FULL Everything for Dawn Opera-Series New York 2022 Aaron Engebreth, Britt Hewitt, Sishel Claverie, Eliza Bonet

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Everything for Dawn  
• Composer: various, see below  
• Libretto: various, see below  
• Venue & Opera Company: New York, USA, Online, All Arts  
• Recorded: 2022
• Type: Movie
• Singers: Aaron Engebreth, Britt Hewitt, Sishel Claverie, Eliza Bonet, Maggie Finnegan, Joshua Conyers, Laura Strickling, Meroë Khalia Adeeb
• Conductor: David Bloom  
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Alison Moritz  
• Stage Designer: Jean Kim  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Stacey Boggs  

Information about the Recording

• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

In celebration of our 10^th Anniversary, Experiments in Opera will premiere Everything for Dawn, an epic new video opera series featuring ten 15-minute episodes, each written by a different librettist/composer combo.  A web streaming series of daring ambition, Everything for Dawn is the epitome of what Experiments in Opera stands for—fun, intimate storytelling, with a strong feeling of an artistic community at work.

ABOUT THE OPERA

Everything for Dawn is an original coming-of-age story spanning the 1990s. Dawn is a teenager dealing with the impact of her father’s suicide. Her personal tragedy becomes public when his paintings become celebrated as “outsider art.” With each episode written by a different librettist/composer pairing, the opera is an examination of the ways we seek solace in a broken world, community intersectionality, and the rationale for making art.

Everything for Dawn was designed from the beginning as a work that would accommodate multiple voices and aesthetic styles.  PART ONE of the opera (episodes 1 – 3 set in 1997) takes place in a suburban Detroit home, where a college-aged daughter (Dawn) and her mother discover a box of paintings by Mac, their father/husband, who has recently committed suicide.  They are conflicted about what to do with the paintings, but eventually give a local curator permission to show them in her gallery.  PART TWO of the opera (episodes 4 – 7 set in 1995) takes place a few years earlier in the mental health facility that the father had been in prior to his suicide.  In the facility, he discovers painting through an art therapy class and it helps him to deal with his depression and PTSD from the Vietnam War.  PART THREE of the opera (episodes 8 – 10 set in 2001) picks up after the end of Part One when the father is hailed by the art world as a star of outsider art.  Throughout the work, the main themes of family ties, mental illness and the art world are teased out and reconstituted as the opera culminates in an ensemble scene in a New York art gallery with most of the cast together to contemplate the legacy of a complicated man.

CREDITS

Everything for Dawn was created by the EiO Writers’ Room:

EPISODE 1: A RIOT GRRRL AT A RAVE
Libretto and Music by Jason Cady

EPISODE 2: CLEAN
Libretto by Jerome A. Parker
Music by Pauline Kim Harris

EPISODE 3: OPEN TO INTERPRETATION
Libretto by Lauren D’Errico
Music by Phil Kline

EPISODE 4: STICK WITH ME, BROTHER
Libretto by Adrienne Danrich and Jerome A. Parker
Music by Matthew Welch

EPISODE 5: THE BIRDHOUSE
Libretto by Jerry Lieblich
Music by Aaron Siegel

EPISODE 6: AT THE CRACK OF DAWN
Libretto by Krista Knight
Music by Melissa Dunphy

EPISODE 7: STANDARD PROCEDURE
Libretto by Jason Cady
Music by Paul Kerekes

EPISODE 8: INTO A WHITE BOX
Libretto by Jerry Lieblich
Music by Clarice Assad

EPISODE 9: PIECES OF MAC
Libretto by Lauren D’Errico and Adrienne Danrich
Music by Miguel Frasconi

EPISODE 10: FINAL VIEWING
Libretto by Krista Knight
Music by Kamala Sankaram
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