Dolores Claiborne (opera)

Dolores Claiborne
Opera by Tobias Picker
LibrettistJ. D. McClatchy
LanguageEnglish
Based onStephen King's Dolores Claiborne
Premiere
September 18, 2013 (2013-09-18)
San Francisco Opera

Dolores Claiborne is an opera in two acts composed by Tobias Picker to a libretto by J. D. McClatchy. Based Stephen King's 1992 novel Dolores Claiborne, the opera was commissioned by the San Francisco Opera and premiered in San Francisco on September 18, 2013.[1][2][3][4] In 2017, the New York City Opera performed the world premiere of a new chamber version of the opera at the 59E59 Theater A, directed by Michael Capasso.[5] In 2019, it was produced by the Boston University Opera Institute.[6][7]

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role Voice type Premiere cast, September 18, 2013[8]
Conductor: George Manahan
Dolores Claiborne mezzo-soprano Patricia Racette
Vera Donovan soprano Elizabeth Futral
Joe St. George bass-baritone Wayne Tigges
Selena St. George soprano Susannah Biller
Detective Thibodeau tenor Greg Fedderly

Synopsis

Act 1

Dolores Claiborne is being interrogated about the recent death of Vera Donovan, a wealthy widow who employed Dolores as a maid for forty years. The police believe Dolores to be Vera's murderer, despite her claims to the contrary. While denying their accusations, she begins to tell the story of her life, her dead husband, and her estranged daughter. A series of flashbacks reveal that when she began working for Vera Donovan, Dolores was the victim of an abusive husband who, as she eventually learns, was also molesting their daughter. Vera and Dolores gradually develop a relationship during her first ten years of service. On the eve of a solar eclipse, Dolores confides in her employer about her husband and his abuse of both her and her daughter. Vera suggests Dolores take advantage of the up-coming eclipse to solve her problem, singing, "accidents can be an unhappy woman's best friend."

Act 2

The second act opens with Dolores preparing food and liquor for watching the solar eclipse with her husband. When her husband appears she provokes him into a rage, running off into the woods. While in pursuit, Dolores' husband falls into a well she had concealed with branches earlier. Dolores covers the well with planks, leaving her husband inside to die. Back in the present, the interrogation of Dolores continues. She is joined by Selena, her now adult daughter, who tells the police Dolores could not have murdered Vera as the two had become very close after 40 years together. Shortly after it is revealed that Vera left her entire estate to Dolores, though Dolores curses her name in response. Back at her home, Selena asks her mother what really happened to Vera Donovan. The next scene reveals that Vera took her own life, throwing herself down a flight of stairs when Dolores was not looking. In the end, Selena leaves Dolores alone yet again, still having not forgiven her for the murder of her father.[8]

Reviews

There are lovely details throughout. Early in the first act, Vera’s admonition to her maids about properly hanging the sheets to dry, set to angular jitters, opens up into sumptuous ardor, then closes again into anxiety, with an ease of transition that recalls Janacek. The collaborators have invented an ingeniously creepy nursery rhyme for Joe (the resonant, fearless bass-baritone Wayne Tigges) to sing as he molests Selena, with a translucent, percussive accompaniment.[9]

References

  1. ^ Swed, Mark (September 23, 2013). "Review: San Francisco Opera's Dolores Claiborne moody but conventional". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  2. ^ Kosman, Joshua (September 19, 2013). "Opera review: Dolores Claiborne". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 27, 2014
  3. ^ Rowe, Georgia. "Dolores Claiborne". Opera News. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  4. ^ Martinfield, Sean (September 25, 2013). "Tobias Picker's Dolores Claiborne – A Daring World Premier at San Francisco Opera". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  5. ^ "New York City Opera Presents Dolores Claiborne this Month", BroadwayWorld, September 28, 2017
  6. ^ "Tobias Picker & Janacek Headline Boston University Opera Institute Spring 2019 Operas". Opera Wire. February 21, 2019. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  7. ^ "CFA Tackles Tobias Picker Opera Based on a Stephen King Novel". Boston University. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  8. ^ a b Schott Music. Tobias Picker: Dolores Claiborne. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  9. ^ Woolfe, Zachary (September 19, 2013). "From the Page to the Stage, a Confession Receives an Operatic Turn". The New York Times. Retrieved May 27, 2014.

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