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NO EXIT by Andy Vores
June 9, 2023 @ Bread and Salt Gallery as produced by Project [BLANK]
Chamber opera adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre’s existentialist play in one act. Three strangers are ushered into a room, only to realize that they are destined to spend the rest of their miserable eternity confined together in close quarters. In this aria, Inez has finally begun to accept that life on earth is moving on without her.
Paradise TBD by Clinton McCallum
May 28, 2022 @ Bread and Salt Gallery as produced by Project [BLANK]
Chamber opera for five singers and electronics. In this aria, the character Nowhere guides Samuel Salvage back to the raft with the others with her siren song.
HARAWI: chant d'amour et de mort Mvmt VI. Répétition planétaire by Olivier Messiaen
May 30th, 2021 at The Front Arte Cultura Gallery in San Ysidro, CA.
with Brendan Nguyen, pianist and Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, Video Artist
HANJO (2004), scene IV Music and libretto by Toshio Hosokawa Presented by Project [BLANK] and Twisted Heart Puppetworks San Diego, CA | October 3rd, 2020 This film was produced for Catapult Opera’s ACCELERATE competition. The musical selection was provided by the competition panel, and the team had three weeks to plan and produce their submission. All puppetry was designed, built, performed, and filmed by Tania Yager and Twisted Heart Puppetworks. Many of the twenty-four handmade puppets were made from recycled materials. The musical arrangement of the score was made by Brendan Nguyen by amplifying, recording, and assembling sounds from his home piano. All sonic elements of this orchestration are derived exclusively from the piano. In accordance with the competition’s instructions to maintain best social distancing practices, all musical and visual components were developed by each artist in their own home, recorded individually, and assembled to create the final product. Leslie Ann Leytham | mezzo-soprano Jonathan Nussman | baritone Brendan Nguyen | piano and arrangement Tania Yager | design and puppetry Joe Cantrell | audio engineering, mixing, and video editing
HANJO (2004), scene IV Music and libretto by Toshio Hosokawa
Presented by Project [BLANK] and Twisted Heart Puppetworks San Diego, CA, October 3rd, 2020
This film was produced for Catapult Opera’s ACCELERATE competition. In accordance with the competition’s instructions to maintain best social distancing practices, all musical and visual components were developed by each artist in their own home, recorded individually, and assembled to create the final product.
with Jonathan Nussman, baritone | Brendan Nguyen, piano and arrangement | Tania Yager, design and puppetry | Joe Cantrell, audio engineering, mixing, and video editing
"Wie Lange Noch?" by Kurt Weill
September 25, 2021 at St James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California.
with Bryan Verhoye, pianist
Manoalchadia by Chaya Czernowin
February 16, 2019 with wasteLAnd at ArtShare-LA
with Stephanie Aston, soprano and Rachel Beetz, flute