Name: American Apollo (chamber version)
Start: 2022-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Des Moines Metro Ppera

Organization

Des Moines Metro Opera

Singer

Justin Austin

Thomas McKeller

Conductor

David Neely

Stage director

Kimille Howard

Soprano

Mary Dunleavy

Isabella Stewart Gardner

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American Apollo (chamber version) -  (American Apollo)

Indianola

United States

Des Moines Metro Ppera

American Apollo Geter

Public

American Apollo

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzo-soprano

Bass

Tenor

Contralto

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

American Apollo is a new opera based on a story forged at the crossroad of celebrity, class, race, and power in America, giving voice to a pivotal figure in American art: Thomas Eugene McKeller, a Black model who served as inspiration for the famous portraitist, John Singer Sargent. McKeller posed for most of the figures in Sargent's murals at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, but the painter transformed McKeller's figure into white gods and goddesses, creating soaring allegories of the liberal arts that celebrated the recent expansion of the city's premier civic museum. Themes of erasure, the white gaze, and the nature of the relationship between the two men are explored in this powerful new work.

With special contributions from Sargent scholar Nathaniel Silver and drawing on the recent Gardner Museum exhibition Boston's Apollo, this tale of individual courage and breathtaking vulnerability peels the varnish off venerable historical figures to reveal the beating heart and simmering desire beneath Sargent's only uncommissioned monumental male nude. A short performance, discussion, and lecture with Gardner curator Dr. Nathaniel Silver will be presented in July 2022 in collaboration with the Des Moines Art Center and Pyramid Theatre

English

American Apollo by Geter, lø. 23 juli 2022, Fra (2022/2022), I regi av Kimille Howard,, Dirigent David Neely, Des Moines Metro Ppera, Indianola, United States

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Cast

Program, Informasjon & Sammendrag

Bilder

Videre lesning

Forestillingsdatoer og spillesteder

Sted