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 {…}
The PROTOTYPE: Opera / Theatre / Now Festival has unveiled its 2025 season. “This season, we celebrate another extraordinary group of creatives as they tell the stories of our shared experience, tracing the threads that connect us across eras, cultures, dreams, and memories,” said an official press statement issued by the Directors of the festival. “We also celebrate the incredible {…}
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 {…}
PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now has announced the addition of three new digital offerings to the 2024 festival lineup. The festival will showcase three new digital streaming options including composer Shodekeh Talifero’s “Vodalities: Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice,” a three movement piece, created to show the different modalities of the vocal arts. Catapult Opera’s commissioned digital work, “Swann,” by {…}
The PROTOTYPE: OPERA / THEATRE / NOW has announced updates for its 2024 festival. First up, the company revealed the featured performers. Heather Christian, Terry Dame, Viva DeConcini, Melanie Hsu, Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh, Maya Sharpe, with Rima Fand, Jessica Lurie, Divya Maus, Kait Wamer, joined by Raquel Cion, Marisa Clementi, Ciera Cope, Nadine Daniels, Sandra Gamer, Audrey Hayes, Mercedes Hesselroth, Frances {…}
The PROTOTYPE Festival has announced its 2024 season, the 11th in the company’s history. Kicking things off will be the world premiere of Heather Christian’s “Terce.” The “radical rethinking of a monastic 9 am mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the ‘Holy Spirit’ through the lens of the Divine Feminine” features a 30-person choir, among others. Kennan {…}
(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 {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}