FULL Digital Shorts LA Opera Los Angeles CA 2020-2021

• Work Title: Digital Shorts   
• Composer: Du Yun, Gabriela Lena Frank, Missy Mazzoli, Tamar-kali, David Lang, Tyshawn Sorey, Matthew Aucoin  
• Libretto: various    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: LA Opera Los Angeles, California  
• Recorded: 2020-2021
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Angel Blue, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Davóne Tines, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jacob Ingbar, Andrew Harris, Rebecca Jo Loeb, Amanda Lynn Bottoms, Hai-Ting Chinn, Joshua Blue, Anthony Parnther, Ashley Faatoalia, Cedric Berry, Joelle Harvey
• Conductor: various  
• Orchestra: various  
• Chorus: various  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: LA Opera  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

COMPOSER: GABRIELA LENA FRANK
Project: commissioned revision of The Five Moons of Lorca (Las cinco lunas de Lorca), text by Nilo Cruz
Filmmaker: Matthew Diamond
Choreographer / Solo Dancer: Irene Rodríguez
Musicians: countertenor Jacob Ingbar, pianist Nicholas Roehler, and members of the LA Opera Chorus
Premiere: December 11, 2020.

COMPOSER: MISSY MAZZOLI
Project: “The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings” (librettist: Royce Vavrek)
Director: James Darrah
Musical performers: bass Andrew Harris, conductor Christopher Rountree, the International Contemporary Ensemble
Premiere: January 15, 2021

COMPOSER: ELLEN REID
Project: Lumee’s Dream, based on an excerpt from the opera “p r i s m” (librettist: Roxie Perkins)
Mezzo-soprano soloist: Rebecca Jo Loeb
Viola soloist: Nadia Sirota
Co-director and director of photography: James Darrah
Co-director and editor: Adam Larsen
Premiere: January 29, 2021

COMPOSER: TYSHAWN SOREY
Project: Death, a setting of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Film director: Nadia Hallgren
Performers: mezzo-soprano Amanda Lynn Bottoms, pianist Howard Watkins
Premiere: February 19, 2021

COMPOSER: AYANNA WITTER-JOHNSON
Original Poetry: Henry Dumas
Project: Brown Sounds
Executive Producer / Conceptual Creator: Raehann Bryce-Davis
Filmmaker: Jérémy Adonis
Costume Designer / Stylist: Allan Virgo
Performers: mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, dancer Lateef Williams, pianist Jeanne-Minette Cilliers
Premiere: March 26, 2021

COMPOSER/LIBRETTIST: DAVID LANG
Project: let me come in
Producer/filmmaker: Bill Morrison
Performers: soprano Angel Blue; violist David Creswell; cellist Anja Wood; percussionist Miles Salerni; conductor Bryan Wagorn
Premiere: April 30, 2021

COMPOSER: MATTHEW AUCOIN
Project: Gallup, settings of poetry by Jake Skeets
Filmmaker: Blackhorse Lowe
Performers: baritone Davóne Tines, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, AMOC (American Modern Opera Company)
Premiere: May 28, 2021

COMPOSER/LIBRETTIST: DU YUN
Project: The Zolle Suite
Producer: Ron Diamond, Acme Filmworks
Animators: Steven Woloshen, Benjamin Swiczinsky, Kristian Pedersen, Oliver Harrison
Performers: narrator Du Yun, conductor Julian Wachner, mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn, International Contemporary Ensemble
Premiere: July 9, 2021

COMPOSER: CARLOS SIMON
Librettist: Sandra Seaton
Project: The First Bluebird in the Morning
Filmmaker/choreographer: Jamar Roberts
Dancer: Lloyd Knight
Musical performers: tenor Joshua Blue; cellist Anja Wood; pianist Howard Watkins
Premiere: September 24, 2021

COMPOSER: TAMAR-KALI
Project: We Hold These Truths
Filmmaker: dream hampton
Poetry by: Paul Laurence Dunbar (“We Wear the Mask”), Langston Hughes (“I, Too”), Claude McKay (“If We Must Die”), Tamar-Kali (“Requiem for Elijah McClain”)
Performers: conductor Anthony Parnther, tenor Ashley Faatoalia, baritone Cedric Berry, Selah Gospel Choir, spoken word artist Samuel Getachew and members of the LA Opera Orchestra.

COMPOSER: ANNA CLYNE
Project: Between the Rooms, setting of a collection of Emily Dickinson’s “envelope poems” for soprano and string quintet
Director, choreographer, editor: Kim Brandstrup
Dancers: Alina Cojocaru, Matthew Ball
Musical performers: soprano Joelle Harvey, The Knights (Eric Jacobsen, conductor; Colin Jacobsen, Kristi Helberg, violin; Mario Gotoh, viola; Caitlin Sullivan; Logan Coale, bass)
Premiere: TBA