Savoyards Ithaca will perform Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA): May 4 to 6.Savoyards Ithaca will perform Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA): May 4 to 6.
Shows will be staged in Martha Hamblin Hall on the third floor at:
Tickets ($15 for general admission, $10 for students) are available at the door or online at www.savoyardsithaca.org.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s most joyful work, The Gondoliers celebrates youth and renewal. Sullivan’s score weds English comic opera and Neapolitan folk music, while Gilbert’s book satirizes republicanism, capitalism, and tourism. Director Ellen Jackson, a graduate of the Ithaca College School of Music (Music Performance, Voice '15), examines the paradox of modernity: In the cultural and political clash between old and new worlds, can anything ever really become "modern"?
The young bride of the heir to the island kingdom of Barataria arrives in Venice to join her husband. Unfortunately, he cannot be identified, since as infant he was entrusted to the care of a drunken gondolier, who mixed up the prince with his own son. Until he can be identified, both brothers must reign jointly. A carnival of misrule follows, but in the end proper order is restored.
The cast features such IC students and alumni as Benjamin Bartell (Theatre Studies '15), Seamus Buxton (Music Performance, Voice '20), Alexia Castle (Music Education, Voice), Lucrezia Ceccarelli (Music Performance, Voice '19), Magdalyn Chauby (Music Performance Education, Voice '18), Doug Mathews (Cinema and Photography '90), Nicholas Paraggio (Music Education, Trumpet '19), Marshall Pokrentowski (Music Education, Voice '19), Evan Sacco (Music Performance Education, Voice '21), and Liz Stamerra (Music Performance, Voice '19). Nicole Cronin (Music Education, Voice '19) directs the vocal ensemble. Mary Holzhauer, lecturer in the Department of Music Performance, accompanies on the piano.
The Community School of Music and the Arts, 330 East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (State Street), is located in downtown Ithaca, one block east of the Commons. Free weekend parking is available on MLK/State Street, Seneca Way, and Aurora Street, as well as the Seneca Street and Green Street Garages.
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