IU Summer Music Festival 2007

She Loves Me
by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick
presented by IU Opera Theater
Guest Conductor: Dale Rieling
Stage Director: Vincent Liotta
Set Designer: Robert O’Hearn

Introduction | Synopsis
Biographies | Cast List
Orchestra | Photos

“For lush musical-comedy romanticism, it’s hard to beat She Loves Me.” —TheaterMania.com

“She Loves Me is the most sweetly romantic musical imaginable, the theatrical equivalent of a hot-fudge sundae with two spoons.” —The Wall Street Journal

FINAL WEEKEND: August 1, 2
8 p.m. | Musical Arts Center
With Opera Insights at 7 p.m.

IU NEWS ROOM ARTICLE
IU Opera Theater presents ‘Best musical comedy ever written’
Vincent Liotta is well-known in the opera world for co-founding the renowned Utah Festival Opera and for his stage direction with companies ranging from the Chicago Lyric Opera to the Vienna Staatspoer. This summer, though, Liotta is most thrilled not about a classic opera, but about an uplifting musical comedy, She Loves Me, presented by IU Opera Theater as part of the 2008 Indiana University Summer Music Festival. Full Story

Enjoy the story of two feuding clerks who find solace in their anonymous romantic pen pals, who are none other than each other! This wonderful comedy is familiar to many of us: it has been adapted to the films Shop Around the Corner (starring Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart), The Good Old Summertime (featuring Judy Garland and Van Johnson), and, most recently, You've Got Mail (with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks).

Opera at the BCT:
¡Únicamente la Verdad!(Only the Truth!)

by Composer Gabriela Ortiz & Artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres
featuring the IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: Carmen Helena Téllez
Stage Director: Chía Patiño
Production & Responsive Visuals Designer: Konstantinos Mavromichalis
Rodrigo Sigal and Francisco Colasanto: Sound Designers
August 8, 8 p.m. | Buskirk-Chumley Theater
August 9, 8 p.m. | Buskirk-Chumley Theater
FREE

This “video-opera” encompasses elements from contemporary music video, tabloid journalism, analytical documentary, popular Mexican music, and, of course, opera. The libretto is based on a news piece which appeared in the Mexican tabloid La alarma! about the return of the real Camelia "la tejana" (woman from Texas) and reconstructs her “true” story of trafficking marijuana and becoming a murderer for love.

Two complementary events celebrate this World Premiere:

Composing the New Works for Voice
Workshop led by renowned composer Sven-David Sandstrom
29 July - 2nd August, 2008
Sweeney Hall and MA066

Borderland Imaginations: Contemporary Opera, Media, and New Artistic Expressions
Colloquium led by music theorist Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
8 - 9 August, 2008
1:30 - 4:30 pm. Sweeney Hall (Simon Music Building)

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SUMMER FESTIVAL!