FULL Atlas (Meredith Monk) Senes Chapel Hill NC 2021 UNC Opera
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Atlas
- Composer: Monk Meredith
- Libretto: Meredith Monk, Nijah Poteat Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Moeser Auditorium Department of Music, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Recorded: June 30, 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Nijah Poteat, Laney Dowell, Lena Kantz, Julia Holoman, Carson Gartner, Abigale Hawkins, Ally Dunavant, Nuria Shin, Mackenzie Smith, Kennedy Miller, Lily Vance
- Conductor: Yumi Kita
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Marc Callahan
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Aimee Comancini
Information about the Recording
- Published by: UNC Department of Music
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Between 2018 and 2019, 7 children died in US detention:
Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle, 10
Jakelin Caal Maquín, 7
Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8
Juan de León Gutiérrez, 16
Wilmer Josué Ramírez Vásquez, 2½
Carlos Hernandez Vásquez, 16
Mariee Juárez, 20 months
We have seen images of the border and of the detention facilities holding migrant children. We have heard their testimony and witnessed their pain. Now, it is time that we act.
UNC Opera seeks to tell the story of one family’s journey from El Salvador to the U.S.-Mexico border with our production of Meredith Monk’s ATLAS. We have reconfigured the musical score and devised our own narrative to tell a story of a boy and his dog as they make the journey from El Salvador to the US-Mexico border. This video production is produced in collaboration with Susan Harbage Page and that the puppets were created by Tarish Pipkins (AKA Jeghetto).