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Print A year ago this month, San Diego Repertory Theatre presented a theatrical experiment by regular performer Hershey Felder, where the popular playwright/pianist/actor Hershey Felder livestreamed himself performing a solo play from his home in Florence, Italy. That marked the debut of what became Felder’s “Live From Florence” production company, which over the past year has presented a season of eight plays with music that concludes this week with “Nicholas, Anna & Sergei.” The film, about the life and music of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, premiered Sunday and is streaming on demand for $55 through Sunday at sdrep.org. ....
Anna & Sergei. Did you rethink how you wanted to tell the story? Well, it was written for [in-person] theater. When the pandemic hit, I was rehearsing here and we were scheduled literally to go to America with the whole team, two weeks later, something like that. March 10th everything shut down here, so all that was annulled of course. So this was supposed to be a stage play and that was the way we worked it. And then as I started adapting it for the screen I realized Nicholas has a much bigger part onscreen because Rachmaninoff is talking directly to the audience in a fever dream, and who he s talking to in the fever dream is the Tsar. But you can t quite do that on film; it would be very awkward. You can do it in the theater because, you know, it captures differently. So I realized we can t just say Anna & Sergei when the Tsar is one of the main characters. The structure of the play is the same; it s just how it s told on film is with more characters, and so I thought ....
San Diego REP Announces Hershey Felder, PUCCINI World Premiere Hershey Felder, PUCCINI is the story of a young musician in love with the world of opera, and in particular Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.by BWW News Desk San Diego Repertory Theatre and Hershey Felder Presents announced today the details of Hershey Felder, PUCCINI live from Florence, the story of a young musician who meets his musical hero. This world premiere presentation will be streamed live on Sunday, March 14 at 5 PM PDT, and will also be available as a recording until 11:59PM PDT on March 21. Tickets are $55 per household and are available for purchase at sdrep.org or 619.544.1000. ....
Porchlight Music Theatre has partnered with Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence on its next live streaming production: Hershey Felder as famed composer Giacomo Puccini. The world premiere of Hershey Felder, PUCCINI will be live streamed on Sunday, March 14 at 7 p.m. CDT. The production also features opera stars Nathan Gunn, Gianna Corbisiero and Charles Castronov. Tickets for PUCCINI are $55 per household and are available for purchase at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org. This production will benefit national US theatres and arts organizations including Porchlight Music Theatre. Tickets are now on sale at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org and include the live broadcast and a week of extended on-demand viewing access to the recording (available one-hour after the live broadcast ends). The broadcast will also be available for latecomers to purchase through the week of on demand access. Viewing access for all ends Sunday, March. 21 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. ....