In The Angle of Darkness a woman recounts a time in her life when she moved to a new place as a young girl and was shocked to find that in this place, dolls were created to be faceless.
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A modern-day adaptation of the well-known epic poem, with music and libretto by Hannah Lash, in which Beowulf is a doctor caring for his elderly mother and suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress upon his return from a recent war.
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A cattle farm in rural Ohio faces imminent bank foreclosure. With only a trophy wife and a slow-witted man child as laborers, the owner and operator invents a machine to quickly slaughter his herd.
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Adapted from the play by Henry Carey and with music by Andy Vores, this parody of the high-blown style of operatic libretti attacks the amorality and depravity of the rich, privileged, and powerful, with a powerful setting “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold.
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Clapping-game Songbook starts and ends with three oracles skipping stones upon a glassy calm ocean. Each of four songs mystically evokes various spaces, sights, and sensations in the world of 2020.
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Cranberries is a micro-opera for 2 sopranos, baritone, percussion, and electronics, that explores food preparation, cooking, kitchen sounds, and the rhythms, ideas, and themes present in Gertrude Stein’s Cranberries from “Tender Buttons.”
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A ghostly new opera weaving together eerie stories by Anton Chekhov that explore the commonalities of experiences with the unknown.
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A ghostly new opera weaving together eerie stories by Anton Chekhov that explore the commonalities of experiences with the unknown.
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A multimedia and immersive opera, based on true stories of Ellis Island immigrants, reminding us that we are all wanderers looking for a place to call home and embraces empathy for the immigrant experience.
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Commissioned for Guerilla Opera’s 2020 Let’s Make a Sandwich project, and inspired by the 1950’s short film from the American Gas Association.
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An avant-garde work of opera theater by Ken Ueno that investigates how the landscape and human kind shape and transform each other, and addresses the fundamental question of ontology, “the chicken or the egg,”
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A new opera that breaks down and explores our assumptions of the various meanings of love through a life-changing journey of one man, based on the life of Rumi.
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A dark and comic new opera that tells of a scientist’s successful experiment of implanting human glands into the body of a stray dog, but living with the dog-woman proves disastrous for all.
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A multimedia opera and surrealist drama that follows two Chinese-American women who meet in the afterlife and explores conflicts between their Western upbringing and Chinese culture. Exploring familial issues of immigration from the often overlooked multigenerational perspective of Asian women, this opera further investigates themes of identity and place.
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An opera film inspired by a singular Bostonian woman and her efforts to affect change through the Women’s Peace Movement, Women’s Suffrage and in her professional work as a landscape architect.
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A site-specific chamber opera inspired by a singular Bostonian woman and her efforts to affect change through the Women’s Peace Movement, Women’s Suffrage and in her professional work as a landscape architect.
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Loose, Wet, Perforated, inspired by medieval morality plays, is the tale of “Loose” and “Wet,” who undergo various trials to climb in rank in their secret Guild.
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