Faculty Artist Series: Theo Popov (TAC and MHL) and Robert Mollicone (Opera Studies)
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About the Event
SFCM’s Faculty Artist Series is presented as an annual concert series featuring SFCM faculty in performance. This series showcases our world-class faculty to our community and audience members in personally curated repertoire.
Program
Benjamin Britten: A Selection of Songs To Be Announced
Will Ferguson, tenor
Michael Kelly, baritone
Robert Mollicone, piano
-Intermission-
Theo Popov and Mark Campbell: A Thousand Gleaming Fires (World Premiere)
Scene 1. Their apartment.
Scene 2. Fire Island.
Scene 3. The Long Island Railroad.
Scene 4. Flying To/From
Scene 5. A Hopeless Place.
Scene 6. Flying From/To
Scene 7. Rob's Memorial
Theo Popov, music
Mark Campbell, libretto
Robert Mollicone, music direction and piano
Will Ferguson, tenor
Michael Kelly, baritone
About A Thousand Gleaming Fires
A Thousand Gleaming Fires is a song story that examines the relationship of a contemporary gay couple—Ned and Rob—by framing it through the correspondence between another gay couple—composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears. As Ned reads the letters collected in the book My Beloved One, he retraces his relationship with Rob.
Featured Artists
Theo Popov, composer
Mark Campbell, librettist
Robert Mollicone, piano
Will Ferguson, tenor
Michael Kelly, baritone