Organization

Conductor

Tianhui Ng

Stage director

Sam Helfrich

Set designer

Dedalus Wainwright

Costume designer

Rebecca Kanach

Sound designer

Jon Robertson

Lighting designer

Derek Van Heel

Video designer

Greg Emetaz

Choreographer

Gianni Di Marco

Chorus master

Timothy Steele

Pianist

Singer

Carami Hilaire

Tiamat

Tyler Putnam

Marduk

Mard

Daniel Moody

Qingu

Cooper

Charles Calotta

Mummu

Mr. Mu

John Paul Huckle

Apsu

General Aps

White Snake Projects

Others

Boston Children's Chorus

Orchestra

Juventas New Music Ensemble

Cosmic Cowboy

Boston

United States

Emerson Paramount Center

Public

Approved

Traverse the mysteries of time, space and love, through wormholes and black holes, in this sci-fi opera that blends live staging and virtual reality. Inspired by both the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock and the historic landing of the space probe Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Cosmic Cowboy meditates on both the power of human imagination and the consequences of our colonizing impulse.

The opera is an eclectic romp through the universe that ranges from the formation of the cosmos by the mating of the Sumerian gods Tiamat and Apsu to a touching pas de deux between Cooper, a robotic space probe, and Tiamat’s daughter, Tia.

English

Cosmic Cowboy by Ruehr, From (2022/2022), Directed by Sam Helfrich,, Conductor Tianhui Ng, Emerson Paramount Center, Boston, United States

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Ensemble

Program, About & Synopsis

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