Beth Morrison is an American producer of contemporary

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. 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, librettist

Royce Vavrek Royce Vavrek is a Canadian-born Brooklyn-based librettist, playwright, dance scenarist, musical theatre writer and filmmaker known for his collaborations with composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Mikael Karlsson, Ricky Ian Gordon, Paola ...

, and performers Lauren Worsham,

Abigail Fischer Abigail Fischer is an American mezzo-soprano. Fischer is known for her commitment to contemporary music, having premiered works by composers Missy Mazzoli, John Zorn, Nico Muhly and Elliot Carter. She performed the role of Mrs. X.E. in the wo ...

, Nathan Gunn and

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. With Kim Whitener and Kristin Marting of HERE Arts Center, she created

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, 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

, librettists) * ''

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'' (2012, David T. Little, composer;

, librettist) * ''Thumbprint'' (2014, Kamala Sankaram, composer; Susan Yankowitz, librettist) * ''

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'' (2014,

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, composer; Mark Doten, librettist) * ''Kansas City Choir Boy'' (2015, Todd Almond, composer and librettist) * ''Anatomy Theater'' (2016, David Lang composer; Lang and Mark Dion, librettists) * ''

Angel's Bone ''Angel's Bone'' is an opera by composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek in one act that follows the plight of two angels discovered on earth who are forced into spiritual and sexual slavery at the hands of a financially troubled couple. The wor ...

'' (2016, Du Yun, composer;

, librettist) * ''Aging Magician'' (2016, Paola Prestini composer, co-created by Prestini, Rinde Eckert and Julian Crouch) * ''

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'' (2016, Missy Mazzoli, composer;

, librettist) * ''p r i s m'' (2019,

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, composer; Roxie Perkins, librettist)

Concert works

* ''21c Liederabend'' (2009, 2011, 2013, 2016) ** ''A Few Stops on the N Train'' (2011, Du Yun, composer and lyricist) ** ''Albert, Bound or Unbound'' (2013, Marie Incontrera, composer;

, librettist) * ''Brooklyn Village'' (2012) ** ''Home'' (2012) (Sarah Kirkland Snider, composer; Nathaniel Bellows, lyricist) ** ''Canvas'' (2012) (Matthew Mehlan, composer; Royce Vavrek, lyricist) ** ''Am I Born'' (2012) (David T. Little, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist) * ''The Hubble Cantata'' (2016, Paola Prestini, composer;

, librettist)

References

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