Live Stream Only: Cutting-Edge Composers at Brandeis University!!

Guerilla Opera’s season starts Saturday, March 14, 2020!

Due to increased safety regulations Brandeis University will not allow public at the Emergence Composer Fellowship Showcase. This is for your and our safety. So with the help from the Slosberg Music Center, rather than shutting down, we will be live streaming these world premiere one-act operas in development by composers from our inaugural Emergence Composer Fellowship.

Featured composers and librettists include: Leah Reid, Caroline Louise Miller, Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei (دانیال رضا سبزقبایی) and Mina Salehpour (librettist), Jeremy Rapaport-Stein, and Niko Yamamoto and Athanasia Giannetos (librettist).

Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 7:30pm

Emergence Fellowship Showcase

Slosberg Recital Hall at Brandeis University, Waltham MA

https://www.brandeis.edu/streaming/music/

WORLD PREMIERE OPERAS

The Angle of Darkness with music by Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei and libretto by Mina Salehpour

Cranberries with music by Leah Reid and text from poetry by Gertrude Stein

The Monster with music and libretto by Jeremy Rapaport-Stein

Clapping-Game Songbook with music and libretto by Caroline Louise Miller

The Yellow Bird Log composed by Niko Yamamoto and libretto by Athanasia Giannetos

Guerillas featured in the ensemble include soprano Felicia Chen (debut), soprano Mary Mackenzie (debut), baritone Brian Church, clarinetist Amy Advocat, saxophonist Philipp Stäudlin, and percussionist Mike Williams, with dramaturgy and stage direction by Brenda Huggins, stage direction by Athanasia Giannetos, lighting design by Keithlyn Parkman and production design by Julia Noulin-Mérat.

Guerilla Opera’s Emergence Composer Fellowship was created to fill a gap in the current landscape of opera development, and addresses directly the need for apprenticeships for emerging professional composers and librettists to gain experience writing theatrical music, learn about their own creative practices, and have more insight into the process of opera production.

The Fellowship is funded in part by OPERA America’s Innovation Grant which supports exceptional projects that have the capacity to strengthen the field’s most important areas of practice, including artistic vitality, audience experience, organizational effectiveness and community connections.

As one of the first strictly contemporary opera companies in the country, the ensemble finds it imperative to be at the forefront of the musical community. The fellowship engages high-level composers selected from an open call for proposals, which can be one act operas, scenes from a larger work, or a short work of concert theater.  They work directly with the ensemble’s experienced performers, dramaturg and designers for an entire season with a libretto reading, music and theater workshops, culminating with a showcase concert.

This program is made possible through the generosity of an Opera America Innovation Grant and through partnerships with Brandeis University and HC Media of Haverhill, MA. This season is supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for New Music, The Amphion Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and the Boston Cultural Council, as well as through additional partnership with Boston Conservatory at Berklee.