You are invited to the Chocolate Factory for WELLSPRING (a work-in-progress) presented by the Hourglass Group, Ltd.
Written by Ruth Margraff
Directed by Elyse Singer
Music by Nikos Brisco
Performed by Jennifer Gibbs, Stephen Bel Davies, Tony Naumovski and the Cafe Antarsia Ensemble: Nikos Brisco, Ruth Margraff, Ron Riley & Rami El-Aasser
Thursday, December 13, Friday, December 14th & Saturday, December 15, 2007
@ 8:00 PM @ THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 5-49 49th Ave L.I.C. New York 11101
(718) 482-7069
Wellspring is Ruth Margraff's new "world folk opera" set in 1999 war-torn Sarajevo. It follows a United Nations peacekeeper in Bosnia-Herzegovina as she is serenaded by two brothers with war criminal poetry and Maxfield Parrish lutes. Wellspring merges western and eastern music in a live score by composer Nikos Brisco influenced by both Greek/Ottoman urban blues and the Romani/Gypsy music of the Balkan marketplace.
Directed by Elyse Singer, Wellspring will feature the acclaimed Cafe Antarsia Ensemble. Wellspring is directly inspired by Ruth Margraff's travels to visit her mother who worked in Bosnia as a peacekeeper from 1998-2003 helping refugees return to their destroyed homes and cataloguing war crimes of local police. This radical libretto also draws inspiration from the rival troubadours and haunting gypsy ghosts of Verdi's Il Trovatore.
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