Get Your Opera Fix first opera fix for 2018!

The Prototype Festival Starts this week with 4 world Premiers and a free concert at a skating rink, Jerry springer the Opera Comes to Broadway and a new opera about Harriet Tubman – Harriet’s Spirit.

NOTES

• Prototype Festival January 8 – 24
  • Opening Tuesday Jan 9, Acquanetta
    • World Premier
    • By bang on a can co-founder, Composer Michael Gordon and Librettist Deborah Artman
  • Opening Wednesday Jan 10, The Echo Drift
    • World Premier
    • Mikael Karlsson
    • Mix of electronics, live chamber ensemble and features animated visuals
  • Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens
    • Thursday January 11 at 1:40pm, Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park
    • Sunday January 14 at 2:30pm, Denny Ferrell Riverbank State Park Skating Complex (679 Riverside Drive, New York)
    • Skaters are encouraged to be on the Rink during the performance.
  • Opening Thursday January 11, Black Inscription
    • World Premier
    • multimedia contemporary song cycle
    • rock, classical, and pop music
  • Opening January 12, Fellow Travelers
    • Composer Gregory Spears
    • Librettist Greg Pierce
  • Opening Monday Jan 15, IYOV
    • An extraordinary Ukrainian opera named for the Hebrew word for Job, IYOV
• Jerry Springer – The Opera
  • Broadway production from The New Group
  • January 23 – March 11, 2018
• Another opera about Harriet Tubman – Harriet’s Spirit
  • Opera Parallèle
  • With music by jazz composer and bassist Marcus Shelby, libretto by Roma Olvera
  • Jan. 18 & 20 at the Buriel Clay Theater in the African American Art & Culture Complex San Francisco

Credits: Peter Szep reporter/producer/editor