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[…] mixed reality opera for five voices, string quintet, soundscape, and AR app. Audiences are led through city streets by one of five modern-day Joans of Arc, experiencing her visions and battling occupying forces of greed and corruption. Developed with Kristin Marting using texts by formerly homeless women, Joan explores homelessness, mental health, addiction, and abuse. Opera Orlando | operaorlando.org The Secret River (a new opera for all audiences based on the book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings) Music by Stella C.Y. Sung, libretto by Mark Campbell The Secret River is a one-act opera for all audiences based on the Peabody Award-winning book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, with music by fellow Floridian Stella Sung and libretto by Mark Campbell. The work depicts the story of a young African American girl who helps her family survive during the Great Depression by trusting her imagination. Scheduled to premiere in December 2021, The Secret River […]
2018-06-15 07:00:00
Dallas NewsThe popular Dallas restaurant and music venue Gas Monkey Bar N' Grill is suing its founder, Richard Rawlings, for defamation and deliberate and...
2017-08-11 17:33:06
The artist prefers to sidle his way into traditions unobtrusively
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2016-12-12 16:17:43
Masterful or muddled? The controversial opera and ballet hybrid that heralded the dawn of The Royal Opera
[…] Garden Opera Company, on the other hand, was newly formed, and while many of its singers were already well-known opera stars of the era, these performances of The Fairy-Queen were the Company’s first chance to introduce itself to the London audience. The production featured choreography by Frederick Ashton , the ballet company’s resident choreographer, and designs by the acclaimed artist and writer Michael Ayrton . Ballet dancer Robert Helpmann starred as Oberon with actress Margaret Rawlings as Titania, the tenor Edgar Evans as the God of the Birds and actor Michael Hordern as Bottom. Images from the Roger Wood and Frank Sharman Photographic Collections , held by ROH Collections, show sumptuous production values and striking costumes. However, reactions from contemporary newspapers were mixed. Some commentators lauded it as a ‘feast of enchantment to the eye’ but others questioned its impact, arguing that the production appealed neither to ballet, […]
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