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AOP and Opera on Tap return to Galapagos Art Space for the latest in this ongoing series that brings the best of contemporary opera to one of Brooklyn's most innovative art venues. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Opera Grows in Brooklyn features scenes from contemporary operas by three of the fairer sex’s best composers.
Featuring:
Patience & Sarah
American Opera Projects brings back scenes from PATIENCE & SARAH, the controversial opera that was the talk of the 1998 Lincoln Center Festival. Set in Connecticut in the winter of 1816, PATIENCE & SARAH tells the powerful story of two young women (soprano Adrienne Danrich and mezzo Rosalie Sullivan) who meet, fall in love, and resolve to devote their lives to each other. Music by Paula Kimper, Libretto by Wende Persons. Based on the novel by Isabel Miller.
Also featuring tenor Brandon Snook.
Music direction by Kelly Horsted. Stage direction by Erin Stoneking.
Miranda
Reality television and high art combine in MIRANDA, a multi-media singspiel by Kamala Sankaram where the audience becomes detective, judge, and jury for an unsolved crime. Set in the near future, this dystopic hybrid of a murder-mystery play and a CourtTV reality show asks audiences to decide which of three suspects is a killer. Through an innovative mix of Hindustani classical music, Baroque counterpoint, tango, and hip-hop, MIRANDA explores what the word “opera” means to the modern audience.
Performed by Kamala Sankaram, Drew Fleming, Pat Muchmore, Hubert Chen, Ed Rosenberg, Jeff Hudgins, and Amanda Villalobos.
Watch a clip from MIRANDA
Prairie Dogs
Opera on Tap, New York's best and favorite divebar opera company, presents PRAIRIE DOGS, the second in a triptych of operas that constitute The Wild Beast of the Bungalow. Inspired by the Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington, Alberta, PRAIRIE DOGS finds an eleven-year-old Girl in a town overrun by prairie dogs. Her father has been shooting the strays on the property and cheating on his wife. The Girl solves both problems simultaneously: she divorces her real parents, becomes obsessed with taxidermy, and creates her own prairie dog family, only to find that they are not the affectionate substitutes she’d hoped they would be.
Music by Rachel Peters (pictured), Libretto by Royce Vavrek.
PHOTOS
March 27, 2011 - OPERA GROWS IN BROOKLYN: LADIES' NIGHT
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