The S.E.M. Ensemble has announced its 2025 Spring Concert. Soprano Kamala Sankaram serves as soprano soloist, along with composer, vocalist, and pianist Amina Claudine Myers. Petr Kotik, conducts the orchestra. Together they will present a program featuring Lejaren Hiller, Judith Berkson, Charles Ames, and Christian Wolff. Also on the program is Myers’ “Knowledge Of The Known And Unknown, “Mother E; {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) The S.E.M. Ensemble will present a special concert at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York on Dec. 18, 2024. The event will be headlined by soprano Kamala Sankaram and conducted by Petr Kotik. Per an official press release, “the program includes music whose creation directly relates to the Czech Republic, compositions which had an impact or {…}
Experiments in Opera announces its 2025 Winter/Spring season. Soprano Anchal Dhir and mezzo-soprano Rocky Duval give the workshop performance of Kamala Sankaram and Paul Muldoon’s “Custom of the Coast.” They are accompanied by the Flux Quartet. “Custom of the Coast” is co-presented by Works & Process and National Sawdust, and is slated for premiere at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 2025. {…}
(Photo credit: Boston Lyric Opera) Works & Process announces its 40th anniversary season taking place in spring 2025. For the purposes of this article only opera events are included. Fortieth Works & Process at the Guggenheim Series – Performance Highlights and Discussions Excerpts from Sarah Ruhl and Anthony Roth Costanzo’s reimagining of Vivaldi “The Seasons” are performed prior to its {…}
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its 2024–25 Performances for Young Audiences Season. For the purpose of this article, only opera works are included. The Washington National Opera presents Kamala Sankaram and Kelley Rourke’s “Jungle Book.” The beloved story gets a contemporary twist with music from South Asian and Western music traditions and mesmerizing Bollywood {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) Brooklyn Botanical Garden has announced that composer Kamala Sankaram will be its 2023 Artist in Residence. The Garden has commissioned a new work by Sankaram, which will be showcased as part of the “Power of Trees” program, which centers on the ways trees serve as pillars for the world. As Artist in Residence, Sankaram will spend over {…}
Portland Opera will continue its 2022-23 season with “Thumbprint,” an opera inspired by the true story of Mukhtar Mai, written by composer Kamala Sankaram, The work will be showcased on March 18, 22, 24 and 26, 2023 at the Newmark Theatre. Those unable to attend the live performance will have digital access for a limited time via Portland Opera Onscreen. {…}
The three new board members include renowned bass Morris Robinson, composer Kamala Sankaram, and composer Gregory Spears. Finally, Sam Linden will be the Executive Director. “I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the BMP team at such an exciting time for the company, and the field as a whole,” Linden said in an official press statement. “I am deeply inspired {…}
Composer Kamala Sankaram is set to premiere the “Secular Sacred Harp” on May 12 and 26, 2022 at Merkin Hall in New York City. The performance will feature new songs and an opportunity for live audiences to participate; participants will all join Sankaram in a circle on stage with a score and pitch detection image projected on a screen. “There’s {…}
Minnesota Opera is set to present “Interstate” starting on Oct. 9, 2021. The new opera film features music by Kamala Sankaram with a libretto by Jennifer Cresswell and Kathleen Kelly. Tonya McKinny directs with Ryan McKinny as Director of Photography. The film was produced by Helio Arts. It tells the story of Olivia and Diane, two women who shared traumatic {…}
Credit: Dario Acosta It has the elements of opera: singing; a story communicated through sound; and a hero that is born, faces obstacles, makes a sacrifice, and dies. The work in question is the public sound installation and experimental opera “The Last Stand” by Dr. Kamala Sankaram, to be presented by Creative Time in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park from September 18 {…}