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BE A DMMO VOLUNTEER!
Below are a few volunteer opportunities...
Like to garden? DMMO needs your help with our rose garden and other landscaping. Contact Chari Kruse if you'd like to learn more at ckruse@dmmo.org or (515) 961-6221.
DMMO Guild: Did you know that DMMO had 3, going on 4 local guild chapters? One in Des Moines, Indianola, Ames and now a new chapter in Pella/Newton. You can volunteer in any number of ways! A few examples: bring food to a meeting...help plan an event...help get the word out...take a few notes...there are many ways to help! Contact Dennis Hendrickson to learn more at dhendrickson@dmmo.org or (515) 961-6221.
Marketing Intern: Need an internship? DMMO is looking for a college intern to help in our fundraising and communcations efforts. Responsibilities are varied, but the individual selected will have the opportunity to learn how fundraising and events are conducted and created with the help of volunteer support. This is a non paid (but very flexible!) position. To learn more, contact Leslie Garman at lgarman@dmmo.org or (515) 961-6221.
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Des Moines Metro Opera is EXCITED to share the 2011 Line Up!
Drum roll please...
The 39th Summer Festival Season will feature the following productions:
- La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
- Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
- Dialouges of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc
We're also proud to announce that thanks to the support of many DMMO friends, we've reached our goal of raising $25,000 to meet the James Collier Matching Gifts Challenge!
Thank you one and all for all of your help - we couldn't have done it without your continued support.
Didn't have a chance to make your gift? It's never to late to support DMMO! With the fiscal year end fast approaching (August 31), every gift, whether large or small, is vital to our success.
Don't hesitate to contact us should you have questions or would like to get involved as a volunteer! You can reach us by phone at (515) 961-6221 or you can reach me by email at lgarman@dmmo.org.
See you at the Opera!
Leslie Garman
Editor, OPERAzzi
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La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
The world's most popular opera!
It's Christmas Eve in Paris, complete with the abandoned revelry of Bohemian life. The novelist Henri Murger wrote a journal about his youth in Paris in the 1930s and from its pages comes a musical version that Puccini set to beautiful and passionate melody so eloquent in its expression of love won and lost that it hasn't failed to inspire each succeeding generation. This is an opera to be seen again and again.
Last seen at DMMO: Summer Festival 1996 (though it was performed it in the Civic Center in January 2001).
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Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc
One of the twentieth century's most powerful, important and emotionally challenging operas, the piece is based on a play by Georges Bernanos and was premiered at La Scala in Milan. Set against the terrifying backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story about a young woman of nobility who becomes a nun, against the wishes of her father and brother. Blanche de la Force is deeply afraid of the terror of the world in which she finds herself and joins the convent in an attempt to find refuge where she can live and work without fear. And then the Revolution begins and nothing is ever the same again. This is a story about real people but told with some abstractions that reflect the fact that often times what we say to each other is not often exactly what we mean.
As the wheels of the Revolution turn, giants are felled and little people are left behind are left to tremble in the wake. The opera records the everyday happenings and conversations in Blanche's life as she watches those around her deal with faith and courage and those events that lead her to her own crisis of faith versus fear.
The final scene stands alone and apart as one of the greatest moments in all musical theatre.
Last seen at DMMO: Summer Festival 1984.
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Thank you for supporting the Jim Collier Gift Challenge!
We are proud to announce that thanks to you, DMMO has reached its goal in raising $25,000 to match and meet the challenge made by one of our most loyal supporters - James M. Collier (sponsor of the James M. Collier Apprentice Artist Program)!
Thank you Jim Collier and thank you DMMO supporters!
If you didn't have an opportunity to make a gift to support DMMO, there is still time! As DMMO's fiscal year end is fast approaching (August 31), every gift is important to DMMO reaching its overall fundraising goal!
If you've already made a gift, DMMO thanks you; if not, its easy to do - just call the DMMO office at (515) 961-6221 or send your gift in care of: Des Moines Metro Opera, 106 West Boston Avenue, Indianola, IA 50125
Thanks for your continued support!
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