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 {…}

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PROTOTYPE Festival 2023 Review: note to a friend

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(Credit: Richard Termine) Japan Society, as part of Beth Morrison and Kristin Marting’s PROTOTYPE Festival 2023, presented the world premiere of Composer David Lang and Director Yoshi Oida’s newest opera, “note to a friend,” on January 12th, 14th and 15th. Based on the texts of Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, in an invented way, this opera mirrored the complex subconsciousness of {…}

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Prototype Festival Unveils 2023 Season

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The Protoype Festival has announced its 2023 slate. For the 10th anniversary of the festival, the company is kicking things off with the East Coast premiere of “In Our Daughter’s Eyes,” a work about “the journey of [a father] as he wrestles with truly becoming a man that his daughter would be proud of.” The Du Yun and Michael McQuilken {…}

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PROTOTYPE Festival Postpones 2022 Festival Due to COVID-19

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The PROTOTYPE Festival alongside partners St. Ann’s Warehouse, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and Abrons Arts Center have postponed this year’s 10th-anniversary festival to January of 2023. The festival, which was scheduled to run Jan. 7-16, 20222, noted that due to the current surge in COVID cases and the resulting safety risks, as well as logistical challenges including artist and {…}

IndieOpera

Prototype Festival Announces Programming Updates & New COVID-19 Safety Protocols

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The PROTOTYPE Festival has announced programming updates and new COVID-19 safety protocols for the audiences. The festival is set to take place between Jan 7 – 16, 2022. All visitors will have to present a proof of full vaccination status and a picture ID. Additionally, the audiences must show a negative PCR test taken at least 72 hours before the {…}

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Prototype Festival to Present ‘Times3’ as Part of New York Opera Festival 2021

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The Prototype Festival has announced that it will present “Times3 (Times X Times X Times),” a site-specific work that takes you through Times Square from a unique perspective. The work, which was created by composer Pamela Z and theatre artist Geoff Sobelle, offers audiences an opportunity to experience the work live from Times Square in New York City or even {…}

IndieOpera, Streaming

Prototype Festival Unveils Streaming Slate for 2021

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The Prototype Festival has announced its streaming slate for the Spring of 2021. First up will be “Thumbprint,” which will also feature a virtual conversation between composer Kamala Sankaram, librettist Susan Yankowitz, and director Rachel Dickstein. Streaming Date: May 12, 2021 Next up is “Toxic Psalms.” Director Karmina šilec will be around for a virtual conversation after the stream. Streaming {…}

Reviews, Video Productions

Prototype Festival 2021 Review: Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists

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“Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists” was produced by VaVaVoom Theatre and Bedroom Community and was premiered in May 2014, at the 28th edition of Reykjavik Arts Festival. PROTOTYPE’s annual festival debuted the digital US premiere this year and has reopened conversations about this work and its contemporary significance in the opera world. “This is a song cycle, a collection of songs {…}

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