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Postcard from Morocco is an opera in one act composed by Dominick Argento and libretto written by John Donahue under a commission from the Center Opera Company (now the Minnesota Opera). The opera is based on A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. The opera premiered on October 14, 1971, at the Cedar Village Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, conducted by Philip Brunelle with stage direction by John Donahue. The opera was a success and continues to be performed around the world.

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Postcard from Morocco is an opera in one act composed by Dominick Argento and libretto written by John Donahue under a commission from the Center Opera...

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French postcard

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A French postcard is a small, postcard-sized piece of cardstock featuring a photograph of a nude or semi-nude woman. Such erotic cards were produced in...

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Dominick Argento

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operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers...

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Coloratura soprano

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"Popoli di Tessaglia!"" by Mozart, Esclarmonde by Massenet, and Postcard from Morocco by Dominick Argento. Thomas Adès composed a high A (A6) for the...

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Elliot Madore

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Seiji Ozawa, released 2015, Decca Classics. The Shoe Salesman in Postcard from Morocco with conductor Rossen Milanov, released 2009, Albany Records. Ramiro...

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Rossen Milanov

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The Curtis Opera Theatre (in a recording of Dominick Argento's Postcard from Morocco for Albany Records) and Opera Columbus with Rigoletto. Milanov is...

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Vern Sutton

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also served as the director of the music school from 1991 to 1998. Dominick Argento's Postcard from Morocco; Orchestra and Chorus of the Minnesota Opera;...

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Ilana Davidson

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Mozart's Così fan tutte, Lady with a Hand Mirror in Dominick Argento's Postcard from Morocco, and Atalanta in Handel's Serse. Davidson was a vocal fellow at...

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Barbara Brandt

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company during her career. These include: Lady With a Cake Box in Postcard from Morocco by Dominick Argento (1971) Witch/Anne Sexton in Transformations...

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Minnesota Opera

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premieres at the Minnesota Opera, including The Handmaid's Tale, Postcard from Morocco, Armida, The Elephant Man, and The Fortunes of King Croesus. The...

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Casablanca

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recorded much of the early colonial period in Morocco with his photography. With his staged nude postcard photos taken in Casablanca's colonial brothel...

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Lou Galterio

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production of Don Giovanni), Washington Opera (Anna Bolena and Postcard from Morocco), Opera Pacific (Regina), Dallas Opera (Madama Butterfly), Connecticut...

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Richard Woitach

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"Elektra" (1994). Woitach also led a production of Argento's "Postcard from Morocco," at Wolf Trap, with Phyllis Treigle in the cast. Holden, Stephen...

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Pennsylvania Opera Theater

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rarely performed works staged by the company included Argento's Postcard from Morocco (1977), Benjamin Britten's version of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera...

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List of operas by composer

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Dominick Argento (1927– ): Casanova's Homecoming, Christopher Sly, Postcard from Morocco Thomas Arne (1710–1778): Alfred, Artaxerxes, Comus, The Cooper,...

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French protectorate in Morocco

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French protectorate in Morocco, also known as French Morocco, was the period of French colonial rule in Morocco that lasted from 1912 to 1956. The protectorate...

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Phyllis Treigle

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Francesca Zambello), Wolf Trap Opera Company (Transformations and Postcard from Morocco), Eugene Opera, New York Opera Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Opera...

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Dawn Padmore

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Marriage of Figaro), Lady with the Cake Box in Dominick Argento's Postcard from Morocco, Elettra (Idomeneo), Sister Angelica (Suor Angelica), the Radical...

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Bousbir

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Bousbir (Moroccan Arabic: بوسبير, French: quartier réservé) was a walled-off brothel quarter in Casablanca, Morocco, established by Resident General Lyautey...

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Edward Foreman

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Sources, ProMusica Press, 2006, ISBN 9781887117180 Dominick Argento, Postcard from Morocco, conductor Philip Brunelle, Orchestra of the Centre Opera Company...

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Asmae El Moudir

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1990 in Salé) is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and producer. El Moudir holds a master's degree in documentary cinema from the Abdelmalek Essaâdi...

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Marcelin Flandrin

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Dakar in 1925. Marcelin Flandrin also created many nude orientalist postcards of Moroccan women in the Bousbir, or quartier réservé, a colonial brothel-city...

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Samira Said

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genre. Samira Said was born in 1958 in Rabat, in Morocco, to a father from Rabat and a mother from Fez. She began singing at the age of nine[citation...

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Tangier International Zone

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centered on the city of Tangier, Morocco, which existed from 1925 until its reintegration into independent Morocco in 1956, with interruption during...

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