We’re joined by Post-goth Punk Diva M. Lamar (identical twin brother of Laverne Cox, “Orange is the New Black”) for a very intense discussion about life as art and his apocalyptic gospel song cycle “Funeral Doom Spiritual” that he will be presenting as part of the fifth Prototype Festival.

Show Notes

• APAP Conference (Association of Performing Arts Presenters)
• Joyce Theater
• American Dance Platform festival
• Dance Mom’s
• L’Amour de Loin
  • Kaija Saariaho
  • Second opera at the met composed by a woman
  • Fourth Woman Opera Conductor at the MET, Susanna Malkki
  • [Correction Sarah Caldwell was first female conductor at the MET, not Eve Queller who was on staff but not the first]
  • Robert LePage
    • The Ring Cycle
  • Metropolitan Opera
    • Jeanine Tesori/Tony Kushner
    • Nixon in China
  • Eric Owens played Jaufre
  • Spectral Music
  • Medieval Music
    • Modal
    • Isorhythms
• Ethyl Smythe – Der Wald
• Einstein On the Beach
• Pelleas and Melisande
  • Debussy
• Messiaen
  • St Francis of Assissi
• Wagner’s Parsifal
• Italo Calvino – author
• Cosmicomics – book
• Invisible Cities – book an Opera composed by Christopher Cerrone
• Moses and Aaron
  • Schoenberg
    • Die Soldaten
    • Pierre Boulez?
• Die Soldaten – Bernd Alois Zimmermann
  • Integral serialization
• Before the Night Sky – American Opera Projects (AOP)
  • Randall Eng – composer
  • Donna DiNovelli – librettist
  • Opera America New Works Forum
• Prototype Festival – Beth Morrison productions and HERE Producers
  • Breaking the Waves
    • Missy Mazzoli – composer
    • Royce Vavrek – librettist
    • Skirball Center
    • based on a Lars Von Trier film
      • Dancer In the Dark
        • Bjork
      • Kirkegaard
      • Brecht
      • Dogville
      • Manderlay
      • Melancholia
  • Mata Hari – Matt Marks + Paul Peers
    • H.E.R.E. Arts Center
    • National Spy Musuem
  • Anatomy Theater by David Lang + Marc Dion
  • Secondary Dominance – Sarah Small
    • Delirium Constructions
• The Sun Also Rises – book
• Salome, Medea,  Carmen
• Overthought Podcast
  • Isaiah Bell/ Chris Mayell
• M. Lamar Interview
  • Liebestod
  • Opera, or the Undoing of Women – book
  • Heidegger
  • Cecil Taylor, a pianist
  • Cornell West
  • Chekhov
  • Diamanda Galas
  • La Voix Humaine
  • Ewartung
  • Marshall McLuhan
  • Kathleen Battle
  • Requiem: Speculum Orum
    • St. John, the Divine
    • Deep River, a spiritual
  • Professor Anthony Paul Farley – Union Theological Seminary
  • James H. Cone
  • Tucker Culbertson
  • “My Lord, What a Morning”
    • Marian Anderson
    • Paul Robeson
  • The Great Day
  • In that Great Getting Up Morning
  • The Cranberries
  • Zombie
    • Xasther
    • Vector
  • Schubert – Death of a Maiden
  • Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
    • Transcendental Black Metal, an essay
  • Liturgy – a band
  • Lee Emerson Rowe
  • ?Colman Skys?
  • John Maus
  • Betthoven
  • Varg
  • Ornette Coleman
  • Negro Anti-Christ, piece by M. Lamarr
  • Hegel
  • Orfeo
  • Mozart
    • The Magic Flute
    • “Porgi Amor” – aria
    • The Marriage of Figaro
    • “Dove Sono” – aria
  • Dido and Aeneas
    • Purcell
  • Sweeney Todd
    • “Johanna”, the judges solo
  • Schopenhauer
  • Jessye Norman
  • Sun Ra
  • P.S. 122
  • Dixon Place
  • Abrons Arts Center
  • National Sawdust
    • Paula Prestini
    • Bosendorfer 2
• PiaNO
  • VPR (Vertical Player Repertory) and The Secret Opera
  • Judith Barnes
  • Lori Laitman – composer
  • Talia Silverman – poet