‘The Mutables’ to Premiere at HERE Arts Center

(Photo credit: Whitney Browne) “The Mutables,” by Kat Mustatea and Kamala Sankaram will make its premiere at the HERE Arts Center from Oct. 8–12, 2025. “The Mutables” blends experimental opera, dance, and technology into a meditation on the power and precarity of what it means to have a voice. The story is inspired by mythological forest creatures from Balkan folklore, {…}

Dec 16, 2024

Experiments in Opera to Present Two World Premieres in its Winter/Spring 2025 Season

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. {…}

Oct 15, 2021

The Pleiades Project to Present ‘A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza!’ Celebrating Women’s Right to Vote

The Pleiades Project will present a staged reading of “A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza! (AWSSE!)” on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, 2021, at The Lab at Alchemical Studios. “AWSSE!” is a music-theater work inspired by the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, enfranchising women in the United States. Adaptations of suffrage propaganda, popular music from the Library of Congress Archive: {…}