Annual American Composers Update

Harold Blumenfeld

Harold Blumenfeld resides in St. Louis, MO but will spend spring 1998 in residence at the Bogliasco Foundation Centro de Studii Liguri, in Italy, to work on Last of the Borgias, an opera in two acts (libretto by Charles Kondek after the Klabund novel and Victor Hugo play).

Premieres

The Des Moines Metro Opera Summer Festival, at the Black Box Theater, included the premiere of Breakfast Waltzes, Bagatelle-Opera in One Act (libretto by Kondek), with Paula Homer, stage director; Michael Borowitz, conductor; and Janara Kellerman, Andrea Wilkomirski, Cheryl Shenefelt, and Jason Scarcella, singers, July 12, 1997.

Publications

Vers Satanique after Charles Baudelaire; in three parts, for baritone, soprano, and large orchestra; MMB Music, Inc.

Recordings

Seasons in Hell -- A Life of Rimbaud (libretto by Kondek); Opera Division, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, Gerhard Samuel conducting; Albany Records, October 1997.

Further Information

For more complete information, see Harold Blumenfeld's entry in our Composers Bureau Online.