New York City Opera's VOX Contemporary Opera Lab provides the invaluable opportunity for composers and librettists to hear their works in development performed by the full resources of the wonderful New York City Opera Orchestra and Soloists. We are delighted to announce that Librettist Royce Vavrek (one of ALT's first Resident Artists, librettist of THE HUNGER ART, and currently writing OF THE FLESH for ALT's THE POE PROJECT) is represented on VOX this year by DOG DAYS, his recent collaboration with composer David T. Little.
DOG DAYS is an in-progress work based on the short story by Judy Budnitz that incorporates elements of opera, musical theatre, and rock-infused-concert music to investigate the psychology of a working class American family pitted against a not-so-distant-future wartime scenario. This black comedy asks: is it madness, delusion, or sheer animal instinct that guides us through severely trying times? Where is the line between animal and human, and at what point must we give in to our animal instincts merely to survive?
DOG DAYS will be presented as part of the 2010 VOX Festival at 10:20 PM on Friday April 30th. Click HERE to check out the entire schedule of exciting, boundary busting new works presented this year at VOX at NYU's Skirball Center for Performing Arts.
...and all VOX performances are FREE!
A Poe Project Preview @Galapagos ArtSpace - 21C Aria - May 27th
What would Edgar Allan Poe be writing if he were alive today? In honor of the 200th Anniversary of Poe's birth, this is the question we asked of three composers and three librettists last year as part of The Composer Librettist Development Program. Under the mentorship of librettist Michael Korie and Producing Artistic Director Lawrence Edelson, these six gifted artists have been developing THE POE PROJECT, a trilogy of one-act psychological thrillers inspired by Poe's short stories. Thanks to a commissioning grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, along with additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The ASCAP Foundation: Joseph and Rosalie Meyer Fund, ALT has commissioned the completion of this exciting and haunting new trilogy.
On Thursday May 27th, ALT will present two excerpts from THE POE PROJECT as part of 21C Aria. Born out of the success of the 21c Liederabend that was presented at Galapagos in November 2009, the 21c Salon Series is an on-going series curated and produced by Beth Morrison Projects and presented by Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn that surveys contemporary vocal music in the form of art song, opera and music-theatre, and comes in many forms including acoustic, amped up, classical, indie-clasical, post-classical and new forms of vocal music waiting to be discovered.
Featured on the 21C Aria Program will be excerpts from BURIED ALIVE - Music by Jeff Myers, Libretto by Quincy Long and OF THE FLESH - Music by Jay Anthony Gach, Libretto by Royce Vavrek. So save the date! Join American Lyric Theater, American Opera Projects, Beth Morrison Projects, Center for Contemporary Opera, The Coterie, Encompass New Opera, Metropolis Opera Project and Opera On Tap for 21c Aria on Thursday May 27th at Gapapagos Art Space. More information coming soon!
Please Note: The full Poe Project Workshop, previously scheduled for May 26th, is being rescheduled for the fall due to artist schedule conflicts. Don't miss this opportunity to get a preview of two operas from the trilogy on May 27th!
The Golden Ticket @OTSL - June 13th-26th - World Premiere
The World Premiere of THE GOLDEN TICKET is just around the corner! All of your favorite characters come to life in this delicious new opera based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Commissioned by American Lyric Theater and Felicity Dahl, THE GOLDEN TICKET features a score by Peter Ash and libretto by Donald Sturrock. The production is directed by OTSL's Artistic Director, James Robinson, with costumes by Tony Award winning designer Martin Pakledinaz and sets by Bruno Schwengl. Daniel Okulitch stars as Willy Wonka; Timothy Redmond conducts.
Click Here for Information about Single Tickets, available directly from Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis.
