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Q&A: Co-Artistic Director of Experiments in Opera Jason Cady on EiO’s Serial Opera Podcast ‘Aqua Net and Funyuns’

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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 {…}

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Experiments in Opera to Release Five-Episode Opera Podcast: ‘Aqua Net & Funyuns’

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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, {…}

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Experiments in Opera to World Premiere ‘Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations’

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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, {…}

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Experiments In Opera Unveils 2019-20 Season, Including ‘Writers’ Room Opera’

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The New York City based Experiments in Opera has unveiled its 2019-20 season. “The 2019-2020 Season is our ninth year of programming adventurous, funny and intimate new opera,” stated the company’s composers-leaders Aaron Siegel, Jason Cady, and Kamala Sankaram in a press release. “We are delighted to partner with several of New York City’s preeminent live performance organizations to expand the {…}

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Experiments in Opera to Open Season with Synthesizer-based Premieres

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Experiments in Opera will be opening its season on Friday, November 2, 2018, with the world premiere of four new works in a program titled “Modularias.” The works will highlight the interaction between the human voice and the modular synthesizer in making music. The works which comprise “Modularias” are Jason Cady’s “Candy Corn,” which features soprano Alize Rozsynyai and baritone {…}

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New York Opera Fest 2017: Experiments In Opera Showcases 6 New ‘Flash Operas’

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As part of the second ever New York Opera Fest, Experiments in Opera is showcasing its Flash Opera. The company has partnered with Symphony Space to commission six new short operas. The six, new works will each last 15 minutes apiece but will be fully staged in an evening-length program in the Thalia Theater. Up first will be Peter Mehlman’s “Mandela {…}

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Works & Process Announces Experiments in Opera’s ‘Custom of the Coast’

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Works & Process and Experiments in Opera are set to present “Custom of the Coast” by Kamala Sankaram and Paul Muldoon. The event will take place on Feb. 9, 2025, at the National Sawdust. The evening will showcase a first look at a new opera intercutting the life stories of an eighteenth-century Irish pirate who was sentenced to death and {…}

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Works & Process to Present ‘Experiments in Opera: The Lives of Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel’

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Works & Process is set to present “Experiments in Opera: The Lives of Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel.” The workshop, set for April 15, 2024, at the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater in New York City, will feature music and words by Phil Kline and a story concept by Phil Kline and {…}