Received in the mail this morning : 'Elmer Gantry' (Aldridge) and 'Wuthering Heights' (Floyd) from Milwaukee

This Wednesday morning, I have received two program books published by Florentine Opera in Milwaukee for the following operas :

- Robert Aldridge : Elmer Gantry, first performance on March 13th, 2015 ;
- Carlisle Floyd : Wuthering Heights, first performance on January 9th, 2015.

Program books are 50 and 38 pages brochures.

The first contains :

- Revival - Elmer Gantry returns ! by Leann Davis Alspaugh ;
- The Bully Pulpit - Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, by Leann Davis Alspaugh ;
- the complete cast ;
- the detailed synopsis ;
- detailed biographies of the composer, the librettist Herschel Garfein, the director Frank Kelley and the conductor Christopher Larkin ;
- biographies of the singers (all biographies with headshots).

This opera was already performed there in March 2010 and a recording has been released by Naxos in its American Opera Classics collection :

The second contains :

- the complete cast ;
- synopsis ;
- detailed biographies of the composer, the conductor Joseph Mechavich ;
- biographies of the singers (all biographies with headshots).

Scanned covers of all program books I have in my collection are in this flickr folder.

New productions of recent operas

Here are listed a few world premières and a few new productions of recent operas :

- Johannes Harneit : Abends am Fluss and Hochwasser, in Heidelberg (February 2015), conducted by Johannes Harneit, directed by Peter Konwitschny ;
- Johannes Maria Staud : Die Antilope, in Luzern (September 2014), conducted by Howard Arman, directed by Dominique Mentha ;
- Philip Glass : Akhnaten, directed by Nanine Linning, in Heidelberg (September 2014), revival ;
- Jake Heggie : Another Sunrise and For a Look or a Touch in Braunschweig (May 2015), conducted by Burkhard Bauche ;
- Bernard Herrmann : Wuthering Heights, in Braunschweig (April 2015), conducted by Enrico Delamboye, directed by Philipp Kochheim ;
- Charles Wuorinen : Brokeback Mountain, in Aachen (December 2014), conducted by Kazem Abdullah, directed by Ludger Engels. The opera was first performed in January 2014 in Madrid.