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The Cinnabar Theater, located in Petaluma, California, is a professional non-profit theater producing opera and musical theatre, drama and a chamber music series in a 120-seat venue, under the auspices of the Cinnabar Arts Corporation. The venue is also home to the Young Repertory Theater (founded in 1983), the longest running and largest youth performing arts program in Sonoma County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cinnabar Theater )〕 The company's Executive Director, Terence Keane, joined the organization in 2013, after serving as Director of PR and Associate Director of Marketing and Communications at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cinnabar Theater Welcomes Berkeley Rep's Terence Keane as Executive Director )〕 ==History== The theater, a 1908 schoolhouse, was purchased by Marvin Klebe (1935–1999) in 1970. Klebe converted it into a theater, which opened in 1972 as a venue to produce opera and musical theater.〔Brousse, Charles (07 March 2006) ("Cinnabar returns to its operatic roots" )''San Jose Mercury News''〕 Klebe was an operatic baritone who appeared in three roles with the San Francisco Opera's Spring Opera Theater during the 1963 and 1967 seasons and in the U.S. premiere of Gunther Schuller's ''The Visitation'' in 1967 at the War Memorial Opera House.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=San Francisco Opera Performance Archive )〕 In 1986, Nina Shuman (1954–2010) joined the company as Music Director and Conductor. The daughter of Juilliard trombone professor Davis Shuman (who commissioned and premiered works by Ernest Bloch, Vincent Persichetti, Darius Milhaud, Tibor Serly, and Henry Cowell in addition to playing principal trombone with the American Symphony Orchestra),〔Babbitt, Mark (2005) ("Davis Shuman: a biography" )''University of Washington''〕 Shuman had studied conducting with Murry Sidlin at the Aspen Music Festival. She led the Cinnabar Opera Theater in over thirty-five opera productions, including the 2010 West Coast premiere of Tobias Picker's ''Emmeline'' in addition to conducting productions for Lamplighters Music Theatre, Boise Opera and as Music Director of the Harrower Summer Opera Workshop at the University of Georgia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nina E. Shuman Obituary )〕 In 1988, Shuman and Klebe created the Petaluma Summer Music Festival as part of the Cinnabar Arts Corporation, in addition to developing the Cinnabar Chamber Singers and the Cinnabar Choral Ensemble. The theater has also served as a home for dancer/choreographer Ann Woodhead's Mercury Moving Company and the experimental Quicksilver Theater Company under the leadership of Richard Blake. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our History )〕 The current conductor, Mary Chun (who also serves as conductor of San Francisco's new music ensemble Earplay), has led performances for Hawaii Opera Theatre and served on the conducting staffs of San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Belgium's La Monnaie, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Opéra de Lyon, where she was also the Director of Musical Studies for Music Director Kent Nagano.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Chun bio )〕〔Bullock, Ken (31 May 2014) ("New: Around & About Opera & Theater: Cinnabar's 'Marriage of Figaro' & Fringe Festival at Dominican University" )''Berkely Daily Planet''〕 She has conducted Cinnabar productions of ''She Loves Me'' (2011), ''Don Giovanni'' (2012), ''Carmen'' (2013), ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (2014), and others.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Chun )〕 Notable among the many dramatic works produced at Cinnabar was a 2004 production of Tony Kushner's ''The Illusion'' (1988) adapted from ''L’Illusion Comique'' by 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille.〔Brantley, Ben (05 June 2011) ("Theater Review: The Illusion, Fantastical Adventures of a Missing Son" )''New York Times''〕 The Cinnabar production featured actor Jeffrey Weissman. In 2013, Broadway veteran and film/television actor Charles Siebert played the role of Gregory Solomon in the Cinnabar production of Arthur Miller's ''The Price.'' 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Price'' by Arthur Miller, Cinnabar Theater, Petaluma, CA Reviewed by Suzanne and Greg Angeo )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cinnabar Theater's Compelling Production of Arthur Miller's ''The Price'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cinnabar Theater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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