FULL Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story (Edwards & Ralls) Portland OR 2023 Marion Newman, Richard Zeller, Dan Gibbs

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea's Story  
• Composer: Hovia Edwards, Justin Ralls  
• Libretto: Rose Ann Abrahamson    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Hampton Opera Center's Hinckley Theater, Portland, Oregon  
• Recorded: May 13-14, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Marion Newman, Richard Zeller, Dan Gibbs
• Conductor: Justin Ralls  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Katherine Goforth  
• Stage Designer: Alisyn Smith, Justin Ralls, Katherine Goforth, Rose Ann Abrahamson, Lisa Lipton, Randy Ralls  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Carl Faber  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Opera Theater Oregon  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  A new opera based on oral histories of Sacajawea’s Agai-Dika familial descendants
  as well as the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Rose Ann Abrahamson is the great-great-grandniece of Sacajawea through Sacajawea’s brother, Cameahwait.

  Sung in Aqai-Dika/Lemhi-Shoshone, Québécois French, English, and also including Native American Sign Language (with English subtitles).

  PROGRAM:

  MY MOTHER’S LANGUAGE, (pre-recorded voice and soundscape)
  Rose Ann Abrahamson and Justin Ralls

  ROUND DANCE, Native American Flute and pre-recorded soundscape
  Hovia Edwards

  NU NAH-HUP: SACAJAWEA’S STORY, PRELUDE
  Music by Hovia Edwards and Justin Ralls
  Native American flute and Orchestra

  NU NAH-HUP: SACAJAWEA’S STORY, “STRIKEING” SCENE
  Libretto by Rose Ann Abrahamson
  Music by Hovia Edwards and Justin Ralls

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