A Christmas Carol (& Bob & Ted & Alice)

Commissioned by The Decameron Opera Coalition
Music by Peter Hilliard 
Libretto by Matt Boresi

A caroling party goes off the rails in this comic send-up of holiday musical repertoire and the people who bring it to your door. Sometimes carolers are jolly... sometimes they fight like the Dickens.

 

DOC the Halls

Premieres December 2, 2022

 

Artists

Sarah Lawrence, Carol
Timothi Williams, Alice
David Hamilton, Ted
Calland Metts, Bob

Peter Hilliard, piano
Matt Boresi, slapstick
Maria Sensi Sellner, sleigh bells

Production Team

Director & Cinematographer: Kathy Wittman, Ball Square Films
First AC: Justin Lahue
Audio Engineer: Kristian Tchetchko
Producer: Maria Sensi Sellner
Scenic/Crew:
Matt Boresi, Peter Hilliard, Maria Sensi Sellner, Brennan Sellner, Jeffrey Klefstad

Filmed on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Recorded at Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh
Costumes from Spotlight Costumes, LLC

Special thanks to:
Melissa & Stephen Neely, Jesica and Ralph Crewe, Courtney Seinar and Jason Farmakis, Brian Kontes, Jeffrey Klefstad & Ryan Moeslin, Cody Burke-Sweet, Rebecca Householder, Sara Stock Mayo

Sarah LawrencE

Calland Metts

Timothi Williams

Timothi Williams, mezzo-soprano, is a West Virginia native and a graduate of  Pennsylvania State University where she received her Master of Music degree in Voice  Performance and Pedagogy. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal  Performance from West Liberty University in 2014. In addition, Ms. Williams also holds  a Professional Performance Certificate from the Penn State School of Music.  

Timothi has had the pleasure of performing several operatic roles on stage such as Jo  March in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina, Dinah in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Mélisande  in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Donna  Curson in Mozart/Guerreiro's Figaro 90210. She is delighted to be singing the role of  Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Resonance Works Pittsburgh and looks forward to  singing Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel, with Lyric Opera of the North this  June.  

Quickly gaining popularity as a soloist, Ms. Williams performs regularly with many  orchestral, vocal, and chamber ensembles throughout the east coast--particularly  throughout the Pittsburgh area. She has been making debuts in opera programs around  the country, most recently as a Studio Artist with Chautauqua Opera for their 2019  season. She looks forward to many new symphonic endeavors in the year ahead. 

Among her most notable credits, Timothi was named a Metropolitan Opera National  Council Audition Winner (Pittsburgh District) in 2018, and again in 2021 under its new  name, The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. 

Timothi has a passion for education and enjoys sharing the gift of voice with others  through her private voice studio, offering masterclasses, and teaching at the university  level. She is currently on the voice faculty at Slippery Rock University, where she acts  as Adjunct Professor of Voice, and Director of Opera Performance. When not  performing or teaching, she enjoys spending time with daughter Kennedy, partner Joe,  and dogs Millie and Tober.


Peter hilliard & Matt Boresi

Peter Hilliard & Matt Boresi are the creators of new opera and opera-adjacent works, regularly praised for their "subtlety, humor, charm, and sorrow." Their most recent full-length opera “The Last American Hammer”, (World Premiere, UrbanArias, Washington DC 2018), featuring renowned soprano Elizabeth Futral, was praised by critics as a “beautifully prepared, dramatically taut” production, ”which makes us challenge our cultural, political, racial and regional assumptions head-on”, with “a difficult - but needed - conclusion for these times.” It received a second production at Pittsburgh Opera in 2020. Matt and Peter have created award-winning crossover work from Off-Broadway’s “Don Imbroglio” and “Going Down Swingin’” to the puppet opera “Eat Your Greens: Verdi by Vegetables.” They both hold Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University.

Peter lives in Philadelphia. Matt lives in Chicago.   

David Hamilton

Kathy Wittman