Name: Knot an Opera!
Start: 2018-06-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-06-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Baruch Performing Arts Center

Organization

Stage director

Michael Humann

Conductor

Whitney George

Lighting designer

Jenn Burnhardt

Set designer

Michael Minahan

Singer

Joanie Brittingham

Soprano

Francesca Federico

Andy Dwan

Baritone

Cara Search

Mezzo Soprano

Fresh Squeezed Opera

Knot an Opera!

New York City

United States

Baruch Performing Arts Center

Knot an Opera! Basica

Public

Approved

produced by Fresh Squeezed Opera on 6/28/2018

Constantin Basica, composer
Joanie Brittingham, soprano
Francesca Federico, lyric soprano
Sarah Dutcher, piano
Cara Search, mezzo soprano
Andy Dwan, baritone

Whitney George, conductor
Michael Hofmann, director

NYC PREMIERE. OPERA? OPERA WHAT? WHAT IS THIS? IS THIS OPERA? — [*This opera*] This work [*knots*] binds operatic practices with elements from old and new media (e.g., TV, YouTube) into a chain of [*preposterous*] ludicrous [*events*] episodes. Disparate pieces [*with*] of text—original or [*appropriated*] quoted—generate [*symbols*] characters and situations on the border between the mundane and the absurd. #PostOpera #KnowYourMeme #FunnyCats

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"Knot an Opera! aspires to live—similarly to many of my recent works—on the edge between solemn and mocking, ambitious and trivial, (melo)dramatic and comic, traditional and experimental. It has many facets and aims to both surprise and confuse the audience. Above all, my intent was to simultaneously honor the genre of opera and to play with aspects of it that I find problematic. I did not compose this piece specifically for operagoers, but rather for anyone willing to either step into or outside the world of opera. Special thanks to Teodor Basica and Simona Fitcal for all their support in the making of this work." - Constantin Basica

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