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Theater of Connecticut was formed in 1986 to provide professional artists with
the vital opportunity to realize their talents in the practice of their crafts,
to provide access to the Performing Arts to a wide audience by presenting high
quality productions at an affordable price and to bring the Performing Arts into
communities not regularly serviced by Performing Arts companies. Our Main Stage
Opera Productions are fully mounted, thereby giving the artists (singers,
musicians, designers and support staff) the chance to expand their potential by
experiencing an actual performance. Ticket prices for our fully-produced operas
have been about half the cost of other professional opera companies in
Connecticut. Theater Wing performances, also produced on our Main Stage, have
provided another professional venue for Connecticut's actors to explore and
showcase their talents in Shakespearean plays, and have reached an audience
otherwise un-served in the state. Our
Overtures Outreach has organized, through various School Boards, Parent-Teacher
Associations, Libraries, Historic Sites, and Community and Service Agencies,
programs that presented not only Music Theater pieces written for children, but
also scenes from classical, and modern opera, as well as introducing to the
works of William Shakespeare in our education package. We also organized
projects that include the students in the actual presentation of music-theater
at their schools. To date, some 7,500 audience members, from New Haven to
Norwich, from Middletown to Manchester, New Hampshire, from school children to
seniors, have been to Overtures presentations. We
also collaborate with other performing groups, incorporating dance and music
into our productions, and are proud of our multi-cultural and non-traditional
casting, both in our opera and theater presentations. Our first fully produced opera was Madama Butterfly, and we have continued to present standard operas, many of them attended by standing-room audiences. Every production has received critical acclaim from audience and press, and our attendance has continually grown. In 1990 Opera Theater included "informance" talks before each show, offering a chance to hear the director talk about the specific performance. Our
recent show, La Traviata drew our most enthusiastic and youngest audience
yet and played to sold-out houses and critical acclaim. Inexpensive ticket
prices, as well as true appeal to young audiences and new opera-goers, draw a
substantial audience to our performances. We expect our 2001 production of
Mozart's Don Giovanni to be just as popular and successful.
Opera
Theater of Connecticut’s Vocal Competition, run by our guild, is in its tenth
year of providing a competition venue, monetary awards, as well as performance
opportunities to young Connecticut singers. Many winners perform nationally and
internationally in major opera houses, while others have benefited from
competing in a competition. For
the eighth year, Opera Theater of Connecticut has been chosen to present 2
performances at the Sanibel Music Festival in Florida and has just been
appointed the Festival's "Resident Opera Company". |
Opera Theater of Connecticut
Main Street
PO Box 733
Clinton, Connecticut 06413
860-669-8999
e-mail: OTCsings@aol.com
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