OPERA IN EDEN
Monday, June 25th, 2012 – 7:00 PM
Leonard Nimoy Thalia – Symphony Space – 2537 Broadway at 95th Street
ALT’s annual Opera in Eden concert returns to the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space for one night only on Monday, June 25th, 2012 at 7:00 PM. This evening of work written by Resident Artists from ALT’s Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) will feature four new one-act operas by librettists Magda Bogin, Stephanie Fleischmann, David Johnston, and Kate Light; and composers Jeremy Howard Beck, Alla Borzova, Theo Popov and Jeffrey Dennis Smith. All of the operas featured as part of Opera in Eden are borne out of an assignment designed by Mark Adamo, in which composers and librettists are provided with an outline that is very loosely based on the story of Adam and Eve, but with many missing pieces – a sort of operatic ‘MadLibs’ project. The artists are asked to fill in the blanks, make distinct choices about their takes on the story, and then to realize their visions in an operatic context. Throughout this one-act project, composers and librettists are challenged to rethink assumptions, justify their choices, and to find their own voices as they create a piece that is both dramatically riveting and musically engaging. Previous operas developed as part of this project have gone on to fully staged productions in Philadelphia and San Francisco.
$20; Students/Seniors $15. Day of Show $25
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EARLIER THIS SEASON
BURIED ALIVE – OF THE FLESH – EMBEDDED
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 - 7:30 PM
Cary Hall – The DiMenna Center for Classical Music – 450 W.37th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues)
ALT presents a concert reading of The Poe Project: three one-act operas in development at ALT, inspired by the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive by Jeff Myers and Quincy Long; …of the Flesh by Jay Anthony Gach and Royce Vavrek; and Embedded by Patrick Soluri and Deborah Brevoort. The operas in this exciting new trilogy are not simply adaptations of Poe stories. ALT asked these writers: What might Poe write if he were alive today? The chilling results will be performed in concert with full orchestra in Cary Hall at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, with an extraordinary cast featuring soprano Caroline Worra, soprano Camille Zamora, mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock, tenor Chad A. Johnson, baritone Christopher Burchett, and bass Matt Boehler.
Tickets are $40 in advance, with a limited number of VIP seats available for $100.
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The Poe Project was commissioned by ALT with support from The New York State Council on the Arts. This concert of The Poe Project is made possible with support from OPERA America and The Dorothy Loudon Foundation.
