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Beth Morrison
Beth Morrison is an American producer of contemporary opera. Morrison is known for her collaborations with many artists through her company Beth Morrison Projects includes composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Du Yun, Paola Prestini, Kamala Sankaram, Darcy James Argue, and David Lang (composer), David Lang, librettist Royce Vavrek, and performers Lauren Worsham, Abigail Fischer, Nathan Gunn and Courtney Love. With Kim Whitener and Kristin Marting of Here Arts Center, HERE Arts Center, she created Prototype Festival, PROTOTYPE Festival, an annual festival of premier opera-theatre and music-theatre by pioneering artists from New York City and around the world. Select opera and music-theatre works produced by Beth Morrison * ''Soldier Songs'' (2008, David T. Little, composer and librettist) * ''Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt'' (2012, Missy Mazzoli, composer; Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek, librettists) * ''Dog Days (opera), Dog Days'' (2012, David T. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera
Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libretto, librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, Theatrical scenery, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conducting, conductor. Although musical theatre is closely related to opera, the two are considered to be distinct from one another. Opera is a key part of Western culture#Music, Western classical music, and Italian tradition in particular. Originally understood as an sung-through, entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include :Opera genres, numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dog Days (opera)
''Dog Days'' is an opera by David T. Little, to a libretto by Royce Vavrek after the short story by Judy Budnitz. Performance history ''Dog Days'' was produced by Peak Performances at the Montclair State University (New Jersey) in association with Beth Morrison Projects, and had its world premiere run from September 29 to October 7, 2012. Robert Woodruff directed the production that starred Lauren Worsham and performance artist John Kelly. Scenic and video design was created by Jim Findlay, costume design by Vita Tzykun, and sound design by Matt Frey. Alan Pierson was the production's Musical Director and conductor, with new music ensemble Newspeak serving as the on-stage band. Scenes from ''Dog Days'' premiered at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on May 9, 2009, as part of the Dawn Upshaw and Osvaldo Golijov Young Artists Concert. Three arias from the opera-in-progress were subsequently presented by American Opera Projects at Galapagos Arts Space, including the world premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Theatre Managers And Producers
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Sarah Kirkland Snider
Sarah Kirkland Snider (born October 8, 1973) is an American composer. She has received critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral, song cycle, choral, and ballet works. Biography Snider was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey. Despite a non-musical parentage, she had a self-professed musical itch from a young age, going as far as to knock on her neighbors’ doors to play their pianos by ear. Eventually, Snider began formal music study, beginning piano at age 7 and cello at age 10. She also sang in choirs, attending five years of summer camp at the American Boychoir School where she studied under Anton Armstrong. She later attended Princeton High School, singing in a nationally celebrated high school choir under William Trego, and performing in the PHS Orchestra. She cites two female PHS Orchestra conductors as early female role models. Snider also composed music at a young age, keeping it private until her junior year of high school when she showed her first works to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Reid (composer)
Ellen Reid (born 1983) is an American composer originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee and living and working in New York City and Los Angeles. Reid is a multi-genre composer whose breadth of work spans classical, opera, sound installations, film scoring, avant-pop, ensemble and choral writing. She is known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, ''p r i s m'', ''Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK'' and her work with various orchestras around the world, including the album '' isomonstrosity''. Early life Reid grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her first musical experiences were singing in church choir, playing in the school band and taking piano lessons. She started writing music during her time at Columbia College of Columbia University writing incidental music for plays and scoring films. Her inspiration began with the sounds of her environment. After undergrad, she lived in Thailand for two and a half years, working and learning alongside Thai musicians writing operatic works that drew from b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prism (opera)
''Prism'' (styled as ''p r i s m'') is a 2018 opera by Ellen Reid that explores the post-traumatic stress experience after sexual assault. Reid received the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her work on the opera. Composition history Ellen Reid began composing ''Prism'' in 2015 along with librettist Roxie Perkins. Reid and Perkins, both survivors of sexual assault themselves, began working on the opera as a way to help overcome their own trauma. "We started working on the piece about five years ago, before the #MeToo movement, before there was a kind of shift in thinking about what it meant to be a survivor. And it felt really important." Reid said in an interview with NPR on April 15, 2019. The opera took a total of 4 years of grueling self-reflection to accurately depict the emotional impact of sexual and emotional abuse. Despite being written before the #MeToo movement took the internet by storm, this kaleidoscopic opera took on greater significance as a result of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking The Waves (opera)
''Breaking the Waves'' is an opera in three acts by Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek. It is based on the 1996 Breaking the Waves, film of the same name by Danish auteur Lars von Trier. The opera was first performed on September 22, 2016, by Opera Philadelphia. Commissioning and performances The opera was commissioned and premiered by Opera Philadelphia. The work was co-commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects. The New York City Prototype Festival showed this production in three performances in January 2017 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The opera received its European premiere on 21 August 2019 as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in a new co-production between Opera Ventures, Scottish Opera and Houston Grand Opera, in association with Bristol Old Vic. The production ran for three performances and was directed by Tom Morris (director), Tom Morris, Sydney Mancasola sang Bess, Wallis Giunta sang Dodo, Susan Bullock sang Bess's Mother. In 2024, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
