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Ausrine Stundyte as Cio-Cio-San, Elizabeth Janes as Butterfly’s child and Sarah Larsen as Suzuki in Seattle Opera's production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Photo by Elise Bakketun.
Building a House
CD#: 2 - Track#: 5

 COMPOSER
Lori Laitman
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Lori Laitman has composed two operas, an oratorio, choral works and over 200 songs, setting the words of classical and contemporary poets, among them the lost voices of poets who perished in the Holocaust. The Journal of Singing has written: “It is difficult to think of anyone before the public today who equals her exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music.” Laitman has been featured on Thomas Hampson’s Song of America website and radio series, and The Grove Dictionary of American Music will include an entry on Laitman in their 2012 edition. In May 2013, Opera Colorado will present the professional world premiere of her opera, The Scarlet Letter. For more information, please visit http://www.artsongs.com and http://www.scarletletteropera.com.
LYRICIST
Joyce Sutphen
Joyce Sutphen’s first collection of poems, Straight Out of View, won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize; Coming Back to the Body was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award and Naming the Stars won a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.  In 2005, Red Dragonfly Press published Fourteen Sonnets in a letterpress edition. She is one of the co-editors of To Sing Along the Way, an award-winning anthology of Minnesota women poets. Sutphen is also a Renaissance scholar and has published essays on Shakespeare’s sonnets. She grew up on a farm in Stearns County, MN, and she teaches literature and creative writing at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. Her latest collection, First Words, is a “memoir in poems,” and was published in 2010. She is the second Minnesota Poet Laureate, succeeding Robert Bly.
VOCALIST
Jennifer Check

PIANIST
Lori Laitman
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Lori Laitman has composed two operas, an oratorio, choral works and over 200 songs, setting the words of classical and contemporary poets, among them the lost voices of poets who perished in the Holocaust. The Journal of Singing has written: “It is difficult to think of anyone before the public today who equals her exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music.” Laitman has been featured on Thomas Hampson’s Song of America website and radio series, and The Grove Dictionary of American Music will include an entry on Laitman in their 2012 edition. In May 2013, Opera Colorado will present the professional world premiere of her opera, The Scarlet Letter. For more information, please visit http://www.artsongs.com and http://www.scarletletteropera.com.


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