To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Three Decembers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Three Decembers
Opera by Jake Heggie
The opera's composer
LibrettistGene Scheer
Based onSome Christmas Letters
by Terrence McNally
Premiere
February 29, 2008 (2008-02-29)
Houston Grand Opera

Three Decembers is a chamber opera in two acts by Jake Heggie to a libretto by Gene Scheer which is based on the unpublished play Some Christmas Letters by Terrence McNally. Created with a role for Frederica von Stade, the work premiered on 29 February 2008 at the Houston Grand Opera (HGO). It commissioned the work in association with the San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances.

The opera was first presented under the working title Last Acts at the world premiere by the Houston Grand Opera. The premiere production was directed by Leonard Foglia with lighting designed by Brian Nason and costumes by Cesar Galindo. The ten-instrument chamber orchestra included two pianos played by Heggie himself as well as Patrick Summers, who also conducted the performance.[1][2]

Synopsis

The three parts of the opera are set in the month of December in the years 1986, 1996 and 2006 and it tells the story of a famous actress, Madeline, and her two adult children as they struggle to know and love each other.[1] "It is the universal story about the family we wish for and the family we wind up with."[3]

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast, 29 February 2008[4]
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Madeline (Maddie), a famous actress mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade
Charlie, Madeline's son baritone Keith Phares
Beatrice (Bea), Madeline's daughter soprano Kristin Clayton

References

  1. ^ a b Sohre, James (March 17, 2008). "Heggie's "Last Acts"". Opera Today. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Sigman, Matthew (July 2015). "Composing a Life". Opera News. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  3. ^ University of Pittsburgh OCC (November 18, 2011). "The Three Decembers". Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Griffel, Margaret Ross (2012). Operas in English: A Dictionary, p. 267. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810883252

External links

This page was last edited on 14 March 2023, at 08:52
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy