Robert Orth (baritone), Brenda Harris (soprano), Robert Frankenberry (tenor), Matthew Curran (bass-baritone), Elaine Valby (mezzo-soprano) & Gilda Lyons (soprano)
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Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon’s first, and highly successful, opera is based on the life of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin (Welsh for ‘Shining Brow’), the home he built for himself in Wisconsin.
Popular with audiences and critics alike, Shining Brow has been hailed as a masterpiece full of fresh ideas, and is frequently performed.
"Hagen has a gift for the big tune, and he serves up some beauties” New York Times
“Its libretto is unusually inventive and poetic” Capital Times
Official Shining Brow Website: www.daronhagen.com/brow
Daron Aric Hagen: Shining Brow
Prologue: So much so, that even now I flinch… (Sullivan, Waiter)
Prologue: So the poetry of architecture… (Draftsmen)
Act I Scene 1: Some are destined to stand… (Wright, Mamah, Edwin, Draftsmen)
Act I Scene 1: The music, so… the music of architecture… (Draftsmen)
Act I Scene 1: Arietta: And her scent, was it musk? (Wright)
Act I Scene 1: Aria: If not for me, then for the children's sake… (Catherine, Wright)
Act I Scene 1: Aria: Each room opens into the next, Catherine… (Wright, Sullivan)
Act I Scene 1: Interlude: Sullivan Variations
Act I Scene 1: When I woke up this morning… (Workmen)
Act I Scene 2: Far be it from me to suggest… (Women, Workmen)
Act I Scene 2: Arietta: Three long days and three long nights… (Edwin, Workmen)
Act I Scene 2: Aria: The truth is that my mouth is full of nails (Edwin)
Act I Scene 2: They say the soul weighs about the same as… (Workmen, Mamah, Wright)
Act I Scene 2: Melodrama: Be it mud hut, mansion or mosque… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin)
Act I Scene 2: Trio: For three long months I've tried to ease… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin)
Act I Scene 2: Interlude: She sweeps us off our feet …, "Hymn to Nature" (Chorus)
Act I Scene 3: …back into earth and air (Mamah, Chorus)
Act I Scene 3: Frank, how much longer must I endure…? (Mamah)
Act II: Prelude
Act II: So much, so much, so much, so much, so… (Townspeople, Reporters, Guests)
Act II: Sextet: With a tally ho and view halloo… (Reporters, Townswomen)
Act II: Aria: Ladies and Gentlemen… (Wright, Chorus)