Nightcaps
AGAR, in collaboration with Second Stage | Amherst, presents Nightcaps, a new musical drama by lyricist Brooke Vandervelde and composer Richard Rose. Nightcaps is being developed in three workshops on November 12, 2022, February 18 and April 1, 2023. Workshop performances are free and open to the public.
For the schedule and more information:
https://www.nightcaps.show/
For the schedule and more information:
https://www.nightcaps.show/
Richard Rose’s recent opera Monte and Pinky was performed by Capitol Opera Richmond at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. A former teacher, Brooke Vandervelde is now the music director at Ascension Episcopal Church, Amherst, where she also leads a bi-weekly Gospel Jam. Her husband John, who will design the physical environment for Nightcaps, taught a shop program in Amherst County Public Schools for twenty years.
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ANNOUNCING AUDITIONS for WORKSHOPS of NIGHTCAPS A new musical drama by
Brooke Vandervelde and Richard Rose presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response |
Nightcaps is set at a small historically White college in the upper South; the action moves between 2018, 1910, and 1940. We are looking for classically trained student vocalist with some experience in opera who can devote one or more Saturdays in 2022-2023 to workshopping a scene. Workshops will be held 9 am-5 pm at Second Stage | Amherst (194 2nd Street, Amherst VA) on the following Saturdays:
- November 12
- January 14
- February 18
- April 1
Auditions will be held for the following parts:
To schedule an audition time, contact Brooke at 804-922-2446 or rivula@gmail.com.
- Patrice: Black tenor; college student
- Coale: White baritone; college student
- June: Black soprano; recent college graduate
- Arthur: Black bass or baritone; recent college graduate
- Adam: White baritone; college student, football player
- Terence: White tenor; college student
- Tom: White baritone; college student
- Judah: Black alto or mezzo; college student
- Sasha: White soprano; college student
- Pete: White baritone; college student; international student
To schedule an audition time, contact Brooke at 804-922-2446 or rivula@gmail.com.
Workshop performers will be paid and will receive travel reimbursement and lunch. We will develop just one scene at each workshop. Advance preparation for the workshops is not expected: come ready to work hard and enjoy the experience of developing a promising new work with friends and colleagues.
Listen to the score at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscore and check out the script at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscript.
Listen to the score at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscore and check out the script at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscript.
Richard Rose’s recent opera Monte and Pinky was performed by
Capitol Opera Richmond at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. Brooke Vandervelde has retired from a career teaching classics and is now music director at Ascension Episcopal Church, Amherst, where she also
leads a bi-weekly Gospel Jam.
AGAR is a 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to promoting the arts
primarily in Amherst and Greater Lynchburg.
