Fanfare, May 1st, 2007
CONTE Firebird Motel * Jeffrey Thomas, cond; Mark Hemandez (Ivan); Milissa Carey (Nova); Julie Queen (Julie); Shawnette Sulker (Corina); Micah Epps (Trooper); San Francisco Coservatory Ch & C Ens * ARSIS 154 (60:12)
David Conte is professor of music at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His short opera Firebird Motel, which premiered in 2003, is clearly the work of an experienced writer for the stage. It is terse dramatically, and because of that makes its impact with maximum effect. The story concerns the mysterious disappearance of a young woman called Julie from the Firebird Motel. A...
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