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Reviews, Video Productions

PROTOTYPE Festival 2021 Review: Times3 (Times x Times x Times)

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Innovation and extraordinary contemporary production which is vital to the continuation of opera-theatre and music-theatre works is at the core of this year’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival. Both international and local new works presented online at this time give audience members across the globe a chance to experience multimedia and interdisciplinary art that challenges perspectives and invites audience members to listen {…}

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Beth Morrison Projects & HERE Confirm Dates for 2021 PROTOTYPE Festival

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Beth Morrison Projects and he Here Arts Center have confirmed that the PROTOTYPE : Opera / Theatre / Now Festival is set to take place between Jan. 8-16, 2021. While the organization has not announced the official schedule and the operas that it will be performing, it did confirm, via a press release, that it will be developing roughly six {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Prototype Festival 2020 Review: Ellen West

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This past summer, OperaWire published an interview with “Ellen West” headliner Jennifer Zetlan. When asked what she wanted audiences to take away from her experience with the opera, Zetlan’s replied that, to her, an extremely successful evening of live theater or opera was one in which the audience leaves feeling their soul touched, adding “… I hope our audiences will find themselves deeply moved {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Prototype Festival 2020 Review: Blood Moon

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East met West during Wednesday evening’s performance of Garret Fisher and Ellen McLaughlin’s “Blood Moon,” a chamber opera for three voices staged at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York, one of six opera/musical theater productions featured in this year’s Prototype Festival. The show was the third in its world premiere run. Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects, the creative {…}

News

Prototype Festival Leads Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America

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With 2020 fully underway, opera companies are back in business. For this weekend’s recommendations, we feature a few repertory staples as well as some major new operas from the 21st century. Il barbiere di Siviglia – Canadian Opera Company Starting on Sunday, the Canadian Opera Company is back in business with conductor Speranza Scappucci leading Joan Font’s production of Rossini’s {…}

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Beth Morrison Projects & Trinity Church Wall Street Partner For 5 New Operas In 3 Years At PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL

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The Beth Morrison Projects and Trinity Church Wall Street are teaming up together with the PROTOTYPE Festival to announce a multiple year partnership that will feature five world premieres of operas over the next three seasons.  In 2021, the organizations will showcase Du Yun and Michael McQuilken’s “In Our Daughter’s Eyes,” starring Nathan Gunn.  In 2022, audiences will check out {…}

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Jennifer Zetlan to Headline ‘Ellen West’ At Prototype Festival 2020

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Jennifer Zetlan is set to take on the title role in the New York City premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” at the Prototype Festival on Jan. 14-19, 2020. Zetlan interpreted the role in the world premiere of the opera during the summer of 2019 at Saratoga Springs. “Ellen West is the pseudonym of a real {…}