Works & Process at the Guggenheim Presents SANTA FE OPERA

On Sunday and Monday, April 9 and 10, 2017 at 7:30pm, Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents performance highlights and moderated discussion with Grammy-nominated American Composer Mason Bates on his first opera, The (Re)volution of Steve Jobs prior to its world premiere with Santa Fe Opera. Librettist Mark Campbell, and director Kevin Newbury will also share insights on the creative process and musical excerpts will be performed by Edward Parks, Sarah Coit, Garrett Sorenson, Wei Wu, and Jessica Jones, with guitarist James Moore and conductor and accompanist Robert Tweten.

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs will have its world premiere at The Santa Fe Opera in the Summer of 2017, opening July 22.

Tickets & Venue

$40, $35 Guggenheim members and Friends of Works & Process. $10 Student Rush Tickets available one hour prior to each performance if space allows (for students under 25 with valid ID).

Box Office (212) 423-3575, (M-F, 1-5pm) or online at worksandprocess.org

Peter B. Lewis Theater

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue, New York

Mason Bates is a Grammy nominated American composer of symphonic music and DJ of electronic dance music. Distinguished by his innovations in orchestration and large-scale form,Bates is best known for his expansion of the orchestra to include electronics. The second-most performed living composer in the United States,he has worked closely with the San Francisco Symphony and recently ended a three-year term as composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was recently named composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (their first ever composer-in-residence appointment), starting this fall and through the 2017-18 season.

Mark Campbell's work as a librettist is at the forefront of this country's current boon in contemporary opera. The fifteen plus librettos he has written-and the five new operas he premieres in 2017- demonstrate a versatility in subject matter, style, and tone, an adeptness at creating successful work for both large and intimate venues. The composers with whom he collaborates represent a roster of the most eminent composers in classical music, and include three Pulitzer Prize winners. Mark's most known work is Silent Night, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music and is one of the most frequently performed operas in recent history. After its premiere at Minnesota Opera, the work was broadcast on PBS' Great Performances and continues to be produced by many opera companies around the country. His other successful operas include As One, Later the Same Evening, Volpone, Bastianello/Lucrezia, Manchurian Candidate The Inspector, Approaching Ali, A Letter to East 11th Street, and most recently, The Shining. Mark has received many other prestigious prizes for his work, including a Grammy® nomination for Best Classical Recording, the first Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist, two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Drama Desk nominations, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, the first Dominic J. Pelliciotti Award, and a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts.

Kevin Newbury is an opera, theatre, film and event director based in New York City. Kevin has directed over fifty original productions and his work has been presented by many top opera companies, festivals and symphonies including the Park Avenue Armory, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Barcelona Liceu, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Minnesota Opera, The San Francisco Symphony, L'Opera de Montreal, The Prototype Festival, Urban Arias (DC), Bard Summerscape, Portland Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Cincinnati Opera, The Virginia Arts Festival and The Wexford Festival in Ireland, among many others. Kevin is especially committed to developing and directing new work. He has directed over two dozen world premiere operas and plays, many of which were subsequently published or recorded. Recent world premiere highlights include Spears/Pierce's Fellow Travelers (Cincinnati Opera), Todd Almond's Kansas City Choir Boy (starring Almond and Courtney Love, seen at Prototype, American Repertory Theatre/Boston, the Kirk Douglas Theatre/LA, Arscht Center/Maimi), Spears/Vavrek's O Columbia (Houston Grand Opera), Puts/Campbell's The Manchurian Candidate and Cuomo/Shanley's Doubt (Minnesota Opera), and Lopez/Cruz's Bel Canto (Lyric Opera of Chicago, soon to be broadcast on PBS' Great Performances and recently nominated for the 2016 International Opera Awards: Best World Premiere).

The Santa Fe Opera

Every July and August since 1957, opera lovers have been drawn to the magnificent northern New Mexico mountains to enjoy productions by one of the world's premier summer opera festivals. Here, The Santa Fe Opera's dramatic adobe theater blends harmoniously with the high desert landscape. It is this fusion of nature and art that leaves such an enduring impression on all who come. More than half the audience of 85,000 comes from outside New Mexico, representing every state in the union as well as 25 to 30 foreign countries.

More than 2,000 performances of nearly 164 different operas have been given here, including 14 world premieres and 45 American premieres, among them Lulu, The Cunning Little Vixen, Capriccio, and Daphne. Recent premieres include the world premiere of Madame Mao (2003) by Bright Sheng, the American premiere of Thomas Ades's The Tempest (2006), the American premiere of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul (2007), the world premiere of The Letter (2009) by Paul Moravec, and the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon's Cold Mountain (2015).

Casts are drawn from the world's most talented young singers, and production teams of conductors, directors, and designers are international as well. Many singers whose names are now found on the rosters of the world's leading opera houses began their careers in Santa Fe. They include William Burden, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Fabiano, Brandon Jovanovich, Kate Lindsay, Jay Hunter Morris, and Susanna Phillips.

Works & Process at the Guggenheim
For over 31 years and in over 400 productions, New Yorkers have been able to see, hear, and meet the most acclaimed artists in the world, in an intimate setting unlike any other. Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, has championed new works and offered audiences unprecedented access to generations of leading creators and performers. Each performance takes place in the Guggenheim's intimate Frank Lloyd Wright-designed 285-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater. Described bythe New York Times as "an exceptional opportunity to understand something of the creative process," Works & Process is produced by founder Mary Sharp Cronson. worksandprocess.org.