Neikrug's Through Roses

For this one-night-only performance of wholly original late-20th-century stage works, Tony, Drama Desk, and Theatre World award–winning actor John Rubinstein narrates and directs Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug’s World War II–set “play with music” Through Roses, and New Mexico’s own Chatter Ensemble makes their Festival debut performing Peter Maxwell Davies’s avant-garde monodrama Eight Songs for a Mad King, which features baritone Michael Hix in the titular role of King George III. 

DAVIES Eight Songs for a Mad King 

MARC NEIKRUG Through Roses 

John Rubinstein, actor/director; Marc Neikrug, conductor; Martin Beaver, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Felix Fan, cello; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Frank Rosenwein, oboe; Carol McGonnell, clarinet; Colin Currie, percussion; Katia Skanavi, piano; Chatter Ensemble (Michael Hix, baritone; David Felberg, violin; James Holland, cello; Jesse Tatum, flute; James Shields, clarinet; Luke Gullickson, keyboards; Jeffrey Cornelius, percussion; Tara Khozein, director) 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes