Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera

Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera is a comic opera in one act by David T. Little to a libretto by Royce Vavrek.[1]

Commissioned for the Bard College Conservatory of Music Orchestra, the world premiere of Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera was presented at the Richard B. Fisher Center on February 26, 2010[2] performed by students in Bard's graduate vocal performance program with James Bagwell conducting. Dan Rigazzi provided stage direction.

A new chamber version of the opera was commissioned by Opera Saratoga in 2017, to be premiered at their summer 2018 festival.

Roles and role creators
  • Sir Elton John's Trainer, Celine Mogielnicki (soprano)
  • Farinelli's Trainer, Madyson Page (soprano)
  • Holy St. Francis's Trainer, Clarissa Lyons (soprano)
  • Prince Gabriel III of Belgium's Trainer's Son, Jeongcheol Cha (baritone)
  • Hans Sachs's Trainer, Jeffrey Hill (tenor)
  • Atticus Finch's Trainer, Leroy Y. Davis (bass-baritone)

Synopsis

The opera is about finch-sitting (or Vinkensport in Flemish), a sport that developed around birdsong in the late 16th century in Flanders.[3]

gollark: It would probably be necessary to fix the thing where it sometimes teleports you into walls, and you take damage until you somehow fall out.
gollark: I like the Ender IO (Minecraft mod) staff of traveling (short-range personal teleporter), so either that or a really really good computer (for purposes).
gollark: It might be interesting to consider what the graph of the connections would look like. Depending on how far apart habitats are in the network, there could still be a lot of variation between them.
gollark: I mean that you could enclose an area with protected chunks containing impassable-without-breaking-them walls.
gollark: It would only make sense if you were protecting a rather large interior area though.

References
  1. Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera, details at Boosey & Hawkes
  2. Bard College press release, "Opera Triple Bill to be Presented by the Bard College Conservatory of Music's Vocal Arts Program", 27 January 2010
  3. Hutton, Ann, "On safari for birdsong", Ulster Publishing, Inc., 25 February 2010
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