The partnership between New York City Opera and NYU Skirball Center continues in 2009 in celebration of VOX's 10th Anniversary.Preview the future of opera at VOX 2009, the only program in the country that gives 10 composers the opportunity to hear new works and works-in-progress with full orchestra and professional soloists and offers audiences a sneak peek at the opera of tomorrow.
Events are FREE! RSVP is highly encouraged
7:00pm-8:10pm Katrina Ballads
Music and Libretto by Ted Hearne
Using primary-source texts from politicians such as George Bush and celebrities like Kanye West, Katrina Ballads explores the aftermath of the hurricane in a stylistically diverse musical setting.
No Easy Walk to Freedom
Music and Libretto by Chandler Carter
A chamber opera based on the life of Nelson Mandela, focusing on his 27-year imprisonment and his subsequent election as president. Scenes from his life alternate with the music and dance indigenous to South Africa.
8:30pm-9:30pmMosheh
Music and Libretto by Yoav Gal
A multi-media recreation of the Moses story as an ancient-futuristic ritual, to be premiered at HERE in Fall 2010.
9:45pm-10:30pmSéance on a Wet Afternoon
Music and Libretto by Stephen Schwartz, based on the novel by Mark McShane and screenplay by Bryan Forbes
A psychic and her husband plan an elaborate kidnapping scheme to
legitimize her powers. Commissioned by Opera Santa Barbara for a
world premiere in Fall 2009.
Saturday, May 2:
12:00pm-1:30pmPanel Discussion:
American Opera: Past, Present, Future
Moderator: George Steel, City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director
Panelists: Carlisle Floyd, Mark Adamo, and others to be announced
2:00pm-3:10pm
Invisible Cities
Music and Libretto by Christopher Cerrone
In this hypnotic adaptation of Italo Calvino's imaginative novel, Marco Polo describes his travels through the fantastical cities in Kubla Khan’s empire.
May 1st, 2009
5:00pm-6:30pmComposer Roundtable Discussion
All the VOX 2009 composers join VOX Project Director Yuval Sharon in a dialogue about individual methods, different approaches to the operatic genre, and common themes among their works.
5:00pm-6:30pmComposer Roundtable Discussion
All the VOX 2009 composers join VOX Project Director Yuval Sharon in a dialogue about individual methods, different approaches to the operatic genre, and common themes among their works.
7:00pm-8:10pm Katrina Ballads
Music and Libretto by Ted Hearne
Using primary-source texts from politicians such as George Bush and celebrities like Kanye West, Katrina Ballads explores the aftermath of the hurricane in a stylistically diverse musical setting.
No Easy Walk to Freedom
Music and Libretto by Chandler Carter
A chamber opera based on the life of Nelson Mandela, focusing on his 27-year imprisonment and his subsequent election as president. Scenes from his life alternate with the music and dance indigenous to South Africa.
8:30pm-9:30pmMosheh
Music and Libretto by Yoav Gal
A multi-media recreation of the Moses story as an ancient-futuristic ritual, to be premiered at HERE in Fall 2010.
VOX SECOND LOOK
The Rat Land
Music by Gordon Beeferman, Libretto by Charlotte Jackson
First heard in 2007, VOX performs Scene 2 from this darkly funny and acid-tongued depiction of a dysfunctional family and its youngest member, who hides in a fantasy world she calls the Rat Land.
The Rat Land
Music by Gordon Beeferman, Libretto by Charlotte Jackson
First heard in 2007, VOX performs Scene 2 from this darkly funny and acid-tongued depiction of a dysfunctional family and its youngest member, who hides in a fantasy world she calls the Rat Land.
9:45pm-10:30pmSéance on a Wet Afternoon
Music and Libretto by Stephen Schwartz, based on the novel by Mark McShane and screenplay by Bryan Forbes
A psychic and her husband plan an elaborate kidnapping scheme to
legitimize her powers. Commissioned by Opera Santa Barbara for a
world premiere in Fall 2009.
Saturday, May 2:
12:00pm-1:30pmPanel Discussion:
American Opera: Past, Present, Future
Moderator: George Steel, City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director
Panelists: Carlisle Floyd, Mark Adamo, and others to be announced
2:00pm-3:10pm
Invisible Cities
Music and Libretto by Christopher Cerrone
In this hypnotic adaptation of Italo Calvino's imaginative novel, Marco Polo describes his travels through the fantastical cities in Kubla Khan’s empire.
Armide
Libretto by Heather Raffo
Libretto by Heather Raffo
A passionate political tale of Iraq in 2019, still torn apart by a clash of Iraqi and American forces, and the beautiful celebrity Armide who could quell the surging violence.
3:30pm-4:30pm
Car Crash Opera
Music by Michaela Eremiášová and Jairo Duarte-López, Libretto and Animation by Skip Battaglia
A graphically beautiful and kinetically terrifying 8-minute opera set to animation about a fatal car crash.
VOX SECOND LOOK
Crescent City
Music by Anne LeBaron, Libretto by Douglas Kearney
An eclectic, electronically enhanced score tells a Brechtian tale of Marie Laveau and her voodoo gods, mobilized to save a fictional city after a Katrina-like disaster. First heard in VOX 06.
4:50pm-5:30pm
VOX’s 100th Opera!
A Bird in Your Ear
Music by David Bruce, Libretto by Alasdair Middleton
A colorful, large-scale adaptation of a Russian folktale about a merchant's
son who learns the language of birds. Originally commissioned by Dawn Upshaw for the Graduate Vocal Arts program at Bard College.
3:30pm-4:30pm
Car Crash Opera
Music by Michaela Eremiášová and Jairo Duarte-López, Libretto and Animation by Skip Battaglia
A graphically beautiful and kinetically terrifying 8-minute opera set to animation about a fatal car crash.
VOX SECOND LOOK
Crescent City
Music by Anne LeBaron, Libretto by Douglas Kearney
An eclectic, electronically enhanced score tells a Brechtian tale of Marie Laveau and her voodoo gods, mobilized to save a fictional city after a Katrina-like disaster. First heard in VOX 06.
4:50pm-5:30pm
VOX’s 100th Opera!
A Bird in Your Ear
Music by David Bruce, Libretto by Alasdair Middleton
A colorful, large-scale adaptation of a Russian folktale about a merchant's
son who learns the language of birds. Originally commissioned by Dawn Upshaw for the Graduate Vocal Arts program at Bard College.
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