Sextet

Queer Theatre - Taking Center Stage gives voice to the stories of LGBT people.

Sextet is a concert reading and will be performed for one night, on Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30pm.

Show Summary

Diversionary Theatre
presents a concert reading of
Sextet: A Queer Opera in Six Scenes
By Nicolas Reveles
Directed by J. Sherwood Montgomery
Wednesday, October 14 – 7:30pm

Featuring: Enrique Toral, Chad Frisque, John Craig Johnson, Joe Pechota, Will Earl Spanheimer and Nick Munson.

General Admission Tickets: $24 [$19 advance tickets for Diversionary subscribers]

Patron Tickets (supports the development of this work): $50 and includes a post-show reception (dessert, wine, coffee) with the artists. [$40 advance tickets for Diversionary subscribers]

Tickets: 619.220.0097 or www.diversionary.org

Diversionary Theatre’s Queer Theatre program will present a concert reading of four scenes of the new queer opera Sextet by Nicolas Reveles.  This first public workshop of this intimate chamber opera explores the many facets of gay desire for community, for power, for acceptance, for family, for sex and for love.  From Walt Whitman to The Rapture, a storybook tale to a look at love in the 21st Century, San Diego composer and librettist Nicolas Reveles seeks to find a common thread in the poetry, lore, myth and experience of gay men coming to terms with extraordinary circumstances.

Nicolas Reveles is currently The Geisel Director of Education and Outreach for the San Diego Opera and the host of OperaTalk on UCSD-TV.  He composed, in collaboration with librettist J. Sherwood Montgomery, an operatic setting of The Sleeping Beauty which toured schools and theatre venues in a production by the San Diego Opera Ensemble in the fall of 2005.  His latest opera, Rumpelstiltskin was toured by the Ensemble from 2007-2009 and produced by Lyric Opera San Diego in February 2009.  J. Sherwood Montgomery is artistic director of Lyric Opera San Diego.

Creative Team

Nicolas Reveles

Pianist, composer and lecturer Nicolas Reveles holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of San Diego and a Master of Arts in Music with an emphasis in choral conducting from the University of Redlands.  From 1983 to 1985 he attended the Manhattan School of Music in NewYork where he studied with pianist Gary Graffman and received the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance.

In 1994 he began a four year relationship with the White Oak Dance Project as pianist for their chamber ensemble, providing integral musical accompaniment for the performance of Mikhail Baryshnikov and his company.  In this capacity the pianist appeared throughout the United States, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Reveles has also performed with such notable musicians as violinist Zina Schiff, cellist Milos Sadlo and soprano Carol Neblett.

Dr. Reveles is currently The Geisel Director of Education and Outreach for the San Diego Opera.  Since 1990 he has been the regular opera preview lecturer, offering over 60 presentations during each season.  He is currently the host of OperaTalk on UCSD-TV and recently won First Place in Community Service and Public Affairs Programming from the San Diego Press Club.  He recently composed, in collaboration with librettist J. Sherwood Montgomery, an operatic setting of The Sleeping Beauty which toured schools and theatre venues in a production by the San Diego Opera Ensemble in the Fall of 2005.  His latest opera, Rumpelstiltskin was toured by the Ensemble from 2007-2009 and produced by Lyric Opera San Diego in February 2009.   

   
   

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