The line up for Beth Morrison Projects’ 20th anniversary and 2025-26 season is announced. Ahead of its rolling world premiere with LA Opera and in New York at the PROTOTYPE Festival, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “HILDEGARD” will have a pre-premiere program, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the opera’s development, a Q & A with creators, and more. Vocalists Nola Richardson and {…}
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 {…}
(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 {…}
(Photo Credit: Maria Baranova) Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian’s opera, “Adoration,” is set to makes its west coast premiere in a co-presentation by LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects. Kouyoumdjian was awarded an OPERA America commissioning grant to create an opera adaptation of Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s “Adoration.” Written in collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek, the operatic version touches {…}
Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) has announced Harriet Steinke and Anuj Bhutani as the finalists for the third edition of BMP: NEXTGEN, the company’s composer competition for contemporary vocal works. The announcement follows a semifinal round held on Nov. 23-24, 2024, at National Sawdust in New York City, where 10 semifinalists presented their compositions during live performances. The finalists were chosen {…}
Beth Morrison Projects has announced the semifinalists for BMP NEXTGEN 3. Semifinalists include Bobby Ge, Sepehr Pirasteh, Felipe Hoyos-González, Rachel Jenna Epperly, Adeliia Faizullina, Harriet Steinke, Paul Gabriel L. Cosme, Anuj Bhutani, Julia Moss, and Sam Wu. During the weekend of Nov. 23 and 24, 2024, the semifinalists will see their pieces performed at National Sawdust in New York City. The performances {…}
Beth Morrison Projects has announced its participants for the 2024 BMP: Producer Academy. Among those engaging with the 8-week course are Socks Whitmore, Kamna Gupta, Kevaughn Harvey, Katrina Fasulo, Jordan Rutter-Covatto, Anna Pidgorna, Anita Gonzalez, Brenda L. Huggins, Cameron Sczempka, Justin Werner, Jacqui Sutton, Erica Ferguson, Haui Tm, Roberto Di Donato, Charles Jackson Jr., Jasmine Galante, Alara Magritte, Marie Bland, {…}
Beth Morrison Projects has unveiled its 2024-25 season. First up is the West Coast premiere of “Black Lodge” at The United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles. Michael VQ directs the opera by David T. Little and Anne Waldman. The showcase also features a pre-show experience called “BARDO.” Performance Date: Oct. 19, 2024 “BMP: NEXT GEN, CYCLE 3” is set {…}
New Music USA has named 85 awardees for the New Music Organization Fund’s 2024 grant cycle. This year, 702 applications were submitted. Grant seekers included music organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues spanning 17 states. Applicants chose their preferred funding strand from one of the following categories: General Operating Support, Creation of New Work, or Live Music {…}
Photo credit: Maria Baranova The world premiere of Grammy Award-nominated vocalist, composer, and percussionist, Jodie Landau’s “Performance of Self” on March 15, 2024 at National Sawdust draws attention to improvisation’s empathic heartbeat that is still very much alive. Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP), Landau’s solo debut show upholds BMP’s midas touch. It showcases Landau as the artist he is {…}
(Photo: Jill Steinberg) “Sensorium Ex” is an opera by composer Paola Prestini and librettist/poet Brenda Shaughnessy and co-directed by choreographer Jerron Herman. It is a multi-sensory narrative woven together at the intersections of disability and artificial intelligence. “Sensorium Ex” opera will be premiering at the Common Senses Festival in Omaha for their 2025 season, and is commissioned by the Ford {…}