With Such Friends…

Music by Tom Schnauber, libretto by Jeff Duncan

An “ungrand opera” based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol and depicts the absurd fall-out of an insult between two minor noblemen with major egos.

Tom Schnauber is a German-American composer who studied film scoring at the University of Southern California and holds a PhD in composition and theory from the University of Michigan. He has won composition awards from ASCAP, the Kennedy Center, the Columbia Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin.

Conductor: Gerald Steichen
Ivan Nikiforovich: Andrew Drost
Ivan Ivanovitch: Scott Hogsed
Agafya Nikiforovich: Melissa Fogarty
Pyotr Feodorovitch: Jennifer Rivera

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Excerpt 2(2:34)

Excerpt 3(2:53)


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VOX 2007

Elmer Gantry
The Rat Land
Elegy for a Prince
Airline Icarus
Río de Sangre
Nannan
The Endings
In the Father’s Garden
Crossing the Horizon
The Fisher King
With Such Friends…
La Machine de l’être