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Project
Sharon's Grave
An opera by Richard Wargo
Based on the play by John B. Keane
About Sharon's Grave
In “Sharon's Grave,” a dark comedy based on the play by Irish writer John B. Keane, Dinzie, a malevolent cripple, yearns for a hearth and home and schemes to claim the land of his young cousin, Trassie---as soon as her ailing father, Donal, dies.
About the creator
 Richard Wargo is a native of Scranton, PA and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. He has received grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pa. Council on the Arts, as well as a fellowship from the Theatre Communications Group to serve as composer-in-residence at the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee, where his opera Ballymore, based on Brian Friel's play "Lovers", was premiered in 1999 and recorded for PBS. Mr. Wargo's opera A Chekhov Trilogy was premiered by Chautauqua Opera in 1993 and since then has received numerous performances, including a recent production of the Trilogy's third segment “The Music Shop” at Juilliard, conducted by Maestro Osgood. During the summer months, Mr. Wargo serves as curator of the Sembrich Opera Museum in Bolton Landing on Lake George, NY.
AOP Presentations
June 2 & 3, 2006:
Concert reading of Act One, Scene One
The Great Room (138 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY)
Music Direction by Steven Osgood. Cast: Camille Zamora (Trassie), Kyle Pfortmiller (Peader Minogue), Kevin Burdette (Dinzie), Robert Hoyt (Jack), Chad A. Johnson (Neelus), Amy van Roekel, Anne Graczyk (voices).
April 19 & 20, 2005:
Concert reading of Act One, Scene One
The Great Room (138 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY)
Music Direction by Steven Osgood. Cast: Jody Sheinbaum (Trassie), Marcus DeLoach (Peader Minogue), Charles Temkey (Dinzie), Keith Jameson (Jack).
The composer dedicates performances from Sharon’s Grave to the Keane family of Listowel, Co. Kerry and to the memory of a great Irishman, John B. Keane; 1928-2002. The composer wishes to thank Richard Ford and Dorothy and Harry Danner for sponsoring the first workshop of Sharon's Grave in November, 2004 in Wabash, Indiana. the 2006 workshop of Sharon’s Grave was supported by a Lackawanna County Arts and Cultural Grant, a program of the Lackawanna County Commissioners and the Lackawanna County Council on the Arts.
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