3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 12 :: ROYCE VAVREK on KATHLEEN EDWARDS
[box]Editor's note: I am so pleased to have this particular crossover in this year's series - for it was largely via early attention to Vavrek's incredible and prolific output as a librettist for the new music community (see earlier entries
SOUND / STAGE :: DOG DAYS
Dog Days from Beth Morrison Projects on Vimeo. DOG DAYS [World Premiere] September 29 - Oct 5 David T. Little’s long-awaited debut full-length opera, Dog Days, created in collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek, and based on the eponymous short story by Judy Budnitz (1998), opens
SOUND/STAGE: Song from the Uproar
SONG FROM THE UPROAR is a "multimedia chamber opera" ...and is like nothing you've ever seen. Marrying intensely rigorous avant classical music from the visionary new composer Missy Mazzoli, with the filmic, aesthetic vision of Stephen Taylor, SONG FROM THE UPROAR is a personal, ecstatic, and immersive response to the life of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904)-- an inspiring and little known tale in which the show's creators found "vibrant and relevant" parallels to their own: to the universal struggles for love and self-discovery in which we all take part.
