Goat Hall Productions
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Harriet March Page, Artistic Director
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Fresh Voices XVI
Memories and Desires
8:15pm, Fridays-Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27, 2016
Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA
JOSTEIN STAHLHEIM / JOHN G. BILOTTA
ROSETTA'S STONE (2015, Oded Ben-Horin / John F. McGrew)
A Neuroscience Opera in Two Acts (Duration - 40 minutes)
ACT I: Scene 1 - A Well-Functioning Cafe
Scene 2 - The Music Lesson
ACT II: Scene 1 - A Poorly-Functioning Cafe
Scene 2 - Deterioration - A Memory - Rosetta's Stone
15-minute intermission
MARK ALBURGER (b. 1957)
ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL, Op. 232
An Opera in Three Husbands and Multiple Lovers (All Famous)
(2016, after Wikipedia Alma Mahler, and links) (Duration - 70 minutes)
PROLOGUE - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER
I. 1879 - ANNA SOFIE BERGEN (Alma's Mother)
II. 1880 - JULIUS VIKTOR BERGER (Alma's Mother's 1st Lover)
III. 1881 - MARGARETHE (GRETE) JULIE SCHINDLER (Alma's 1st Half Sister)
IV. 1882 - OMA BERGEN (Photograph I / Alma's Grandmother)
V. 1883 - MANON AUGUSTE PAULINE SCHARMWEBER GROPIUS
(Alma's Second Husband)
VI. 1884 - EMIL JAKOB SCHINDLER (Alma's Father)
VII. 1885 - GUSTAV MAHLER (Alma's First Husband)
VIII. 1886 - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Constant Lover)
IX. 1887 - PRINCE RUDOLF (Alma's Father's Employer)
X. 1888 - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Photograph II / Alma's Portrait)
XI. 1889 - CARL MOLL (Alma's Mother's 2nd Lover)
XII. 1890 - FRANZ VIKTOR WERFEL (Alma's 3rd Husband)
XIII. 1891 - GEZA ZICHY (Mahler's Rival)
XIV. 1892 - SYLT (Alma's First Compositional Efforts / Father's Death)
XV. 1893 - ALMA / SOPHIE / GRETE (Photograph III / Alma's Family Portrait)
XVI. 1894 - SCHULE (Alma's Education)
XVII. 1895 - MAX BURCKHARD / OTTO MAHLER
(Alma's 1st Lover / Gustav Mahler's Brother's Suicide)
XVIII. 1895 - JOSEF LABOR (Alma's 1st Teacher)
XIX. 1897 - GUSTAV KLIMT (Alma's 2nd Lover)
XX. 1898 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (Alma's Artistic Associations)
XXI. 1899 - MARIA MOLL (Photograph IV / Alma's 2nd Half Sister)
XXII. 1900 - ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Alma's 2nd Teacher / 3rd Lover)
XXIII. 1901 - GUSTAV MAHLER (Alma's 1st Marriage)
ACT I - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER
XXIV. 1902 - RICHARD STRAUSS / MARIA ANNA "PUTZI"
(Mahler's Friend / Alma's 1st Daughter)
XXV. 1903 - HAUPTMAN / PFITZNER / P. STRAUSS / GOLDMARK / CHARPENTIER
(Viennese Life)
XXVI. 1904 - ANNA JUSTINE "GUCKI" / GABRILOWITSCH
(In the Country / Alma's 2nd Daughter)
XXVII. 1905 - FELIX MUHR / GUSTAV MAHLER (In the Theatre)
XXVIII. 1906 - ALMA / MARIA / ANNA / GUSTAV (In the Home)
XXIX. 1907 - NEW YORK / MARIA ANNA /STRAVINSKY / SIBELIUS / CARUSO
(In the City)
XXX. 1908 - TOBLACH (Mahler's Premonitions of Death)
XXXI. 1909 - RODIN / TOSCANINI (Mahler's Fame)
XXXII. 1910 - WALTER GROPIUS / SIGMUND FREUD (Alma's 1st Affair)
XXXIII. 1911 - MAHLER / FRAENKEL / SCHREKER
(Mahler's Death / Bruckner's 3rd Symphony)
XXXIV. 1912 - PAUL KAMMERER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lovers)
XXXV. 1913 - ANNA MAHLER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Kokoschka's Paintings / Bride of the Wind)
XXXVI. 1914 - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA / HANS PFITZNER (World War I)
XXXVII. 1915 - SIEGFRIED OCHS / WALTER GROPIUS / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Alma's 2nd Marriage)
ACT II - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS
XXXVIII. 1916 - MANON GROPIUS (Alma's 3rd Daughter)
XXXIX. 1917 - FRANZ WERFEL (Alma's 2nd Affair)
XL. 1918 - HULDA RESERL / HERMINE MOOS / MARTIN WERFEL
(Kokoschka's Design / Alma's Son)
XLI. 1919 - THE PUPPET (Alma's Image)
XLII. 1920 - GROPIUS / PROSTITUTE / FESTIVAL (Alma's Divorce)
XLIII. 1921 - SCHOENBERG / RAVEL / BERG / MILHAUD / POULENC (Alma's Soirees)
XLIV. 1922 - RUPERT KOLLER / ERNST KRENEK (Alma's Sons-in-Law)
XLV. 1923 - ERNST KRENEK / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lover's Opera)
XLVI. 1924 - SCHOENBERG / WEBERN / BERG / KRENEK / SHOSTAKOVICH
(Mahler's 10th Symphony)
XLVII. 1925 - ALBAN BERG / HANNA WERFEL FUCHS-ROBETTIN (Alma's Letters)
XLVIII. 1926 - RUPERT JOSEPH / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA / PAUL KAMMERER
(Alma's Inspiration)
XLIX. 1927 - FRANZ WERFEL / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Indecision)
L. 1928 - ALBAN BERG / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Kokoschka's Letters)
ACT III - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL
LI. 1929 - FRANZ WERFEL / MANON GROPIUS (Alma's 3rd Marriage)
LII. 1930 - ANNA MAHLER / PAUL VON ZSOLNAY (Anna's 3rd Marriage)
LIII. 1931 - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW / PAUL VON ZSOLNAY (Anna's 3rd Separation)
LIV. 1932 - THEO JOHANNES HOLLNSTEINER (Alma's 3rd Affair)
LV. 1933 - HEINRICH BRUENING / ADOLF HITLER (Alma's World)
LVI. 1934 - ELIAS CANETTI / MAID (Manon's Polio)
LVII. - 1935 MANON GROPIUS / ALBAN BERG (Manon / Berg's Deaths)
LVIII. 1936 - JOHANNES HOLLNSTEINER / KURT SCHUSCHNIGG (Manon's Eulogy)
LIX. 1937 - WERFEL / ZUCKMAYER / VON PAPEN / KOKOSCHKA
(Alma's Farewell Party)
LX. 1938 - ANSCHLUSS (Alma's Departure)
***
Wow! Another exciting show,
on the 154 day of summer,
high flaming up 2 more to 104
(97 / 61 / 19 days 80 / 90 / 100+) --
99 in Walnut Creek --
returning thereafter to compose The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXXIII. 1951 - Arnold Schoenberg / Anna Mahler (Schoenberg's Death / Anna's Mask).
