The Ghosts of Gatsby
Cleveland Premiere
The Music Box Supper Club
Friday, January 10, 7:30pm
w/ a 3-course Prix Fixe Dinner
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Sunday, January 12, 3:00pm
Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire's powerful new opera
is 1st place winner of the 2019 National Opera Association (NOA) Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition.
Presented in a co-production with Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.
BW serves as institutional host for the NOA Conference 2020 to be held in Cleveland, OH January 8- 11, 2020.
This production will launch the Cleveland Opera Theater
{NOW} Fest ’20 planned in conjunction with the NOA Conference.
Join us before the Friday, Jan. 10th Performance for a 3-course dinner
Music Box Supper Club is offering a 3-course, prix fixe menu served at your table / seats for the opera in the upstairs concert Reservations are required - please arrive by 6:15pm to complete dinning before the performance.​
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Click below for more info about the January 10 Opera Dinner and Performance.
About the Opera
The Cleveland premiere of this new one-act opera by Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire. A tale of marriage and madness.
Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald are in the French Riviera, 1924. Scott, obsessed by work on The Great Gatsby, is jealous of Zelda’s extramarital affair, while Zelda is smothered by the alcoholic Scott. In a fit of rage, Scott drinks himself into a stupor. She has visions of her younger and older selves. As the argument with Scott resumes and intensifies, Scott strikes Zelda and she attempts to dismiss the apparitions as unreal; but the oldest Zelda dismisses her. Zelda wakes; the entire scene has been a dream on her deathbed, locked in a burning insane asylum.
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The Ghosts of Gatsby is 1st place winner of the 2019 National Opera Association (NOA) Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition is a co-production between Baldwin Wallace Conservatory and Cleveland Opera Theater. BW will serve as institutional host for the NOA Conference 2020 to be held in Cleveland, OH January 8- 11, 2020. This production will also launch the Cleveland Opera Theater {NOW} Fest ’20 in residence at BW and planned in conjunction with the NOA Conference.