{"id":2446153,"date":"2019-07-09T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=309196"},"modified":"2019-07-09T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T04:05:00","slug":"aspen-opera-center-stages-stephen-sondheims-a-little-night-music-with-broadway-conductor-andy-einhorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-opera-center-stages-stephen-sondheims-a-little-night-music-with-broadway-conductor-andy-einhorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Opera Center stages Stephen Sondheim\u2019s \u2018A Little Night Music\u2019 with Broadway conductor Andy Einhorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.9193619849358\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-309196-900\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School's\" a little night on july inside the wheeler opera house in aspen. by austin aspen class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School&#8217;s &#8220;A Little Night Music&#8221; on Monday, July 8, 2019, inside the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. 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(Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-5.jpg\" alt=\"Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School's \" a little night on july inside the wheeler opera house in aspen. by austin aspen><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-6.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School's\" a little night on july inside the wheeler opera house in aspen. by austin aspen class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School&#8217;s &#8220;A Little Night Music&#8221; on Monday, July 8, 2019, inside the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. 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(Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-8.jpg\" alt=\"Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School's \" a little night on july inside the wheeler opera house in aspen. by austin aspen><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-9-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-9.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School's\" a little night on july inside the wheeler opera house in aspen. by austin aspen class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School&#8217;s &#8220;A Little Night Music&#8221; on Monday, July 8, 2019, inside the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/amfs-atd-071019-1-9.jpg\" alt=\"Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School's \" a little night on july inside the wheeler opera house in aspen. by austin aspen><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-opera-center-stages-stephen-sondheims-a-little-night-music-with-broadway-conductor-andy-einhorn\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-opera-center-stages-stephen-sondheims-a-little-night-music-with-broadway-conductor-andy-einhorn\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Aspen Opera Center is going Broadway this week, staging Stephen Sondheim\u2019s \u201cA Little Night Music\u201d for a three-night run at the Wheeler Opera House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sondheim, whose lyrics and music have helped define the American musical since \u201cWest Side Story\u201d debuted a half-century ago, had to be on the bill somewhere in the Aspen Music Festival and School\u2019s American-themed season. So the festival is bringing his most classically informed stage work to the Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For audiences, that means a night at the opera with show tunes and without subtitles. For the cast of voice and opera students, it means an acting challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cSondheim really writes for actors and the text is paramount,\u201d conductor Andy Einhorn said. \u201cSo the challenge here is to say, \u2018You all have fantastic voices, we know that, but remember that we\u2019re telling a story and that the lyric is first and foremost.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On the first day of rehearsals with director Edward Berkeley, Einhorn pushed his student singers to find the depths in Sondheim\u2019s wordplay: \u201cContinue to find new things in the lyrics. You will be amazed at how you continue to find these treasures and double-entendres throughout the piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Einhorn is an accomplished Broadway conductor with wide experience in Sondheim\u2019s work, including conducting Broadway\u2019s \u201cSondheim on Sondheim\u201d and serving as music director of the 2013 HBO documentary \u201cSix By Sondheim.\u201d His most recent credits include the revivals of \u201cCarousel\u201d with Aspen alum Ren\u00e9e Fleming and \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d with Bette Midler and touring with six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cA Little Night Music\u201d has been produced regularly by opera companies since the 1980s, as the show \u2014 set in 1900 in Sweden \u2014 is filled with classical music references and contains some of Sondheim\u2019s most complex songs. But, Einhorn noted, it\u2019s also among Sondheim\u2019s poppiest and most digestible musicals \u2014 the story of a love triangle, free of the esoteric bits in shows like \u201cFollies\u201d and \u201cSunday in the Park with George,\u201d or the darkness of \u201cInto the Woods\u201d and \u201cSweeney Todd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cYou\u2019re coming to a love story that promises some great entertainment,\u201d Einhorn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is also the Sondheim show that produced the pop music standard \u201cSend in the Clowns,\u201d which has been covered in beloved versions by the likes of Judy Collins, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and even Krusty the Klown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s our job as artists to make you listen again freshly to a piece of music like that,\u201d Einhorn said. \u201cTo be aware that, of course, everybody knows this music but there will be people in the audience who don\u2019t. You need to be telling the story as though everybody is taking it in for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nearing opening night, Einhorn said he had been astounded by the talent, drive and attention to detail his students have brought to the production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a symbiotic experience for both those of us who do this professionally and the students,\u201d he said. \u201cI think I\u2019m learning more from them than they\u2019ll learn from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:atravers@aspentimes.com\">atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-opera-center-stages-stephen-sondheims-a-little-night-music-with-broadway-conductor-andy-einhorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dress rehearsal for the Aspen Music Festival and School&#8217;s &#8220;A Little Night Music&#8221; on Monday, July 8, 2019, inside the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. 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