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Upcoming AOP Events
OperaGenesis
in association with American Opera Projects and the Royal Opera House
present a fully-staged workshop of
Heart of Darkness
an opera in one act
Music by Tarik O'Regan
Libretto by Tom Phillips
Based on the novella by Joseph Conrad
AOP will be in London the week of Aug 3 - 8 in an innovative partnership with the Royal Opera House's opera development initiative OperaGenesis.
The five day Heart of Darkness workshop will be structured after AOP's First Chance series and will feature tenor Robert Hoyt as Marlow (pictured, below), a role he has performed with AOP since the project's inception, and bass-baritone Kevin Burdette as the megalomaniac Kurtz. The workshop will be led by Oliver Gooch, who shared conducting responsibilities at AOP's November 2007 workshop and recently conducted the NYC premiere of Dangerous Liaisons at Dicapo Opera Theatre.
Six AOP Board members and their friends will travel with AOP's Heart of Darkness company and attend workshop performances of the opera-in-progress by composer Tarik O'Regan. During the week there will be organized tours to Trinity College, Cambridge, (where O'Regan is a guest artist-in-residence); London's Royal Academy of Art (where Tom Phillips, the opera's librettist, is a Royal Academician); and, of course, the Royal Opera House, one ofthe world's great theaters.
Aug 3 - 8, 2008
OperaGenesis
Linbury Studio Theater
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
London WC2E 9DD
UK
If you are interested in traveling with AOP to London for this series, please contact AOP Executive Director Charles Jarden at cjarden@operaprojects.org for full details.
A musical tribute to Brooklyn's first poet, Walt Whitman
Opera on Tap, Brooklyn's favorite populist opera company, pays tribute to Brooklyn's first great poet-native, Walt Whitman. OOT will perform new songs based on Whitman poems by composers from American Opera Projects' Composers & the Voice program. Honoring Whitman's influence on American Poetry, OOT will round out the show with songs/texts by other American greats such as Emily Dickinson, James Agee and e. e. cummings. The songs will be introduced with historical footnotes provided by Greg Trupiano, Artistic Director of The Walt Whitman Project.
The concert will be held at one of Brooklyn's most important Revolutionary War sites, The Old Stone House (pictured above).
This performance is part of Fort Greene Park Conservancy's "Prison Ship Martyrs Memorial Centennial Celebration." Walt Whitman's demands for a memorial to the local POW's of the American Revolution resulted in Fort Greene Park's Prison Ship Martyrs Monument.
October 3 & 4, 2008 - 8 PM
New opera scenes from this season’s young composers
Clint Borzoni / Kristin Kuster / Raymond J. Lustig / Jack Perla / Gregory Spears / Andrew Staniland
Co-Music Directors: Jennifer Peterson and Kelly Horsted.
C&V Artistic Director: Steven Osgood
Click here for more info on this year's composers & singers!
Each season American Opera Projects selects six composers to work with the company's Resident Ensemble of Singers for its nationally recognized Composers & the Voice Workshop Series. The primary focus of the Composers & the Voice Series is to give composers extensive experience working collaboratively with singers on writing for the voice. Created and led by Steven Osgood, Composers & the Voice participants meet in closed sessions from November to May to present and discuss new works composed specifically for the individual voices of the Resident Ensemble.
Six Scenes will be the first public performances of opera scenes developed during this year's workshops.
Fri Oct 3 & Sat Oct 4, 8 PM
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford St.
Brooklyn NY 11217
DIRECTIONS
Tickets: $15 / $12 (stud/snrs)
Reservations: 718-398-4024 or mgray@operaprojects.org;
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June 28, 2008 - 8 PM
Long Leaf Opera presents
The Glass Hammer
Cuban-born composer Jorge Martin's The Glass Hammer is a perfect match of word and music--a set of fifteen poems from Andrew Hudgin's collection ("The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood") relating his growing up as an army brat in the American South. The protagonist looks back with utter frankness at his childhood and, remembering the confusion, violence, rage and painful exual awakening, he tries to achieve some reconciliation and forgiveness toward his family, which in spite of everything, he still loves.
The Glass Hammer
UNC Memorial Hall
200 E. Cameron Avenue
UNC campus
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Click here for more details
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