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A Dialogue on Time upon the New Millennium
As a result of his first opera "Inferno", Mr. Soluri was commissioned by Gordon Ostrowski and the Manhattan School of Music Opera Studio to write A Dialogue on Time upon the New Millennium, the finale for their Fall 1999 Opera Scenes Program called "A Time Capsule" celebrating time and the new millennium directed by Gordon Ostrowski with conductor Gary Wedow of New York City Opera.
Cast of Characters
The scene starts with a scenario where an opera director, conductor, stage crew and composer in the opening skit invoke the question of time. It is then commented on by the cast of characters from many different operas, from early to modern and spanning hundreds of years, but each remains in character from the original operas.
 I. Opening skit:
Conductor, Director, Composer & Stage Manager
II. Scene:
Time, Guardian Angel, Wordly Life, The World, Pleasure, Soul, Body & Intellect
from: "Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo" by Cavalierei
Leporello, Donna Elvira, Donna Anna, Don Ottavio, Masetto & Zerlina
from: "Don Giovanni" by Mozart
Romeo & Juliette
from: "Romeo et Juliette" by Gounod
Orlovsky, Adele, Rosalinda, Eisenstein & Falke
from: "Die Fledermaus" by J. Strauss
Marschallin, Octavian & Sophie
from: "Der RosenKavalier" by R. Strauss
Tom Rakewell, Nick Shadow & Anne Truelove
from: "The Rakes Progress" by Stravinsky
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