Digital Shorts Fact Sheet
Commissioned projects:
Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank
Librettist: Nilo Cruz
Project: commissioned revision of Las cinco lunas de Lorca for SATB chorus, countertenor and piano
Visual Artist: Irene Rodríguez
Filmmaker: Matthew Diamond
Performer: countertenor Jacob Ingbar
December 11 through 25, 2020
Composer: Missy Mazzoli
Project: "The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings" (librettist: Royce Vavrek)
Director: James Darrah
Inspired by a scene from Mazzoli's opera Proving Up.
January 15 through 29, 2021
Composer: Ellen Reid
Project: Lumee's Dream, inspired by an excerpt from the opera "p r i s m" (librettist: Roxie Perkins)
Co-Director / Director of Photography: James Darrah
Co-Director / Editor: Adam Larsen
Mezzo-Soprano Soloist: Rebecca Jo Loeb
Viola Soloist: Nadia Sirota
January 29 through February 12, 2021
Composer: Tyshawn Sorey
Project: a setting for alto and piano of "Death," based on the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Film director: Nadia Hallgren
Performer: mezzo-soprano Amana Lynn Bottoms
Composer: Matthew Aucoin
Project: settings of three poems by Jake Skeets ("Afterparty," "How to Become the Moon," "Virginity")
Performers: baritone Davóne Tines, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo
Composer/librettist: David Lang
Project: Song of Songs, for soprano and string ensemble
Performer: soprano Angel Blue
Composer: Tamar-kali
Project: The Opera Murder Club: Jane Doe; new commission
Writer-director: Lila Palmer
Performers: mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, instrumentalists TBA
Composer/librettist: Du Yun
Project: three movements (No-Noha, Climax, Resign) from the one-act opera Zolle
Animation Producer/Curator: Ron Diamond, Acme Filmworks
Composer: Anna Clyne
Project: between the rooms, a setting of a collection of Emily Dickinson's "envelope poems."
Ensemble: soprano and string quartet (two violins, viola, cello, bass)
Composer: Carlos Simon
Librettist: Sandra Seaton
Project: The First Bluebird of the Morning
Choreographer: Jamar Roberts
All programs, artists and dates are subject to change.
Last updated: January 11, 2021
