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ADAMO, M.: Little Women (Houston Grand Opera, 2000)

Little Women
Composer: Adamo, Mark
Librettist/Text Author: Adamo, Mark
Conductor: Summers, Patrick
Orchestra: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

Alma March: Jones, Gwendolyn
Amy: Lloyd, Margaret
Beth: Tappan, Stacey
Cecilia March: Ciesinski, Katherine
Friedrich Bhaer: Yuan, Chen-Ye
Gideon March: Maddalena, James
Jo: Novacek, Stephanie
John Brooke: Belcher, Daniel
Laurie: Shelton, Chad
Meg: DiDonato, Joyce
Mr. Dashwood: Parker, Derrick

Set Designer: McCollum, Christopher
Costume Designer: Graff, Melissa
Lighting Designer: Plevan, David M.
Stage Director: Webster, Peter
Television Director: Large, Brian

Venue: Wortham Theater Center, Texas
Playing Time: 01:54:53
Catalogue Number: 2.110613
UPC: 747313561353

Based on Louisa May Alcott's enduringly popular novel about the adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in civil-war era New England, Mark Adamo's opera Little Women has been performed in more than 70 national and international engagements since its 1998 premiere by Houston Grand Opera and has achieved the status of an American classic. This recording, with a superb cast expertly directed for television, vividly brings to life an opera that The New Yorker hailed as 'A beautifully crafted work', brilliantly molding Alcott's tale into operatic form'.

Part 1
Little Women
1 Opening Credits
Prologue
2 Four little chests all in a row (Jo, Voices)
3 Laurie! - The very same, madam (Jo, Laurie)
4 Aria: Couldn't I unbake the breads? (Jo)
Act I
5 Scene 1: Barristers! (Jo, Amy, Beth, Meg, Laurie)
6 Scene 1: Again we meet to celebrate (Amy, Beth, Meg, Jo)
7 Scene 1: Major, minor (Amy, Beth, Jo, Alma, Laurie)
8 Scene 1: Truth or Fabrication? (Amy, Beth, Meg, Jo, Laurie)
9 Scene 1: Supper, half an hour! (Alma, Amy, Beth, Meg, Jo, Laurie)
10 Scene 1: Aria: Perfect as we are (Jo)
11 Scene 2: Rigmarole? (Meg, Jo, Laurie, Brooke)
12 Scene 2: Aria: There was a knight (Brooke)
13 Scene 2: Oh, this cannot be borne (Jo, Laurie, Meg, Brooke, Beth)
14 Scene 2: She that is down need fear no fall (Beth, Alma, Meg, Gideon, Jo)
15 Scene 2: Our own Fanny Mendelssohn! (Amy, Jo, Meg, Gideon, Alma, Laurie, Brooke)
16 Scene 2: Mr. John Brooke (Meg, Cecilia, Brooke, Jo)
17 Scene 2: Interlude: Long may our comrades prosper well (Voices, Brooke, Meg, Jo)
18 Scene 2: Aria: Things change, Jo (Meg)
19 Scene 2: I understand (Jo, Beth, Amy, Laurie)
20 Scene 3: Aunt? Now, I haven't done any shading yet (Amy, Cecilia, Alma, Gideon, Meg, Brooke, Jo, Amy)
21 Scene 3: Recitative and Duet: We stand together (Alma, Gideon)
22 Scene 3: Jupiter Ammon! (Laurie, Brooke, Alma, Gideon, Cecilia, Beth)
23 Scene 3: Recitative and Quartet: We stand together (Beth, Meg, Jo, Alma, Gideon, Cecilia, Laurie, Brooke)
24 Scene 3: Duet and Ensemble: Things change - We stand together (Jo, Laurie, Meg, Brooke, Alma, Gideon, Amy)
Act II
25 Scene 1: Cockling? (Jo, Dashwood)
26 Scene 1: Ensemble: Letter Scene (Jo, Meg, Brooke, Alma, Gideon, Amy, Beth, Laurie)
27 Scene 2: Nocturne (Jo, Bhaer, Amy, Laurie)
28 Scene 2: Lied: "Kennst du das Land? " (Bhaer, Jo)
29 Scene 2: Aria: Do you know the land? (Bhaer)
30 Scene 2: Fantasia (Jo, Bhaer, Alma)
31 Scene 3: She's asked for you (Beth, Jo, Gideon)
32 Scene 3: Aria: Have peace, Jo (Beth, Jo)
33 Scene 3: She who is down need fear no fall (Voices)
34 Scene 4: That's the problem with solitaire (Cecilia, Jo)
35 Scene 4: Aria: Joy beyond measure, Mother! (Amy, Laurie)
36 Scene 4: She sounds very happy (Jo, Cecilia)
37 Scene 4: Duet: You, alone (Cecilia, Jo)
38 Scene 5: Soliloquy: So the days go by (Jo, Voices, Laurie, Amy, Beth, Meg)
39 Scene 5: Quartet and Finale: Let me look at you (Jo, Amy, Beth, Meg, Bhaer)
Comments by Mark Adamo
40 End Credits
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