If I Were You (2019)
- Composer
- Librettist
- Source Material
- Loosely based on the 1947 novel Si j’étais vous… by Julien Green
- Arias
- Score
Bill Holab Music
Get It Here- SYNOPSIS
In this modern telling of the Faust story, the devil (Brittomara) makes a bargain with a dispirited young writer named Fabian Hart. He is given the supernatural power to move his soul and identity from person to person for as long as he likes; but, if he ever returns to his original body, he will die and the devil will collect his soul. On his precarious journey to win the heart of his beloved, he leaves a trail of human wreckage and hollow shells. In the end, will he choose to live forever as someone else, or die for love as himself?
- PREMIERE INFORMATION
San Francisco's Merola Opera Program, 2019
Artists:
- Conductor - Nicole Paiement
- Director - Keturah Stickann
- Brittomara: Cara Collins & Brennan Blankenship, mezzo-sopranos
- Fabian: Michael Day & Nicholas Huff, tenors
- Diana: Esther Tonea & Anne-Marie MacIntosh, sopranos
- Selena: Patricia Westley & Elisa Sunshine, sopranos
- Putnam: Rafael Porto, bass-baritone
- Paul: Timothy Murray, baritone
- David: Brandon Scott Russell, tenor
- Rachel: Edith Grossman, mezzo-soprano
- Jonathan: Edward Laurenson, baritone
- Two Women: Chelsea Lehnea & Amber R. Monroe
