FULL Creators in Concert: Laura Kaminsky New York 2018 Sarah Moulton Faux, Blythe Gaissert, Taylor Raven, Jorell Williams
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Creators in Concert: Laura Kaminsky
- Composer: Kaminsky Laura
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: OPERA America's National Opera Center in New York City
- Recorded: September 27, 2018
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Sarah Moulton Faux, Blythe Gaissert, Taylor Raven, Jorell Williams
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Mila Henry, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OPERA America
- Date Published: 2018
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
PROGRAM:
“Paper route”
“A Christmas story” and “Close” from As One
“George Washington Into Mona Lisa” from Some Light Emerges
Duet from Scene 2
Scene 7 from Today it Rains
Laura Kaminsky, “one of the top 35 female composers in classical music” (The Washington Post), frequently addresses issues including sustainability, war, and human rights in her work. “Full of fire as well as ice, (she writes) in an idiom that contrasts dissonance and violence with tonal beauty and meditative reflection. It is strong stuff.” (American Record Guide) With co-librettists Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed she has created the most widely-produced contemporary opera in the U.S., As One (2014), Some Light Emerges (Houston Grand Opera 2017), and the forthcoming Today It Rains (Opera Parallèle/American Opera Projects 2019). Upcoming: a Piano Quintet for Ursula Oppens and the Cassatt String Quartet; and with Reed, Postville, inspired by the unprecedented and devastating immigration raid there in 2008, for a consortium led by Santa Fe and San Francisco Operas. Head of composition at the Conservatory of Music/SUNY Purchase, she is composer-in-residence at American Opera Projects.