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I HEAR AMERICA SINGING: THE SOUNDS OF FREEDOM
Wednesday, June 19 | 5:30 PM
Willoughby Plaza
Willoughby Street and Adams St., Brooklyn, NY
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Friday, June 21 | 6:30 PM
Monument Terrace, Fort Greene Park at top of hill
Brooklyn, NY
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In celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, AOP singers perform a mix of traditional spirituals, operatic favorites and compelling new songs. Featuring music by composer Nkeiru Okoye from the opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom and “Brooklyn Cinderella,” a song cycle based on the poetry of Brooklyn teenagers. Performances by Sumayya Ali, Sequina Dubose, Clinton Ingram, and Damian Norfleet. Mila Henry, keyboards.
The June 19 performance is part of Performing the Streets June 2013, presented by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance.
The June 21 performance is part of Make Music NY 2013. Also featuring performances by Two Sides Sounding and Opera on Tap. Click here for a full calendar of the day's events!
Both performances are FREE to the public.
Made possible in part with funds from NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs
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WHEN YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT
An Intimate Evening with Cady Huffman
Monday, June 24 | 6:30 PM
At the historic Fort Greene brownstone of
Ruth and Martin Goldstein
37 South Portland Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Enjoy food and cocktails with Tony Award winner Cady Huffman (The Nance, The Producers, The Will Rogers Follies) as she shares and sings a specially created playlist of her opera and music theater favorites at a historic Fort Greene brownstone. With additional performances by AOP singers Sequina DuBose and Ryland Angel. A silent auction will be held.
Tickets: $250 (Tax-deductible); Tickets are strictly limited to the first 40 guests.
All proceeds support AOP and its mission to develop and present new music.
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THE BLIND
World Premiere (new version)
Lincoln Center Festival 2013
July 9-14 | 8:00 PM
Lincoln Center, Rose Building
New York, NY 10023
Composer Lera Auerbach
Stage Director John La Bouchardière
Music Director Julian Wachner
Sound Design Jody Elf
Co-produced with Lincoln Center Festival
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Immerse yourself into the unexpected, shifting, multisensory sound space of The Blind, an a cappella opera created by Russian-born composer and pianist Lera Auerbach and directed by John La Bouchardière—known to Lincoln Center Festival audiences for the broadly acclaimed The Full Monteverdi, a 2007 work he staged, conceived, and directed. Here, an entirely new dimension of opera comes alive with an unexpected physical and aural journey in a powerful one-act experience that tells the story of twelve nameless characters stranded on a desert island waiting for a rescue that never arrives. The libretto is loosely based on an English adaptation of the controversial play Les aveugles, written by Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck in 1890. The Blind redefines the boundaries between audience and performer, bringing theatergoers a heightened experience of opera and all of its possibilities.
Performances by: Dominic Armstrong, Sarah Brailey, Yulia Van Doren, Branch Fields, John McVeigh, Nicole Mitchell, Liam Moran, Kyle Pfortmiller, Barbara Rearick, David Schmidt, Faith Sherman, and Rose Sullivan.
Please note: Audience members will be blindfolded for the duration of the performance.
“Her music is so skillfully constructed and so rich in imaginative beauty.”
—San Francisco Chronicle on Lera Auerbach
“A miracle of human endeavor.”
—Telegraph (U.K.) on John La Bouchardière’s The Full Monteverdi
This performance is approximately one hour, with no intermission.
COMPLETE INFO & TICKETS:
www.lincolncenterfestival.org/current-season/the-blind
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THE SUNSET MAKER
Friday, June 21, 2013 | 7:00 PM
The Flea
41 White Street (between Broadway & Church Streets)
New York, NY
Tickets: FREE
WORLD PREMIERE by C&V alum Gregg Wramage (pictured)
THE SUNSET MAKER is a monodrama for actor, cello and piano, after the poem by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Donald Justice. The piece was written in response to Mr. Justice’s death in 2004, and is the fourth of six completed works in my ongoing series of pieces based on Mr. Justice’s poetry that also includes: “Into the Black Oblivion” (1999), “Mourning Songs I” (2002), “Mourning Songs II” (2004), “Already in Memory” (2006), and “Symphony No. 1” (2006). This is its premiere performance. Part of the 2013 Music With a View festival.
Composed by Gregg Wramage
Featuring Robert Ian Mackenzie (actor), Laurel Pistey (cello), Marc Peloquin (piano)
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CRIMINAL ELEMENT
Thursday, July 11, 2013 | 7:30 PM
JACK (505 1/2 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238)
$20 advance sales | $25 at the door
Saturday, July 13, 2013 | 8:00 PM
Area 405 (405 E Oliver St Baltimore, MD 21202)
$15 advance sales | $20 at the door
With music by C&V alums Sidney Boquiren and Rachel Peters!
In 2010, Rhymes With Opera (co-founded by C&V's George Lam) commissioned Baltimore composer David Smooke to create Criminal Element, a forty-minute “non-opera” based loosely around the story of outlaw French bank trader Jérôme Kerviel, with an invented language by Smooke. RWO concludes its 2012-13 season with a new, fully staged production of Criminal Element. The production will be designed by Valeska Populoh, and will be co-directed by Populoh and composer David Smooke.
In addition, RWO will be premiering twelve one-minute operas by Judah Adashi, Jenny Beck, Sidney Boquiren, Joshua Bornfield,Nomi Epstein, Alexandra Gardner, Tim Hansen, Andrew Histand, Mark Lackey, Anna Meadors, Rachel Peters, and Ashley Wang. These brand-new operas were commissioned especially for this performance.
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