December 1, 2017 8:00pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall
THE TRIAL AT ROUEN
By Norman Dello Joio
Sung in English
Produced in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
WORLD PREMIERE
2021 GRAMMY® Nominee for Best Opera Recording.
In 1950 Boston based Pulitzer Prize winning composer Norman Dello Joio premiered his first opera The Triumph of Saint Joan. Unhappy with the results he withdrew the work. Still fascinated with the subject he was commissioned by the NBC Television Opera Theatre to produce an original 75-minute opera for television. The resulting work in two acts, The Trial at Rouen, premiered on April 8, 1956, on NBC. In collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera’s performance marks the first time The Trial at Rouen will be performed off screen and on stage in front of a live audience. The most condensed of all the operas of our season, it focuses on the period of the imprisonment and trial of Joan. The concert will open with Dello Joio’s most popular work The Triumph of Saint Joan Symphony a purely orchestral work based on the material from his first Joan of Arc opera.
“Make no mistake, this was an important evening in 20th-centry American opera performance.”
–the boston musical intelligencer
Cast and Creative
Heather Buck
JOAN
Stephen Powell
PIERRE CAUCHON
Luke Scott
FATHER JULIEN
Ryan Stoll
THE JAILER
Jeremy Ayres Fisher
SOLDIER
Gil Rose
CONDUCTOR
PRODUCTION TEAM
Brooke Stanton…Costume Designer
Rachel Padula-Shufelt…Hair and Make-up Designer
