FAIRY TALES: SONGS OF THE DANDELION WOMAN
Carson Kievman, composer
Carson Kievman & Mark Needle, co-librettists
World Premiere
"A shattering experience… great dramatic punch."
South Florida Classical Review
Director: Jeffrey Marc Buchman
Conductor: Mary Adelyn Kauffman
Projection Design: Alain Lores
Costume Design: Camilla Haith
Set Design: Sean McClelland
Lighting Design: Patrick Tennant
Dandelion Woman: Meagan Brus
Bank Examiner: Kenneth Mattice
photo credit: David Ramos
"FAIRY TALES MAKES A BOLD AND POWERFUL IMPACT IN WORLD PREMIERE"
"High marks to director Jeffrey Marc Buchman (whose riveting staging of Andy Vores’ No Exit for Florida Grand Opera was a highlight of the season). Buchman’s production never flagged in momentum, with the protagonists’ turmoil conveyed in strong dramatic strokes. Stunning projections of geometric images and the heroine’s notebooks by Alain Lores, Jorge E. Lega and Barbara Gutierrez were eye-filling additions to Sean McClelland’s handsome set. In a season that has seen more twentieth- and twenty-first century opera in South Florida than in the last two decades combined, Kievman’s opus is a stunner. It deserves wider performances beyond the current Miami Beach run."
South Florida Classical Review