FULL House of the Wayward Girls – a little opera (Amy Denio) Seattle 2022
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: House of the Wayward Girls
- Composer: Denio Amy
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, Washington
- Recorded: May 21, 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: unknown
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Choreographer: Robyn Bjornson
- Stage Director: Joan Laage, Kogut Butoh
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: DAIPANbutoh Collective
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Amy Denio is an award-winning composer, singer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, record producer and recording engineer. Denio has completed dozens of commissions and grants to compose for modern dance, film and theater, multi-media performances, and television. To date, she has created over 600 works and has produced recordings in collaboration with artists all over the world. She operates Spoot Music, her record label, publishing company and recording studio.
“While attending a performance at the Chapel, which we do frequently, my husband exclaimed, “the house of the pregnant girls,” and I suddenly decided to create a piece inspired by the center’s history and occupants. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd order started in France, spread to the US and in 1890, a train brought five nuns through the forest and mountains to Seattle. The center provided shelter, education, and guidance to young girls so they could become caring, responsible, and moral young women. An emphasis on morality was most likely strongly linked to sexuality. Today’s increasing restrictions on sex education coupled with the denial of fluid gender identity are also burdened by what might be called the “moral imperative.” There is great political pressure on women concerning their rights as sexual beings, potential mothers, etc., with the self-determination of women’s bodies being eroded.”
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