Tag: opera

Christian Baldini Interview
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Christian Baldini

Recently, I inter­viewed conductor/composer Chris­t­ian Bal­dini for the San Fran­cisco Con­tem­po­rary Music Play­ers. Chris­t­ian is con­duct­ing a piece by French com­poser, Philippe Hurel for SFCMP’s upcom­ing con­cert on April 26. Bal­dini is an Argen­tine musi­cian by birth, cur­rently teach­ing con­duct­ing at UC Davis near San Francisco.

Inter­est­ingly enough, in the process of the inter­view, we dis­cov­ered we have some things in com­mon, includ­ing a love of con­tem­po­rary music and new opera!

28 Feb 2010
Oksana G. Orchestra Reading
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The Cana­dian Opera Com­pany does a rehearsed read­ing of one scene from the opera I am devel­op­ing with Colleen Mur­phy and Tapes­try New Opera. This is the same scene that was work­shopped in Banff in August 2009. This scene includes sev­eral of the prin­ci­pal roles, the cho­rus, full orches­tra, and an elec­tronic component.

8:00pm, Jackman Studios
227 Front Street East (map)
Toronto, Canada
www.tapestrynewopera.com    www.coc.ca    
Tapestry New Opera Works — Opera​.ca
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A long-term pro­ject of mine is mov­ing for­ward this year. Tapes­try New Opera applied for and received fund­ing from Opera​.ca to pro­duce the first act of the opera I have been devel­op­ing with libret­tist, Colleen Mur­phy. We’ll be involved in round­table dis­cus­sions on the opera in Toronto this spring, and I will be com­pos­ing the music for one act of the opera, to be work­shopped at the Banff Cen­tre in August of this year. The act will then be fully pro­duced in the first part of 2010. More details to fol­low as they become available.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. (2006)
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Instru­men­ta­tion: sop, ten, bari, clar, perc, pno, vln, vc, cb
Dura­tion: 15’00
Com­mis­sioned by Tapes­try New Opera Works
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Pro­gramme Note

I wrote this cham­ber opera for three singers and six instru­men­tal­ists in con­junc­tion with Colleen Mur­phy for Tapestry’s Opera To Go series. It tells the story of a young East­ern Euro­pean woman (Oksana) who has found her­self in the safe­house of an Ital­ian priest (Alessan­dro). She has escaped from a pimp (Kon­stan­tin), who tricked her into pros­ti­tu­tion, and now finds that she is falling in love with Alessan­dro. He in turn, despite his priestly call­ing, finds him­self tempted by Oksana. Dur­ing this scene, they dance around the com­pli­ca­tions of their sit­u­a­tion, each one afraid to reveal him– or her– self to the other. In addi­tion, another prob­lem presents itself at the end of the scene.

The Secret (2005)
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Instru­men­ta­tion: sop, ten, pno
Dura­tion: 4’00
Libretto by Colleen Murphy, used by permission
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This is the first work I did with Colleen Mur­phy, while we were par­tic­i­pat­ing in Tapestry’s LibLab in August 2005. The story is about a man who has had an acci­dent, and his unfaith­ful wife/girlfriend who acci­den­tally reveals her infi­delity as she tries to com­fort him.

Scene from Euripides’ Medea (2004)
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Instru­men­ta­tion: sop, bari, flt, ob, clar, bsn, hrn, accord, vln, vc
Dura­tion: 12’00
Libretto adapted from the Greek tragedy (public domain)
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