WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2016 – 3PM – CINEMA VILLAGE – 22 EAST 12TH STREET – $5
VILLA DIODATI, a Chamber-Opera/Film from Bank Street Films & Albany Records DVD
Official Selection of the 2016 WINTER FILM AWARDS INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Music by Mira J Spektor, Lyrics by Colette Inez, also by Byron, Shelley, Spektor & Wordsworth
Why did Mary Shelley create Frankenstein’s Monster, 200 years ago, in a cold Swiss lakeside villa??
Villa Diodati is a Chamber-Opera that sings of love, death, ghosts & games…
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Allan Kozinn (In Concert) “…attractive and tonal and recalled some of the more gracious music in Bernstein’s ‘Trouble Tahiti’…Particularly appealing was a duet between Mary and Percy Shelley: ‘There is no heaven but my love’. ”
TALKIN’ BROADWAY: (Staged in NYMTF) “The unabashedly operatic music wraps you in the warm embrace of the writings timeless romanticism. You’ll probably hear no better musical all this year than Villa Diodati.”
Directed by Rob Urbinati
Produced by Gabriel Nussbaum
Starring Jeremy J. Moore, Mike Longo, Rachel Arky, Hillary Schranze, Angela Leson and Rachel Zadcoff
For more information, contact mirajspektor@nullearthlink.net
