt
FECTEAU COACHING AVAILABILITY:
Send email to CFilto@gmail.com with 2 – 3 specific choices for EACH of your coachings, spread out over the next 10 weeks or so; if your work progresses quickly and you are well prepared for each session, more coachings will be granted for additional polishing work. The coaching allotment is a minimum. All coachings at my studio: 255 Cabrini Blvd. #5H; corner of 187th. A train to 181st (north/front end); elevator on the right after the turnstiles up to Ft. Washington Ave.; exiting station go right (north) 1 long block to 187th; left on 187th one short block to intersection – building is on the right – phone: 917 232-6273
AVAILABLE COACHING TIMES (all slots 90 minutes):
No coaching times remain with Chris Fecteau prior to July 1. To request coaching times between July 1 and 7, please email me with as many options as possible.
archived 2017 information
Early Baroque Style Class VIDEO Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Charlie’s Style Handout – 17th Century Musical/Rhetorical Cliches
Great website for Baroque resources: Toronto Continuo Collective
Italian Classes w/ Lucy Yates: Saturdays, April 1, 8, 15 — 11 – 2 p.m. @ 255 Cabrini Blvd. #5H
Class 1 VIDEO Sadly, audio failed
Class 2 VIDEO Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Class 3 VIDEO Part 1 Part 2 (labeled 3 on Youtube) Part 3 (Youtube 4) Part 4 (Youtube 5)
Florio’s 1611 Italian/English Dictionary
Archaic Italian Verb Forms
Verb Mood Chart PDF – PowerPoint
Rafforzamenti
Montessori Parts of Speech
Czech “Boot Camp”
Handouts: Alphabet/Pronunciation – Vowel Length/Tongue Twisters – Dvorak: Písne milostné (Love Songs)
Poetry reading (short/long vowels) – Kozena singing Dvorak
Online Czech Dictionary
Recommended Recording (for Czech) Mackerras (cond.)/Popp (Vixen)
Class 1 VIDEO Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Class 2 VIDEO Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Class 3 VIDEO Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Other Resources
- A History of Private Life (5 vols. – out of print but avail. used)
- “Ovid’s Gaze” by Wendy Heller
The Janacek Opera Libretti: Translations & Pronunciations (Vol. 1: Příhody lišky Bystroušky/The Cunning Little Vixen) by Timothy Cheek. Scarecrow Press, 2003
Online, downloadable libretto and translation of Příhody lišky Bystroušky (5th on the page)
Original Cunning Vixen story by Tesnohlidek, translated by Firkusny, Morgan & Jones, illustrated by Sendak
Singing in Czech by Timothy Cheek. Scarecrow Press, 2001.
David Stech’s Vixen Recording Recommendations: - Mackerras, Vienna Phil, Popp, etc. https://open.spotify.com/
album/0ZQ8qcDcmt0myos8G95BPs - Neumann, Prague Nat. Theater https://open.spotify.com/
album/3CDptTzkY0DI5rU3YLffMg
Native Czech cast: while the voices aren’t as spectacular they’re still pretty terrific!
Calendar/Scheduling
Individual Coachings
Production Logistics
Costume Measurement Worksheet
Bios Style Sheet
2016 Resources
Prevost, Manon Lescaut (Waddell translation, 1935) Book I Book II
Murger, Scenes de la Vie de Boheme (Marriage/Selwyn transl., 1901) various formats
Kushner: Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Paris (Cornell University Press) Amazon listing (Victoria Crutchfield’s recommended reading at least for Manon, Poussette, Javotte, Rosette)
Nicholas John, Violetta and Her Sisters (Faber & Faber, 1994) Full text (PDF)
“How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion” (Smithsonian magazine)
Splendeurs et Miseres (overview of the Musee d’Orsay exhibition “L’art de prostitution”)
Manon Resources from Victoria!
The Draughtsman’s Contract on YouTube – this is a little earlier than our period (the wigs for men by 1730 are muuuuuch smaller), but it is still a good reference for movement.A scene from Barry Lyndon on YouTube – this is exactly our period!
The Elegant Art of Movement by Alicia Annas (excerpts)
Victoria’s Pinterest board of Rococo poses – still images can be helpful too, although many of these are a little later than our period.
Italian Resources
Scioglilingua Exercise (tongue twisters for fun and practice)
Grammar references
Big Green Book of Italian Verbs by Katrin Maes-Christie and Daniel Franklin Marcello Sensini.
Grammar and Translation for the Italian Libretto by Richard M. Berrong. Excalibur Publishing. 1996.
Grammatica italiana. Milano: Mondador Scuola. 1990
Archaic Italian Verb Forms
Location for Classes and Rehearsals:
- 255 Cabrini Blvd. #5H (Chris Fecteau’s home/studio): DIRECTIONS: A train to 181st (front/north of train); elevator up to Fort Washington Ave.; exiting the station, go right one long block; left on 187th one short block; building on the right under scaffolding is ours! 917 232-6273
- 353 Studios = 353 W. 48th St., 2nd Floor
- Alvin Ailey Studios = 405 W. 55th St. (ask at desk for studio #)
- Shetler Studios = 244 W. 54th St., 12th Floor
- City Center = 130 W. 56th St., 4th Floor
- Pearl Studios, 519 and 520 8th Ave. (various floors)
Bios and Headshots due May 1
Please send BOTH in one email if possible.
– Before submitting your bio, please refer to our STYLE SHEET. We may exercise the option to return your bio for editing. Bio must be written to refer BACKWARDS from August 12, 2017 (projects occurring between now and then should be referred to in past tense). Final version will have approval right by artist.
– Headshots (preferably vertical/portrait layout) should be in .jpg format, as high-resolution as you have. We reserve the right to crop and edit as necessary for the program book; photos generally posted ‘as-is’ on the website.