Aldridge: Elmer Gantry

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
July 26, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ALDRIDGE, ROBERT
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Florentine Opera Company & Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Boggs, Phares, Risley, Rideout, Kel
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 1: So she… (Elmer, Men's Chorus, Frank, Bully)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Keith Phares, Vale Rideout, Aaron Blankfield

      Conductor: William Boggs

    2. Act I Scene 2: Who's the man among us has not battled for the Lord? (Men's Chorus, Rev. Baines, Elmer, Frank, Eddie, Lulu)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matthew Lau, Keith Phares, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck

      Conductor: William Boggs

    3. Act I Scene 3: When you hear the truth do you know it? (Elmer, Frank, Lulu)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Keith Phares, Vale Rideout, Heather Buck

      Conductor: William Boggs

    4. Act I Scene 4: Vessels of service, great and small (Chorus, Ice Cream Vendor, Revival Worker, Revival Singer, Child, Sharon, Elmer, Keely Family Singers, Lulu, Frank)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matthew Richardson, Scott Johnson, William Johnson, Katie Koester, Patricia Risley, Keith Phares, Sarah Lewis Jones, Linda S. Ehlers, Nathan Krueger, Paul Helm, Heather Buck, Vale Rideout

      Conductor: William Boggs

    5. Act I Scene 5: And God said, "Build me a tabernacle!" (Sharon, T.J. Rigg, Men's Chorus, Rev. Baines, Elmer)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Patricia Risley, Jamie Offenbach, Matthew Lau, Keith Phares

      Conductor: William Boggs

    6. Act I Scene 6: Sweetheart? Eddie? What are you doing? (Lulu, Eddie)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Heather Buck, Frank Kelley

      Conductor: William Boggs

    7. Act II: Introduction

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boggs

    8. Act II Scene 1: Knock, knock. Here I am with the goods. (Elmer, Sharon)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Keith Phares, Patricia Risley

      Conductor: William Boggs

    9. Act II Scene 2: Left, left; left, right, left. (Tour Guide, Women's Chorus, Elmer, Sharon, Frank, T.J. Rigg, Eddie, Lulu, Rev. Baines, Mrs. Baines)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Margaret Wendt, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Jamie Offenbach, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Matthew Lau, Julia Elise Hardin

      Conductor: William Boggs

    10. Act II Scene 3: Is belief a gift? (Frank)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Vale Rideout

      Conductor: William Boggs

    11. Act II Scene 4: …600 lightbulbs delivered tomorrow… (Elmer, Lulu, Eddie)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Keith Phares, Heather Buck, Frank Kelley

      Conductor: William Boggs

    12. Act II Scene 5: Dear God, look into my heart (Sharon, Elmer)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Patricia Risley, Keith Phares

      Conductor: William Boggs

    13. Act II Scene 6: Oh, Lordy (T.J. Rigg, Worker 1, Worker 2)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jamie Offenbach, Aaron Blankfield, Scott Johnson

      Conductor: William Boggs

    14. Act II Scene 7: Oh! that my nightly watch would cease to be (Chorus, Revival Singer, Sharon, Elmer, Revival Worker, Eddie, Lulu, Mrs. Baines, Rev. Baines, T.J. Rigg)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Johnson, Patricia Risley, Keith Phares, Scott Johnson, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Julia Elise Hardin, Matthew Lau, Jamie Offenbach

      Conductor: William Boggs

    15. Epilogue: Dr. Binch. Great pleasure (Elmer, Dr. Binch, Chorus)

      Composer: Robert Livingston Aldridge

      Ensemble: Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Keith Phares, Aaron Blankfield

      Conductor: William Boggs


Set just before World War I, Sinclair Lewis’s incendiary novel Elmer Gantry tells a story of old-time religion, illicit romance and revenge. Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s operatic adaptation is a ‘marvelous amalgam of toe-tapping accessibility’ (Opera News) full of hymns, gospel songs, marches and dance, evoking the period in a score which echoes Gershwin and Copland. This all-American production combines a first-rate cast of singers and a world-class orchestra for an intoxicating experience.