FULL HERE BE SIRENS (Kate Soper) New York 2024 India Rowland, Brooke Jones, Devony Smith
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Here be Sirens
- Composer: Soper Kate
- Libretto: Kate Soper Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Auditorium at Alvin Johnson, J.M. Kaplan Hall, Mannes Opera, New York City, College of Performing Arts at The New Schoool
- Recorded: February 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: India Rowland, Brooke Jones, Devony Smith
- Conductor: Cris Frisco
- Orchestra:
- Choreographer: Sunny Min-Sook Hitt
- Stage Director: Jen Pitt
- Stage Designer: Colleen Murray, Zoë Allen
- Costume Designer: Bailey Costa, Kent Sprague
Information about the Recording
- Published by: College of Performing Arts at The New School
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Written in 2014, HERE BE SIRENS is Kate Soper’s first piece for the stage and is scored for three singers and a piano (without a conductor), much like her recent and widely acclaimed opera, The Hunt.
Written in 2014, HERE BE SIRENS is Kate Soper’s first piece for the stage and is scored for three singers and a piano (without a conductor), much like her recent and widely acclaimed opera, The Hunt. HERE BE SIRENS presents the daily life of three sirens, who kill time on their island as they await an endless procession of doomed sailors. Peitho revels in the luxurious sensuality of their rite; Phaino stonily enacts the ritual with no inner feeling; and Polyxo longs for escape into the world of the real, delving into centuries of scholarship and research on her species in an attempt to untwist their circumstances. As the opera goes on, the sirens re-enact the abduction of Persephone, encounter (and battle) their favored sisters the Muses, and leave no rock unturned to plumb the depths of their own origins, in this work of “audacious, genre-bending music theatre” (Wall Street Journal).