Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
May 30, 2024, @ 7:30 pm
Every season, Experiments in Opera produces a handful of workshop performances of new works that are just starting out their development journey. These efforts, grouped under the program of Off The Ground, are important investments into the future of not just our programming, but the opera ecosystem as a whole.
Crystal’s Channel
An opera featuring a solo singer with a ventriloquist doll and guitar. She portrays a songwriter who uploads a new, original song everyday to Youtube. The singer and dummy, together, tell the funny and painful story of how she mastered ventriloquism in her adolescence—and how that obsession ended when her mother took her and the doll to an exorcist.
Libretto and Composition: Jason Cady
Soprano and Electric Guitar: Sarah Daniels
Direction: Shannon Sindelar
Produced in association with Alter Ego Chamber Opera
We have added a second show in Philadelphia
Harmonie Hall
4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA
June 2, 2024, at 6:00 PM
Soul’s Unscreened
The first act of an installation opera about a computer scientist deepfaking herself during the Covid-19 pandemic and developing groundbreaking technology in AI and uploading her consciousness to the cloud.
Composition and Electronics: Roger A. Martinez
Libretto and Soprano: Alize Francheska Rozsnyai
Baritone: Tom Sitzler
Mezzo-Soprano: Kaitlyn Tierney
Conductor: Sepehr Pirasteh
Flute: Chelsea Meynig
Piano: Hannah Han
Violin: Rachel Segal
Viola: Veronica Jurkiewicz
Cello: Leigh Brown