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Q & A: Beth Morrison on PROTOTYPE Festival, NEXTGEN & the Power of Collaboration
(Photo: Maru Teppei) Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) is an organization actively changing the roadmap of opera production and composition one project at a time. Since 2006 the company has commissioned, developed, produced, and toured over 60 works in 14 countries around the world, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber operas “Angel’s Bone” and “p r i s m.” This year’s PROTOTYPE {…}
Q & A: American Opera Initiative’s Kelley Rourke on the Essence of Contemporary Opera & Bringing AOI to NYC
(Credit: Brittany Lesavoy Smith Photography) Few organizations have done as much to illuminate the possibilities of contemporary opera than American Opera Initiative (AOI). The program, founded in 2012 by Francesca Zambello, is a one-year lab of sorts for aspiring opera composers and librettists to create, workshop, rehearse, and premiere a short opera. Amongst the works to premiere under the program {…}
Q & A: Soprano Chiara Isotton on Her Debut at the Royal Opera House & Performing the Role of Tosca
(Photo: Michele Monasta) Italian Soprano Chiara Isotton is a graduate of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, and is a member of the La Scala Academy, Milan. She won several important national and international competitions, including being among the winners of the “European Community” Competition for Young Opera Singers by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto in 2013 where she {…}
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FAWN Chamber Creative of Toronto & NUMUS of Kitchener-Waterloo to Present New Chamber Opera ‘Cells of Wind’
FAWN Chamber Creative of Toronto and NUMUS of Kitchener-Waterloo will co-present the debut concert performance of “Cells of Wind,” a new chamber opera by Anna Höstman and Oana Avasilichioaei. Inspired by the real-life experiences of Romanian artist Lena Constante, “Cells of Wind” delves into the psychological and emotional toll of prolonged, forced isolation. The opera which is set in a {…}
Daniel Kessner’s ‘The Camp’ to Make its World Premiere
(Photo credit: Azusa Oda & Dorothea Lange) Composer Daniel Kessner and playwright Lionelle Hamanaka’s “The Camp” will makes its world premiere at the JACCC Aratani Theatre in Los Angeles. “The Camp” tells the story of the Japanese American Shimono family who were forcibly removed from their suburban home in Southern California after Mas, a fisherman and head of the household, {…}