If Love Be the Food of Musick, circa 1782 Zoe Vandermeer's Original Baroque Pastiche Opera, with performances given at the Glasgow International Early Music Festival, International Festival de Deia, Spain, New York International Theatre Fringe Festival, Pollok House Museum National Trust, Scotland, Bloomington Early Music Festival, and elsewhere.
Zoe Vandermeer as Miss Barsanti, in 'If Love Be the Food of Musick, circa 1782'
Zoe Vandermeer's original baroque pastiche opera 'If Love Be the Food of Musick, circa 1782', is a tale about love, betrayal revenge and madness set in the late 18th century England. Patterned after the pastiche format of John Gay's Beggar's Opera, music selections are composed by James Oswald, Henry Purcell, John Dowland, as well as Italian composers. Texts are by Dryden, Etheridge, Shelley, and many others. Zoe Vandermeer has performed the work as a one woman opera and as a chamber opera.
Special thanks to costume designer Heidi Wesbrock, lighting designer Alex Lopez, Katya Rivera, stage director, dialect coaches Professor John McClure of Aberdeen University and Lynn Soffer at the American Conservatory Theatre, the National Library of Scotland, and harp maker Tim Hobrough.
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