ENCHANTED APRIL, A New Opera A cold, rainy London. A wisteria-covered medieval castle in Italy. Lives and love bloom again... Based on the exquisite 1922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. Libretto by Kleban Award-winner Charles Leipart, Music by Richard B. Evans.    ENCHANTED APRIL, A New Opera, a musical score and libretto that are intensely personal, gloriously romantic, wondrously universal, and a thorough delight for all those who love beautiful singing, soaring melodies, grand music, stunning staging, drama and humor, happy endings...and wisteria and sunshine!

THE RISING, An Irish Allegory is a grand musical oratorio exploring through music and poetry the stormy relationship between Nobel poet William Butler Yeats and fiery Irish patriot Maud Gonne in the context of the Irish Rebellion of 1918.          Composed for solo vocalists, Irish instrumental ensemble, chorus and orchestra. Poems and speeches by W. B. Yeats, Maud Gonne, Francis Ledwidge et al. Composed and Orchestrated by Richard B. Evans.

MIDAS & MARIGOLD, A Timeless Musical Fable, a delightful family operetta. A lonely King wishes only for more gold; his teenage daughter Marigold tends to her rose garden, but aches instead for her father’s love.  Book & Lyrics by ‘vid Buttaro and Squire Fridell, Music by Richard B. Evans.

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