Product Description
An Opera in Two Acts. Libretto by Herschel Garfein based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
Featuring:
Keith Phares (Elmer Gantry), Patricia Risley (Sharon Falconer), Vale Rideout (Frank Shallard), Frank Kelley (Eddie Fislinger) & Heather Buck (Lulu Baines)
Florentine Opera Chorus, Florentine Opera Company & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Boggs
Set just before World War I, Sinclair Lewis’s incendiary novel Elmer Gantry tells a story of old-time religion, illicit romance and revenge.
Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s operatic adaptation is a “marvellous amalgam of toe-tapping accessibility” Opera News full of hymns, gospel songs, marches and dance, evoking the period in a score which echoes Gershwin and Copland.
This all-American production combines a first-rate cast of singers and a world-class orchestra for “an intoxicating experience” The New York Times.
