Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group, Opera Co of Philly Join For Co-Production

Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and The Opera Company of Philadelphia will announce the commission of a new opera composed by Nico Muhly.

Accompanied by Mr. Muhly on piano, singer Jennifer Zetlan will perform music from the opera for the first time ever heard by a live audience.

Composer Nico Muhly, librettist Stephen Karam, director Rebecca Taichman, Gotham Chamber Orchestra Executive Director David Bennett and Artistic Director and conductor Neal Goren, Music-Theatre Group Producing Director Diane Wondisford and The Opera Company of Philadelphia Executive Director David DeVan.

When/
Where: Thursday, October 28

The Chelsea Art Museum (556 West 22nd Street)
7:30 p.m. Press Check-in and arrivals

8:00 p.m. Live Performance

Note: Composer Nico Muhly was born in Vermont in 1981 and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, and is a 2003 graduate of Columbia University with a degree in English Literature. In 2004 he received a Masters in Music from the Juilliard School, where he studied composition under Christopher Rouse and John Corigliano. Muhly's orchestral works have been premiered by the American Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra (It Remains to Be Seen , a commission celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2006), and the Boston Pops (Wish You Were Here, 2007); and Step Music for the Chicago Symphony MusicNOW program. In 2005, the Clare College Choir broadcast Muhly's evensong canticles live on BBC3, and New York's Saint Thomas Church commissioned and performed his Bright Mass with Canons, a work that has entered their regular repertoire. With designer/illustrator Maira Kalman, he created the "finely wrought" (New York Times) cantata on Strunk & White's The Elements of Style that premiered in the New York Public Library, landing him on 2005 year's-best list of New York Magazine. Film credits include his scores for The Reader (2009), Choking Man (2006) and Joshua (2007), and he has worked extensively with Philip Glass as editor, keyboardist, and conductor for numerous film and stage projects. Recently, he conducted excerpts from Einstein on the Beach for a new ballet by Benjamin Millepied at the Opéra de Paris. In October 2007, American Ballet Theater premiered Muhly and Millepied's collaboration From Here On Out. In 2014, Muhly's opera Two Boys will receive its Metropolitan Opera premiere.

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