FULL OF MICE AND MEN (Carlisle Floyd) Livermore CA 2023 Matthew Pearce, Robert Mellon, Véronique Filloux, Chad Somers

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: OF MICE AND MEN  
• Composer: Floyd Carlisle   
• Libretto: Based on the novella by John Steinbeck    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Bankhead Theater, Livermore, California  
• Recorded: October 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Matthew Pearce, Robert Mellon, Véronique Filloux, Chad Somers, Kirk Eichelberger, Matthew Worth, Joseph Meyers, Caleb Alexander
• Conductor: Alexander Katsman  
• Orchestra: Livermore Valley Opera Orchestra  
• Chorus: Livermore Valley Opera Chorus  
• Chorus Master: Bruce Olstad  
• Stage Director: Marc Jacobs  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Livermore Valley Opera  
• Date Published: 2024  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Carlisle Floyd, arguably the greatest of America’s 20th Century opera composers, adapts to the operatic stage Nobel Prize winning John Steinbeck’s powerful novella detailing a tragic story of two displaced migrant ranch workers in California during the Great Depression. Their dream of owning their own land one day ends instead in tragedy. The drama and powerful music will grip your heartstrings and the opera’s plea for compassion and hope is as timely now as when John Steinbeck wrote his novella in 1937. In the opinion of the late composer himself, this is his greatest operatic achievement.