Susannah!
and the art of where to draw the line(s)
Susannah is over - what a pity! Here the pictures. Video will also come, but later, as usual :)
The main story is, that Susannah, a beautiful 19 year old woman who lives with her brother because their parents had died already, is bathing naked in a creek. A preacher comes to the town and the Elders look for a creek for baptizing. Accidently they see Susannah bathing and consider it to be a "blasphemic outrage". The whole village is shocked and they force Susannah to make a public confession. A big revival meeting takes place where the preacher encourages everbody to confess their sins (I am one of the confessers there :), but Susannah can't see a sin in her behavier and runs away. The preacher follows her and tries to make her repent. She is desperate and breaks down. The preacher wants to comfort her but suddenlty his sexual desire awakens and he sleeps with her.
When Susannah's brother learns about that, he shoots the preacher while he is baptizing in the creek. Every body is furious and wants to chase Susannah out of the valley. But she just stands there with a gun, laughing and acting totally madly, not caring any more, what people think about her. End.
1st perfprmance, make-up done by our make-up woman:
This wig is made of real hair and is worth 900$! (Now I know why we pay so much for tuition here)
and the art of where to draw the line(s)
Susannah is over - what a pity! Here the pictures. Video will also come, but later, as usual :)
For those, who I haven't told already... this was one of the best known American Operas by Charlisle Floyd, based on the story of Susannah an the Elders from the book of Daniel (Bible, Apocryphs)
our 2 Susannahs, Betsy and Elizabeth, rehearsing. Betsy (in the front) was Miss Indiana 2005
She is the one in the Videos
In the opera the story is set in the 1950s in a small very poor conservative village in the mountains of Tennessee. (New Hope Valley) My character (the director assigned different characters to each chorus singer - great!) was Grace Adams, a 75 year old widow.
our 2 Susannahs, Betsy and Elizabeth, rehearsing. Betsy (in the front) was Miss Indiana 2005She is the one in the Videos
The main story is, that Susannah, a beautiful 19 year old woman who lives with her brother because their parents had died already, is bathing naked in a creek. A preacher comes to the town and the Elders look for a creek for baptizing. Accidently they see Susannah bathing and consider it to be a "blasphemic outrage". The whole village is shocked and they force Susannah to make a public confession. A big revival meeting takes place where the preacher encourages everbody to confess their sins (I am one of the confessers there :), but Susannah can't see a sin in her behavier and runs away. The preacher follows her and tries to make her repent. She is desperate and breaks down. The preacher wants to comfort her but suddenlty his sexual desire awakens and he sleeps with her.
When Susannah's brother learns about that, he shoots the preacher while he is baptizing in the creek. Every body is furious and wants to chase Susannah out of the valley. But she just stands there with a gun, laughing and acting totally madly, not caring any more, what people think about her. End.
1st perfprmance, make-up done by our make-up woman:
after the last performance... I was invited to a Halloween party (my 1st!) and just stayed like that :
This wig is made of real hair and is worth 900$! (Now I know why we pay so much for tuition here)
More about this great opera in the video excerpt. Actually any kind of recordings are forbidden in the Opera Theatre, but Valeska still did me the favour and filmed parts of the final dress rehersal... So also I had the chance to see how we look like from far away...and I was shocked :)
I'll upload it soon...
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