Auditions (with Artistic Director Harriet March Page, composer-pianist Frank Johnson, Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel veterans Jamie Samanth Lee and Jacqueline Goldgorin, stage-manager Gigi Walker, Flora Agharanya, and Melody), at
Diablo Valley College
Music Building, for
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Fresh Voices XVII Festival of New Works: Feet First Into the Fire! (8pm, Saturdays, August 5 / 12, Bay Area Stage, 551 Broadway, Vallejo; 7:30pm, Saturday, August 19, St. Alban's Church, Albany [CA]; 4pm, Sunday, August 29, Community Music Center, Capp Street, San Francisco), including
Don Hardwick,
Patrick Brancato,
Valerie Salcedo, and Ryann Swale (with John Bilotta) -- who look and sound perfect respectively for Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and Vladimir Putin in 2017: An Opera in Multiple Unnecessary Acts, Op. 261 (2017) --
as well as Flora Mendoza,
Ashten Smith, and
Teresa Foss -- who would be ideal (along with Patrick) for the excerpts from Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104...
***
The day
begins by
getting down
there, and
continues with a return,
on the 85th day of summer,
high down 2 to 98 --
first temperature below 100 after 8 days at or above
(Pleasant Hill and Fairfield, 88) --
to finish The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel III - Calandrino, Bruno, and Buffalmacco Go In Quest of the Heliotrope beside the Mugnone (15 pages total)...
