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Death of Classical & Prototype Festival 2026 Review: Tiergarten

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(Photo: Kevin Condon) Death of Classical (DOC), in partnership with PROTOTYPE Festival, presented “Tiergarten” on January 16, 2026, at Cullen Hall, behind St. Paul’s Church on Carroll Street in Brooklyn, New York. This one-night-only, very intimate, cabaret performance featured historical landscapes of music, movement, politics, ideologies, and, most importantly, unabashed entertainment. Founder of DOC, Andrew Ousley, conceived, wrote, and directed {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) & Prototype by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) 2026 Review: What to wear

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(Photo: Stephanie Berger) The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Prototype by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) presented “What to wear” at the BAM Harvey Theater on January 15, 2025, to a sold out audience on opening night. The premiere of this work initially took place at REDCAT in LA in September 2006, under the direction of Richard Foreman, and remains {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Prototype Festival 2025 Review: Black Lodge

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For more than a decade, Beth Morrison Projects‘ Prototype Festival (January 9-19, 2025) has cultivated new ideas in New York City’s opera scene, like an haute couture show – what you see presented may not be what people wear in their everyday life, but it introduces concepts and silhouettes designed to influence the art form. “Black Lodge,” billed as a {…}
Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Beth Morrison on PROTOTYPE Festival, NEXTGEN & the Power of Collaboration

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(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 {…}
IndieOpera

PROTOTYPE: Opera / Theatre / Now Festival Unveils Five Productions for 2025 Edition

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The PROTOTYPE: Opera / Theatre / Now Festival has unveiled its 2025 season. “This season, we celebrate another extraordinary group of creatives as they tell the stories of our shared experience, tracing the threads that connect us across eras, cultures, dreams, and memories,” said an official press statement issued by the Directors of the festival. “We also celebrate the incredible {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Prototype Festival 2024 Review: Malinxe

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Photo: Maria Baranova Prototype Festival’s Out of Bounds presented the world premiere of “Malinxe” on January 20th, 2024, in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place. Out of Bounds is a platform for new vocal performance pieces that take place in unlikely locations across New York City. Through these new works, Out of Bounds makes public places into temporary spaces of {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Prototype Festival 2024 Review: Adoration

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Photo:  Maria Baranova Prototype Festival presented “Adoration” at New York City’s The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture on January 12th, 2024. It was an innovative opera, featuring both voices, an amplified string quartet, and technical sound engineering, composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian with a libretto by Royce Vavrek. This world premiere, shockingly timely, challenged audience members to examine bias while {…}
IndieOpera, News, Streaming

PROTOTYPE Adds Digital Offerings to 2024 Season

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 PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now has announced the addition of three new digital offerings to the 2024 festival lineup. The festival will showcase three new digital streaming options including composer Shodekeh Talifero’s “Vodalities: Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice,” a three movement piece, created to show the different modalities of the vocal arts. Catapult Opera’s commissioned digital work, “Swann,” by {…}
IndieOpera

PROTOTYPE: OPERA / THEATRE / NOW Announces Cast & Production News for 2024

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The PROTOTYPE: OPERA / THEATRE / NOW has announced updates for its 2024 festival. First up, the company revealed the featured performers. Heather Christian, Terry Dame, Viva DeConcini, Melanie Hsu, Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh, Maya Sharpe, with Rima Fand, Jessica Lurie, Divya Maus, Kait Wamer, joined by Raquel Cion, Marisa Clementi, Ciera Cope, Nadine Daniels, Sandra Gamer, Audrey Hayes, Mercedes Hesselroth, Frances {…}

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