{"id":14723,"date":"2013-04-17T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=14723"},"modified":"2013-04-17T06:16:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:16:28","slug":"apsu-opera-to-perform-hansel-and-gretel-april-20th-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/04\/17\/apsu-opera-to-perform-hansel-and-gretel-april-20th-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Opera to perform Hansel and Gretel April 20th-21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-95649\" title=\"APSU Department of Music\" alt=\"APSU Department of Music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/APSU-Department-of-Music.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"95\" \/>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; In 1980, a young Austin Peay State University music student named Lisa Conklin-Bishop performed the part of Hansel in the University\u2019s staging of German composer Engelbert Humperdinck\u2019s famous opera, \u201cHansel and Gretel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work, a powerful folk opera with lush orchestration and tuneful melodies, was extremely popular with Clarksville audiences.<!--more-->Conklin-Bishop now serves as the director of Opera Theater at APSU, and this weekend she hopes to recreate the success of some 33 years ago with the University\u2019s revival of \u201cHansel and Gretel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opera, based on folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, opens at 7:30pm on April 20th, with a matinee performance at 3:00pm on April 21st, in the Music\/Mass Communication Building\u2019s Mabry Concert Hall. APSU undergraduate student Erin Keas will play the part of Hansel, while graduate student Anna Atwater will take on the role of Gretel. Recent APSU music department graduate Karen Crow will play the witch.<\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s opera performance is a major event each spring because the concert is a large collaborative effort between different areas within the APSU music department. The cast includes vocal performance majors while the APSU Symphony serves as the pit orchestra for each performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the most terrifying and exhilarating thing I get to do every year just because there are so many diverse forces involved in this,\u201d Dr. Gregory Wolynec, APSU professor of music and the symphony\u2019s conductor, said.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration also extends to other areas of the creative arts on campus. APSU theater students helped with makeup and APSU art students helped paint the set, which was designed by Kyra Bishop, Conklin-Bishop\u2019s daughter. Ralph Conklin, Conklin-Bishop\u2019s father, actually built the sets.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for \u201cHansel and Gretel\u201d are $8.00 for adults, $5.00 for students and free for APSU students with a valid I.D.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the show, contact the APSU music department at 931.221.7818.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; In 1980, a young Austin Peay State University music student named Lisa Conklin-Bishop performed the part of Hansel in the University\u2019s staging of German composer Engelbert Humperdinck\u2019s famous opera, \u201cHansel and Gretel.\u201d The work, a powerful folk opera with lush orchestration and tuneful melodies, was extremely popular with Clarksville audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[18633,23,16648,10901,5692,262,12443,825,18632,9288,4017,1586,5936,18634,11599,754,18635],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-3Pt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14725,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723\/revisions\/14725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}