Opera Music Broadcast Webcasts the InsightALT Festival, Live from NYC May 28 - June 3
By: Kelsey Denette May. 23, 2013
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Starting May 28th at 7PM EST, operamusicbroadcast.com will present a live webcast ofInsightALT, a new festival that offers an intimate, inside look into American Lyric Theater's process of creating new creating new operas at all stages of their development.
"not only efficiently reached a much broader audience than what is possible in the house, but the webcast also distributed an operatic experience of the highest artistic quality." Bravo! - GRAYDON ROYCE, Star-Tribune
In New York City? Onsite Tickets for individual events range from $15 to $25. Visit http://www.jccmanhattan.org/opera for more details. LIVE WEBCAST SCHEDULE - operamusicbroadcast.com: Tuesday, May 28th at 7:00 PM Master Class with Catherine Malfitano Explore the unique challenges of being the first singer to create roles in new operas, with one of the world's greatest singing actresses, soprano and director Catherine Malfitano. Featuring excerpts from The Turing Project, La Reina, and The Long Walk, with guest singers Rosa Betancourt, Elise Quagliata, Heather Johnson, Javier Abreu, Jonathan Estabrooks, and Christopher Burchett; and pianist Jody Schum.
Symposium: Fantasizing History How much does historical accuracy matter when adapting real life events for the opera stage? All three operas featured as part of InsightALT are inspired by real life events - but the balance between fact and fiction differs in each piece. Glyndebourne Dramaturg and ALT Artist Mentor Cori Ellison leads this symposium with guests including conductorSteven Osgood, baritone Daniel Belcher, librettist Royce Vavrek, librettist David Simpatico, and composer Jorge Sosa.
The Turing Project: A Concert Reading of Scenes from a New Opera in Development at ALT Music by Justine F. Chen Libretto by David Simpatico FEATURING: Jonathan Estabrooks, Kathryn Guthrie, Elise Quagliata, Kyle Bielfield, Benjamin Robinson, Joseph Beutel and Justin Hopkins; conducted by Keith Chambers.
An iconoclastic thinker and social misfit born to the Edwardian upper class in 1912, Alan Turing was a simple man of extraordinary abilities. His achievements include creating the first universal computer; breaking the Nazi U-Boat code, which proved crucial to the success of the allied forces in WWII; and creating the field of Artificial Intelligence and the future of digital, binary reality. Yet, despite the many benefits Turing's ideas bestowed upon humanity, the British government charged him with Gross Indecency for the crime of being homosexual, and punished him with chemical castration. A year after his sentence was carried out, Turing committed suicide at the age of 41, eating an apple laced with cyanide - according to the official coroner's report. Many speculate that his apparent suicide was inspired by his life-long love of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. But others don't think his death was suicide at all. This new opera imagines the man inside the legend, the unique perspective he had on the universe, the public and unashamed view he had of his own homosexuality, and the impact he had upon the future of civilization.
Symposium: Of Arms and the Man I Sing
THE LONG WALK: A Concert Reading of Scenes from a New Opera in Development at ALT Music by Jeremy Howard Beck Libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann Based on the book The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows by Brian Castner.
LA REINA: A Concert of a New Opera in Development at ALT Music by Jorge Sosa Libretto by Laura Sosa Pedroza
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