Photos from New Shorts on February 9, 2013 featuring works by Robert Ashley, Jason Cady, Joe Diebes, Ruby Fulton, Gabrielle Herbst, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Aaron Siegel, Justin Tierney, Leaha Maria Villarreal, and Matthew Welch
Photos from New Shorts on February 9, 2013 featuring works by Robert Ashley, Jason Cady, Joe Diebes, Ruby Fulton, Gabrielle Herbst, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Aaron Siegel, Justin Tierney, Leaha Maria Villarreal, and Matthew Welch
Wow! We are all still reeling from the tremendous show last weekend. We are planning on posting a photo album in the next week, but in the meantime, here is the intro video we shared at the concert, directed by Louisa Proske.
Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new operas that last no more than 10 minutes. These new works will be premiered by the contemporary music ensemble Hotel Elefant on February 9, 2013 at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.
Purchase tickets at Issueprojectroom.org.
There will be a Q and A conversation with all New Shorts composers and moderated by James Holt at 6:30 on February 9 before the concert.
The featured composers are:
Robert Ashley | Jason Cady | Joe Diebes | Ruby Fulton | Gabrielle Herbst | Mary Kouyoumdjian | Aaron Siegel | Justin Tierney | Leaha Maria Villarreal | Matthew Welch
Directored by Louisa Proske, David Levine, Britt Olsen-Ecker
Performances by Paolo Bortolameolli, Hannis Brown, Meagan Brus , Peter Bussigel, Nicole Camacho, Christina Campanella, Lucy Dhegrae, Erin Flannery, Domenica Fossati, David Friend, Jeff Gavett, Seth Gilman, Nick Gleason, Ariadne Greif, Elisabeth Halliday, Jonathon Hampton, Gabrielle Herbst, Isabel Kim, Lisa Komara, George Lam, Michelle Lou, Shawn Lovato, Robert Maril, Devin Provenzano, Anne Rhodes, Jon Russell, Mark Smith, Andie Springer, Kirsten Volness, Lindsey Warford, Meg Zervoulis
This project is supported by:
In support of our upcoming ‘New Shorts’ event at Issue Project Room in February 2013 we hosted a benefit concert and mingle on Sunday December 2 at Spectrum on the Lower East Side.
The concert featured performances by ‘New Shorts’ partners, Hotel Elefant, as well as Experiments in Opera Co-founders Aaron Siegel, Matthew Welch and Jason Cady, and special guest John Zorn.
The Experiments in Opera Spring Series at Roulette in Brooklyn on May 10-11, 2012 was a huge success! Enthusiastic audiences were thrilled to finally see full versions of Jason Cady’s ‘Happiness is the Problem’ and Matthew Welch’s ‘Borges and the Other’ as well as excerpts from Aaron Siegel’s ‘Brother Brother’ and Cough Button’s ‘To Scale. Here are some photos from the two days of events:
Following up on the tremendous success of our inaugural concert in January 2012, Experiments in Opera presents two evenings of works at Roulette in Brooklyn on May 10 & 11, 2012.
May 10 will feature work-in-progress presentations of Brother Brother by Aaron Siegel and To Scale by Cough Button as well as a full production of Happiness is the Problem by Jason Cady.
May 11 will be devoted to a partly staged production of Borges and the Other by Matthew Welch.
For more information or to buy tickets, visit roulette.org.
On April 5, 2012, Experiments in Opera hosted a benefit event in support of the upcoming Spring Series at Roulette on May 10-11, 2012. The menu for the event featured performances of Aperghis, Monteverdi, Chopin and Why Lie? and a tasty menu designed by New York Times Food Columnist Melissa Clark. Here are some of the pictures from the evening.
Please consider a donation to the Spring Series Fundraising Campaign on IndieGoGo
Our inaugural Experiments in Opera Festival on January 16, 2012 was an enormous success. We had a packed and attentive crowd at (le) Poisson Rouge for what was a remarkable evening of performances. Here are some of the photos from the evening to give you a sense of the energy of the event.
Experiments in Opera is a composer and performer-driven festival, featuring recent and new works with unorthodox answers to the traditional questions about how to connect words, story and music. This inaugural event at Le Poisson Rouge on January 16, 2012 at 7:30 will feature excerpts from four works:
Borges and the Other with music by Matthew Welch and a text adapted from Jorge Luis Borge
Happiness is the Problem with music by Jason Cady, libretto by Nadia Berenstein, Jason Cady, and Amy Cimini and graphics by Nadia Berenstein
Sextuor: l’origine des especes with music by George Aperghis and
a libretto by François Reginault and Georges Aperghis (based on texts by Charles Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould)
Brother Brother with music and words by Aaron Siegel.
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