Name: The Brightness of Light
Start: 2024-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

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Lyric Opera of Kansas City

Conductor

Robert Moody

Video designer

Paul Vershbow

Singer

Soprano

Renée Fleming

Baritone

Rod Gilfry

English

The Brightness of Light

Kansas City

United States

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

The Brightness of Light Puts

Public

Jnanakumar P

Approved

The Brightness of Light, Puts

Composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts and based on letters between Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, this innovative new work is a love letter of its own. Like any creative endeavor, marriage is a collaborative work in progress—a journey in which the end isn’t always what we imagined when we started. Against projections of O’Keefe’s floral figments, the letters paint the shifting shape of love over decades. Alongside Stieglitz’s candid compositions, we sense the fleeting fragility of the moment and our desperation to make it last a little longer. Painting in layers, Puts’ song cycle gives each letter new life, connecting contrasting ways of seeing the world. From the deserts of New Mexico to city streetscapes to roads less traveled in between, we see complementary visions for what life and art could be.

The Brightness of Light by Puts, From (2024/2024), Conductor Robert Moody, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, United States

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