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UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES: Three World Premiere Opera Films
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UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES: Three World Premiere Opera Films

Thursday, December 02, 2021 @ 19:00

Company: American Opera Projects

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THE AMERICAN OPERA PROJECT AND
THE NYU TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’ GRADUATE MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING PROGRAM &
DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN FOR STAGE & FILM
PRESENT

 

NYU/TISCH ADVANCED OPERA LAB SPRING 2021
WATCH PARTY

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES

December 2, 2021 at 7pm
Event will be held online: AOPTV (aopopera.org)

After five years of developing and producing short operas for live performance, this year the NYU/Tisch Opera Lab moves into the realm of film with three 30-minute operas written in response to the chaotic, momentous year 2020. We are thrilled to explore — through the lens of operatic film — Undiscovered Countries, a set of vital artistic responses to a world inexorably changed by (the events of) 2020.

We are presenting three operas:

Drawing on text and music from the Middle Ages, ETERNAL REST sees a horse-headed priest lead a Catholic Requiem, while those in the pews must reconcile a world situated between continual crisis and the cusp of renaissance.
 
In SHADOW ON THE WALL, a shadow puppet opera, a Blackwater mercenary returns to Sparta, TN to live with his sister, having received a presidential pardon for the murders he committed in Iraq. When he moves in, his sister's loyalty is tested when a shadowy presence demands justice.
 
THE DRAGON TRANSFER chronicles the experiences of four astronauts on the International Space Station during the Covid-19 pandemic. A newly arrived American astronaut sends a device to her college age daughter in quarantine, while an escaped spider aboard the ISS causes mayhem among the crew.

 

This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City department of cultural affairs in partnership with the city council. This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.    
 

 

 

For more information: aopopera.org/events

 

 

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