I thought, ‘Wow, this is such an exciting thing to do with your voice that this is what I want to do.’ ” “He had a way of using the voice that I’d never thought of before. “I’d never imagined that someone could set text in such an interesting way,” she said. Then one day she discovered the songs of the American modernist composer Charles Ives and her mind was blown. She studied filmmaking at Syracuse University, then at age 21 moved to San Francisco, where she began studying vocal music at San Francisco State and the city’s Conservatory of Music. She started singing and playing guitar and violin in high school, eventually playing weddings in a jazz combo with two of her teachers. Narucki, 58, grew up in Belleville, N.J., where her father enjoyed singing country music around the house. Sledgehammer is something we don’t have in town anymore, but she’s the musical equivalent.” A musical life “This type of work can really enrich an arts community and raise the bar if you can find somebody willing to take a big risk.
“It brings an experimental element that’s so necessary to any arts community, especially in this town,” said Yeager, a former ensemble member of San Diego’s edgy Sledgehammer Theatre, which has been mostly dormant since 2008.
Despite the avant-garde nature of the material Narucki produces, the high quality of the product and the unique niche it fills in San Diego’s arts community draws an eager audience, Yeager said. Like all previous kallisti shows - which include Viktor Ullmann’s obscure 1943 chamber opera “Der Kaiser von Atlantis” in 2012 and the world premiere of Anthony Davis’ “Lear on the Second Floor” in 2013 - “The Threepenny Opera” is expected to sell out. The other roles are played by graduate students in UC San Diego’s contemporary music program. Peachum, king of the city’s beggars, and Narucki, a Grammy-winning soprano, plays his wife, Mrs. Susan Narucki, artistic director of kallisti ensemble at UCSD, confers with director Ruff Yeager during a recent rehearsal for the experimental music ensemble's upcoming production of "The Threepenny Opera." Presented as a “politico-cabaret,” the comic story of a charismatic killer (Macheath, known as “Mack the Knife”) in a politically corrupt town will highlight the dichotomy of the pristine image that public figures present to the media and the private side they keep hidden. “When I was a child, I was obsessed with looking at these maps … but I’ve spent my adult life looking at the map of people’s imagination and where I fit in,” said Narucki, whose ensemble presents its seventh production next weekend, a modern take on Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s 1928 music hall drama “The Threepenny Opera.”ĭirected by Ruff Yeager, “Threepenny” will be set in 2017, with the inauguration of America’s first female president. Today, the artistic director of the University of California San Diego’s kallisti experimental music ensemble is still collecting, but now it’s the repertoire of the world’s contemporary composers. At the age of 7, Susan Narucki’s all-consuming hobby was collecting and studying the maps of all 50 states.
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