MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
by Encompass New Opera Theatre

Full-scale productions of new music theatre/opera with orchestra

"One of the aspects that is unique about Encompass is the amount of artistic work we do on each and every production from the director's concept, design concept, and musical preparation, working with the singers for the highest-level acting and musical performances, and of course working with the composer, librettist, striving to illuminate the essence of whatever the piece is about through intense theatrical and musical qualities."

-Nancy Rhodes, Artistic Director

A Wake Or A Wedding
November 6-9 and 13-16 2014
at the Rose Nagelberg Theatre
Baruch Performing Arts Center
(55 Lexington and Third Avenue, New York, NY)

A delightful, witty and moving work exploring surprising relationships in a mining town. Imaging if the TV show Dallas were mixed with a Chekhov comedy and set to a lyric opera score! Read More

Encompass Spring Opera at Symphony Space: Singing Stein!
April 27, 2012
Friday, 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm
at Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater (95th and Broadway, New York, NY)
Explore the vision, genius and wit of Gertrude Stein in music!
Ned Rorem’s Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
Virgil Thomson’s Capital Capitals
With texts by Gertrude Stein
Tickets: $30; Symphony Space Members $25; Under 30 $15.
For Tickets: online at www.Symphonyspace.org OR
Purchase tickets in person at the Symphony Space Box Office (Tues – Sun, 1pm – 6 pm)
Box Office: 212-864-5400. Address: 95th and Broadway.

Wall to Wall: Gertrude’s Paris
May 5, 2012
Saturday, (Exact Time TBA) (Entire Wall to Wall event begins at 11 am)
at Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
Singing Stein! featuring Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters and Capital Capitals will be performed by Encompass New Opera Theatre, along with many exciting performances focused on Stein and her contemporaries. Free admission. More information at www.SymphonySpace.org.

A complement to the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition “The Steins Collect: Matisse Picasso and the Parisian Avant Garde.”

You’re sitting outside on a cobblestone street, a glass of wine perched on your café table. Salvador Dali and Man Ray walk by in heated discussion. Django Reinhardt’s band is tuning up a few doors down, and you can’t stop tapping your feet as the hot beats seep out into the warm Paris evening. Wafting down from 27 Rue de Fleurus is the scent of Alice’s famous fudge, as it’s another Saturday Salon at the Stein/Toklas household, and you’re invited. Re-live this magical time of art in life and life in art at our annual free marathon - Wall to Wall: Gertrude’s Paris. -Symphony Space

~ PAST MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS ~

Angel of the Amazon
2011

The Theory of Everything
2010