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FULL A House in Bali (Ziporyn) New York 2010
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: A House in Bali
- Composer: Ziporyn Evan
- Libretto: based on 'A House in Bali' by Colin McPhee Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Cutler Majestic Theatre, Emerson College, New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NEXT WAVE Festival 2010
- Recorded: October 2010
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The sounds of a 16-member Balinese gamelan intertwine with western opera and Balinese singers, traditional dance, live video feeds, and the pulsating post-minimalism of the Bang on a Can All-Stars in A House in Bali, an new opera by Evan Ziporyn, directed by Jay Scheib.
Based on the memoirs of trailblazing composer Colin McPhee, the work re-imagines first contact between cultures in 1930s Bali through the prism of the cross-cultural present. This live-cinema performance follows the course of McPhee’s sojourn to Bali, his encounters with anthropologist Margaret Mead and painter Walter Spies, and their ultimately tragic relationship with dancer I Sampih, a Balinese youth whom McPhee mentors after the boy saves his life. Images from 1930s photographs – many by Mead herself – and music of the period – from Bali and from McPhee’s own hand – merge with live re-creations and (dis)simulations in this bold study of artifice, connection, and alienation, set at the crossroads of the cultural and the personal.
Quoted from https://contemporaryperformance.com/