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Greetings! Let me encourage you to support American Opera Theater, a company of intensely motivated and talented artists dedicated to performing and promoting opera. In its history, AOT has given over sixty talented artists opportunities to perform and has presented a variety of innovative performances to diverse American audiences.
The Company’s 2007 calendar features a full agenda. “Acis and Galatea” in January and February marked an exciting expansion of the Company’s mission: to take opera to communities and to younger audiences typically marginalized from traditional opera. It is a traditional piece by Händel, but it was staged as a surrealist circus with shadowy, playful characters, including a hunchback ringmaster and an acrobat who sang a lovely aria while in a split and hanging upside down from a velvet rope above the stage! It was fresh and raw and unlike opera as most people know it. We were thrilled to see the shows attract families with children and earn glowing reviews. Later in 2007, the Company will revive “Ground” in the fall and in the winter present a staged version of Händel’s “Messiah.”
All of this is possible because of the generosity of music lovers like you. Please join us and make a tax-deductible contribution!
Kind regards,
Alexandra M. Gilpin
Chair of the Board of Directors
