Opera Grows in Brooklyn Presents LaBoneMe 12/5

Opera Grows in Brooklyn Sunday, December 5th - 7:00 p.m. Galapagos Art Space 16 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn

Featuring
La BoneMe
comedic songs for the sexytime

American Opera Projects presents a hilarious collection of operatic songs on the topic that's usually on your mind while you're at the opera.

"Annus Mirabilis"
by Daniel Felsenfeld
"The Other Laughing Song"
by Becca Anderson and Paul Castles
and
Five Excerpts from
"Positions 1956"
Music by Conrad Cummings
Libretto by Michael Korie
adapted from marriage manuals of the 1950s
1. The Non-Virgin Bride
2. Foreplay
3. The Bride Must Remember
4. Anal Intercourse
5. Sideways

Starring
AOP favorites soprano Katrina Thurman (Romulus, The Golden Gate) and baritone Michael Zegarski (Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Lost Childhood).

Katrina Thurman and Michael Zegarski

Meet our pro creators

A versatile composer on the faculty at The Juilliard School Evening Division, Conrad Cummings has received the following praise from the NYTimes: "Mr. Cummings is his own man;...[with an] impressive ability to change styles...while retaining a compositional image." His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and by the New Jersey, Indianapolis, and Louisville Orchestras. Commissions include Canadian Brass, Opera Delaware, and San Francisco Opera Center. His latest opera, The Golden Gate, received a staged workshop at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center in January 2010, produced by LivelyWorks and AOP. Positions 1956 with libretto by Michael Korie received its premiere production at P.S. 122; tonight is the first performance of the version for soprano, baritone, and piano. FULL BIO

Michael Korie's librettos to operas include The Grapes of Wrath at Minnesota Opera, Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall, Utah Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Carnegie Hall; and The Garden of the Finzi Continis premiering at Minnesota Opera 2012, both composed by Ricky Ian Gordon. Also in progress: Senna, a co-commission of The Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera composed by Michael Torke, directed by Des McAnuff, premieres 2012. Librettos by Korie to StewArt Wallace's operas include Harvey Milk (San Francisco Opera), Hopper's Wife (Long Beach Opera); Kabbalah (DTW/Brooklyn Academy); Where's Dick? (Houston Grand Opera). For theater Korie wrote the lyrics to Grey Gardens composed by Scott Frankel, book by Doug Wright. Following Broadway it has been produced throughout the USA and abroad in Japan. Also with Frankel, Korie wrote lyrics to Happiness, book by John Weidman, direction and choreography by Susan Stroman at Lincoln Center Theater. Korie and Frankel's Finding Neverland will be produced by Weinstein Entertainment, book by Allan Knee, direction and choreography by Rob Ashford, set to premiere next year. With collaborators Lucy Simon and Michael Weller, Korie wrote lyrics to Dr. Zhivago premiering in 2011 in Sydney directed by Des McAnuff. Awards include Rodgers, Kleban, Larson, Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Musical for Grey Gardens and a Tony nomination for its score. He teaches lyric-writing at Yale.

Composer Daniel Felsenfeld has had his work performed by Simone Dinnerstein, Real Quiet, Opera on Tap, the New York City Opera, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Ethel, the Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, Stephanie Mortimore, and Andrew Russo, among others. He has also collaborated with John Wesley Harding, Rick Moody, Mark Z. Danielewski and choreographer Jenny Showalter. Daniel is also the author of eight books and hundreds of articles. He teaches at City College and lives in Brooklyn. His latest work with American Opera Projects, Nora in the Great Outdoors, with a libretto by Will Eno, will workshop in February 2011. FULL BIO

Becca Anderson went to some fancy-pants schools and got expensive degrees. She's written the word parts of some songs, but you haven't heard of any of them. She also wrote some plays you've not seen. She belongs to a guild and a union, but neither of them provide her insurance. Becca enjoys writing bios for concert programs and going hiking. FULL BIO

Since being exiled from Australia for crimes against the treble clef, Paul Castles has lived in New York as an aslyum seeker at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program of NYU. He recently graduated and is once again on the run from the antipodean musico-dramatic police with the generous assistance of American Opera Projects. In the meantime, Paul continues to moonlight as a composer of music theater, opera, and orchestral and chamber music.

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