LA Opera has commissioned some of today’s most in-demand composers to create a series of short vocal works.
These superstars are pairing up with talented visual artists including animators, experimental filmmakers and choreographers to bring you a number of new pieces throughout the fall and early winter.
Left to right: Du Yun, Gabriela Lena Frank, Missy Mazzoli, Tamar-kali, David Lang, Tyshawn Sorey, Matthew Aucoin
Check out some of the early details for these projects below, but be sure to check back here as we share more.
Composer: ELLEN REID
Project: Lumee's Dream, based on an excerpt from the opera prism (librettist: Roxie Perkins)
Performer: mezzo-soprano Rebecca Jo Loeb
Filmmaker: James Darrah
Composer: Missy Mazzoli
Project: "The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings" (librettist: Royce Vavrek)
Visual Artist James Darrah
Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank
Project: commissioned revision of Las cinco lunas de Lorca (text by Nilo Cruz)
Performers: SATB chorus, countertenor and piano
Visual Artist: Irene Rodríguez
Filmmaker: Matthew Diamond
Composer: Tyshawn Sorey
Project: a setting for alto and piano of "Death," based on the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Film director: Nadia Hallgren
Soloist: Amanda 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: The Gorgeous Nothings, setting of a collection of Emily Dickinson's envelope poems
Performers: soprano and string quintet (two violins, viola, cello, bass)
