TheLoathlyLady Videos

From April 1, 2009 premiere of The Loathly Lady, a comic opera based on Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," with words by Wendy Steiner and music by Paul Richards; drawings by John Kindness, animation consultant Joshua Mosley, lead animator Erinn Hagerty; conductor Gary Thor Wedow; starring Julianne Baird, Thomas Meglioranza, Ruth Cunningham, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, José Álvarez, and Jeffrey Behrens; early instruments, Parthenia, Piffaro, and others....

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Animation pilot for The Loathly Lady, a comic opera (2009) based on Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," with words by Wendy Steiner and music by Paul Richards; drawings by John Kindness, animation consultant Joshua Mosley, lead animator Erinn Hagerty; starring Susan Hellauer and Richard Lissemore.

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Eliza Doolittle (mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek) and Virginia Woolf (soprano Ruth Cunningham) are caryatids holding up the doorway of the tower of the Lady of Shalott (soprano Julianne Baird). The three explain what women want most.

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Sheherezade (mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek) provides a preliminary answer to the Knights question: What do women want most?

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The Knight (baritone Thomas Meglioranza) contemplates the delightful year that lies ahead of interviews with lovely ladies to fine the answer to the question: What do women want most?

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The Knight replies to Sheherezades account of what women want most (baritone Thomas Meglioranza).

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The Loathly Lady (soprano Julianne Baird) informs the Knight (baritone Thomas Meglioranza), the Queen (alto Susan Hellauer), and her two ladies (soprano Ruth Cunningham and mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek) of the wish the Knight must grant her in exchange for answering the question, What do women want most?

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