Art Project Grant
Art Project Grant
Support for a new production of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville".
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Emily Fasbender: student liaison, visual artist
Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor
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The Northern Lights Opera is the centerpiece of the NLMF; it will return to Italian Opera in 2018, presenting Rossini's "Barber of Seville" in 3 locations. We seek funding to support new construction of the set, for costumes, and props. Sets must be constructed to travel to three locations: Aurora, Chisholm and Ely, each venue with a different size stage. Ours is a visual society, and in a community which sees little live opera or theatre, we believe that the production values need to be high to provide a high quality arts experience for the public. Sets will be designed by Bart Healy, and built by Aurora carpenters, Alvin Rintala and Arthur Cherro. Costumes will be rented. Building a new production requires good design, appropriate for the Stage Director's vision, and it needs to be built in a timely way, on schedule and on budget. Our design and building team has worked together for many years, and it is rare when there are cost overruns for this aspect of the festival. We try to maximize the production values, and still find a way to come in on budget. If the set and the costumes are beautiful, if the audience responds well to the production; if the set looks good in three different halls, and can be managed well by the crew in these various venues; and if it comes in on budget, we will feel we have been successful.
The opera was well-staged and well rehearsed. The cast was extremely strong and both the stage Director and the Music Director pulled together a fast and very funny show in three weeks. Ticket sales exceeded expectations by 30%. The set was constructed by Aurora carpenters, Arthur Cherro and Alvin Rintala, using the bus garage at Mesabi East as their workshop. The set came in at budget. The set was designed by Bart Healy to fit into three different theatres: Mesabi East's Veda Zuponcic Auditorium; Chisholm Auditorium, and Ely's Washington Auditorium. The set was built on time and was considered to be the best set we have had at Northern Lights Music Festival. It was colorful, fun, and worked well with the costumes we had rented from Malabar. A new costume mistress worked within budget and handled a big job competently, especially for her first attempt at this position. The difficulties of touring to three locations was handled well by a young crew.
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