Experiments in Opera is set to give four programs during its spring 2024 season. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo takes on the title role in the workshop performance of “Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel.” Jennifer Zetlan sings the role of Katharine Johnson, with Amanda Lynn Bottoms as Sissieretta Jones/Djuka Tesla, Timothy Stoddard as {…}
New Music USA has announced its 2023 Organization Fund Awardees to 85 creators across the nation. The fund, totaling $620,750, goes to outstanding organizations the work and support the development of music creators and artists that offer a crucial resource to their community. Over 500 entities expressed interest during this year’s grant application process. Those awarded are notable for their {…}
To celebrate the composer’s 78th birthday Experiments in Opera will present “Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations.” The program will feature the first live performance of Braxton’s compositions No. 279-283 which were written for “improvisational actors and improvising musicians.” These works were recorded by Braxton and Alex Horwitz as “Four Compositions (Duets) 2000.” Director and performer Rob Reese, soprano Kamala Sankaram, and {…}
Alexa Dexa (they/them), composer, performer, and disabled activist, offers one-on-one virtual performances for the disabled community. “Bewitch Yourself” is a tailored performance created by Dexa and the participant together. After an initial meeting, Dexa will use their vast resources and put together a unique “songspell,” – which the composer defines “as intentions holding space for dream possibilities that manifest transformation as {…}
“Aqua Net & Funyuns” was a 2020 project by New York City-based opera company Experiments in Opera taking the form of a podcast where in each 25-minute episode, three one-act “operas” are performed, each with their own plot and cast of characters. However, all three are connected by “easter eggs” (hidden elements) that tie each of the operas together, and {…}
“What is opera, and what does ‘operatic’ and ‘opera’ mean to you?” It is a question that has the potential to uproot tradition. No longer bound by antiquated edicts, artists can now use ‘opera’ to make a statement: a profession of some emotion and inner feeling that lies deep within their core. It is my goal, through interviews with all {…}
October 7, 2022, ALL ARTS will present the world premiere of “Everything For Dawn,” a 10-episode miniseries created by Experiments in Opera. The series features original music from 10 composers and librettos from a six-person writers’ room to tell the story of a young girl’s personal journey after her father, an outsider artist, commits suicide. Directed by Alison Moritz, the {…}
Experiments in Opera (EiO) will release a 10-episode serial video opera titled “Everything for Dawn.” The series will have its one-night-only ‘Opening Night’ screening of all ten episodes at Anthology of Film Archives on October 1, 2022, after which it will stream for free on All Arts beginning October 7, 2022. The series is a coming-of-age story set in the {…}
Jason Cady, co-artistic director of the New York City-based “fun and fearless opera collective,” Experiments in Opera (EiO), has been, well, experimenting in fun(yun) and fearless ways with a new podcast opera, “Aqua Net and Funyuns,” released in December 2020. Aqua Net is, of course, the hairspray preferred by 99 percent of Hair Band rockers in the 1980s and those {…}
What happens when you take four librettists under quarantine and have them write in a virtual, TV-inspired writers’ room? Answer: Brooklyn, New York-based Experiments in Opera’s five-part podcast opera, “Aqua Net & Funyuns.” All episodes will be available for streaming or downloading on December 7, with each running about 25 minutes. The four librettists, Jason Cady; Cara Ehlenfeldt, Daniel Shepard, {…}
Experiments in Opera is set to showcase the world premiere “Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations” on March 26-28 a the The Flea in New York City. The showcase, which will feature an operatic realization of the composer’s “Compositions No. 279-283,” will star Kamala Sankaram and Elizabeth Saunders on vocals, Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones, Jessica Pavone on strings, Nate Wooley on trumpet, {…}