Mostly Modern Festival - Aria from Three Way
Performance of an aria from Three Way, performers TBA.
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Performance of an aria from Three Way, performers TBA.
American Modern Ensemble performs In Real Life, a song cycle about online dating with text by David Cote, Marnie Breckenridge, soprano, and selected arias from Three Way, a trio of comic operas about craving and connection, libretto by David Cote, to be premiered by Nashville Opera and also performed at BAM, June 15-18, 2017. (Photo Credit: Ricardo Birnbaum)
Performance of Thursday for soprano and piano (texts based on fictitious answering machine messages) by The Curiosity Cabinet, Justine Aronson, soprano, and Melinda Faylor, piano.
Opera on Tap presents a program entitled Opera Meets Vaudeville: An Evening with Trav SD, featuring arias from Three Way, libretto by David Cote, as well as music by David Mallamud, Henry Akona, and Edward Einhorn. $10 suggested donation. Featuring David Gordon, Seth Gilman, Anne Hiatt, David Macaluso, Cameron Russell, and Krista Wozniak with Christopher Berg tinkling the piano keys.
World premiere of The Whole Truth, a new opera by Robert Paterson and Mark Campbell, based on a short story by Stephen McCauley. A woman confesses an affair to her psychiatrist, but cleans up the details in order not to seem too sordid. Her fabrications lead to awkward questions and complications.
Lyric Baritone Daniel Ihasz performs CAPTCHA for baritone and piano on a faculty recital at SUNY Fredonia. Other works include Brahms Liebeslieder and Act IV Finale from Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as performances by other faculty members.
Pre-premiere performance of CAPTCHA for baritone and piano, Daniel Ihasz, baritone and Eli Kalman, piano.
World premiere of a new work entitled Ghost Theater for two female singers and large chamber ensemble, with optional film, for the Albany Symphony's Dog of Desire and film by Jay Craven, conducted by David Allan Miller. Commissioned by the Albany Symphony and David Allan Miller.
Unstaged world premieres of the piano reduction of two arias from Safe Word, the first of three one-act operas from Three-Way (formerly titled Fetish), libretto by David Cote, and a song entitled CAPTCHA, with text made from random CAPTCHA texts.
Arias and excerpts presented from Invisible Child (un-staged piano reduction performance).