Invitation to David's opera
DAVID VOLK
The UVa-Wise Department of Visual Arts is proud to announce the production of “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” a chamber opera in one-act by Dr. David Volk based on the short story by Flannery O’Connor. Performances will be held at the J. J. Kelly High School Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, January 26, and 3:00 p.m. Sunday, January 27. The performance is free and open to the general public.
The chamber opera was completed and premiered in Athens, GA, in April 2003 and was Volk’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Georgia. The work was performed later that year as a featured presentation at Revelations: Flannery O’Connor, the Visionary and the Vernacular, a quadrennial interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Flannery O’Connor Library at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville.
The performance cast at UVa-Wise includes Liz Frazier, an adjunct professor at Emory and Henry College, and Bradley Whaley, a graduate student at North Park University in Chicago, as well as UVa-Wise instructor Michael Cox, UVa-Wise students Rocky Cooper, Ben Harding, Amelia Trask, Alex Isom, Heather Jones, and community members Melanie Cooper and Wesley Polly.
The production is directed by UVa-Wise Assistant Professor of Theatre Michael McNulty with technical production by UVa-Wise instructor Jonathan Taylor.
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Apologies, but we will be in Florida that weekend. Are these the only performances coming up?
Jack and Wendy
DAVID VOLK
Big Stone Gap, Virginia