Name: Magdalene
Start: 2024-06-04
End: 2024-06-04
Location: REDCAT

Organization

Admin

Beth Morrison Projects

Conductor

Mila Henry

Marc Lowenstein

Singer

Danielle Birrittella

Soloist

Ariana Daub

Stage director

Zoe Aja Moore

Magdalene

Los Angeles

United States

REDCAT

Magdalene: Magdalene Various

Public

Alejandro Alberto Giess Sarmiento

Approved

Magdalene is a chamber opera in thirteen movements—a wild meditation on transformation and desire scored by the collective voice of fourteen women composers: Leila Adu, Ruby Kato Attwood, Danielle Birritetella, Sheena Birrittella, Christina Courtin, Gabrielle Herbst, Molly Joyce, Emma O’Halloran, Tanner Porter, Ellen Reid, Kamala Sankaram, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Annika Socolofsky, and Gyða Valtýsdóttir. Set to Marie Howe’s Magdalene poems, the opera invites an audience into the interior world of the biblical figure Mary Magdalene—enlarging her to cross time and space, she appears as a woman alive now, who strives to heal the unyielding split between the sacred and the sexual. Encountering her life in flashes—wandering through a hotel, lighting birthday candles, making love in the ocean—Magdalene finds transcendence in the mundane to finally become the subject of her own story.

CREATIVE TEAM
CO-CREATOR & PERFORMER
DANIELLE BIRRITTELLA

CO-CREATOR & DIRECTOR
ZOE AJA MOORE⁣

POETRY
MARIE HOWE⁣

COMPOSERS
LEILA ADU, RUBY KATO ATTWOOD, DANIELLE BIRRITTELLA, SHEENA BIRRITTELLA, CHRISTINA COURTIN, GABRIELLE HERBST, MOLLY JOYCE, EMMA O’HALLORAN, TANNER PORTER, KAMALA SANKARAM, BERGRÚN SNÆBJÖRNSDÓTTIR, ANNIKA SOCOLOFSKY, and GYDA VALTÝSDÓTTIR

ADDITIONAL MUSIC
ELLEN REID⁣

MUSIC DIRECTORS
MILA HENRY & MARC LOWENSTEIN⁣

STARRING
DANIELLE BIRRITTELLA and ARIANA DAUB

English

Magdalene by Various, Tue 04 Jun 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Zoe Aja Moore,, Conductor Mila Henry, Marc Lowenstein, REDCAT, Los Angeles, United States

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