Project

Erik and Julie, NYC, 2006, Photograph by Skye Parrott

MODEL LOVE
or How the Young and Fashionable Are Feeling This Season
a staged song cycle

About Model Love

Fun, energetic and curious song cycle in need of the right audience. R U what I M looking 4? Not one for labels but people have called me contemporary art music with rock, jazz and blues. You can call me whatever or whenever you like. Interested in M-M-W threesome? I’m all of that too. Must have good sense of humor. Let's just relax...become friends & get to know each other... and see what happens.

Model Love is a 30-minute song cycle fusing contemporary art song with blues, jazz ,and rock set for three singers (soprano, baritone, tenor) chamber orchestra and rock band. Based on texts from Nude Modelling for the Afterlife by BAFTA award wining poet/comedian Henry Normal with music by J. David Jackson.

About the Creators

J. DAVID JACKSON (composer)
J. David Jackson conducts new music, old music, and most music in between. He is the new Principal Guest Conductor of the Lisbon Chamber Orchestra. This season he returns to the Metropolitan Opera to cover four productions. Conducting credits include Simon Boccanegra, Hansel and Gretel and Pique Dame in New York, Faust in Genoa, Elektra in Istanbul, Der Freischütz in Bangkok, Don Pasquale, Love of Three Oranges and Così fan Tutte in Brussels, War and Peace in Toronto; companies include the Metropolitan Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Central City Opera, Teatro Carlo Felice, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opera Omaha, Palm Beach Opera, and the Intermezzo Festival. His compositions have been heard in Brussels (Cello Sonata, Violin Fantasy), Frankfurt (Magnificat) and in the US (vocal and chamber works, opera The Birth of Christ). He recently completed his Violin Concerto, and is nearing completion of Water, the Bearer of Love, with texts by Propertius, Statius, Pliny and Homer. He is delighted to return to American Opera Projects and deeply grateful to them for curating Model Love in its premiere outings. www.piperanselmi.com/jackson

HENRY NORMAL (author, Nude Modelling for the Afterlife)
Henry Normal was born in Nottingham. His entertainment career began as a poet and stand-up comedian in the mid-Eighties. Henry has been responsible for creating, writing, executive producing and script-editing some of the best and award winning television comedy of the last decade. As a writer, he has worked with many of the UK’s top comedians including Caroline Aherne, Dave Gorman, Craig Cash, John Thompson, Johnny Vegas and of course Steve Coogan, before setting up Baby Cow Productions in 1999 with Steve. Since 1999 he has devoted the majority of his time to running and building Baby Cow. He has executive produced all of Baby Cow’s output and script edited many of the shows. www.babycow.co.uk

Media

AOP Presentations

October 2, 2011
Concert performance w staging
Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center
MUSIC DIRECTION: J. David Jackson
STAGE DIRECTION: Crystal Manich
PERFORMANCES BY: Rosalie Sullivan, Gregory Gerbrandt, Jeremy Little
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