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New Opera Composers Forum
February 28th, 7:00 PM
The Bleecker Street Opera will sponsor an Opera Composers Forum, a lecture/concert. The audience will have the opportunity to hear some new work, and composers discuss their impetus, inspiration, motivation and background. Our featured composers and librettists include...
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Chandler’s works, which include over 50 songs, choral, chamber and orchestral works, and three operas, have been performed throughout the United States and in Canada and Europe by numerous distinguished recitalists and ensembles. Mr. Carter is one of a few composers to have two operas, Strange Fruit in 2003 and No Easy Walk to Freedom in 2009, selected for New York City Opera’s VOX, showcasing new American opera. Strange Fruit was hailed by critics as a “stunner of an opening performance” for Long Leaf Opera’s inaugural summer festival in Chapel Hill in 2007. His Mercury Falling, a monodrama for tenor, solo dancer based on the death of French sculptor Jean-Louis Brian was presented by Long Leaf in 2009 to glowing reviews. Carter has received several awards, including two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and prizes for his Mass, Symphony for Winds and Canticle for tenor and orchestra.
Joan Ross Sorkin - Librettist
Joan is an opera librettist, musical theatre book-writer, lyricist, and playwright. Opera: Strange Fruit: Long Leaf Opera, Chapel Hill, NC (premiere), NewYork City Opera VOX 2003; The Reef (in development). Musicals: Isabelle and The Pretty-Ugly Spell: 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (Outstanding New Family-Oriented Musical, TalkinBroadway.com), Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Coral Gables, FL (2005 Winner, National Children’s Theatre Festival); In The Theatre: The York Theatre (Dev. Reading Series, 2008, 2009). Off-Broadway: (mis)UNDERSTANDING MAMMY: The Hattie McDaniel Story (Drama Desk nom. for Capathia Jenkins). Other NYC plays: The Survival Collection; Sweating It Out; The Confessional; Glimmer of Hope; L-O-V-E; Chasing Tigers (Finalist, Samuel French); Going Too Far; Therapy, New York-Style, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. Member: Dramatists Guild; BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.
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Hailed as “one of the most brilliant young composers of his generation” (New Music Connoisseur), Randall Eng has devoted his career to mining the territory between opera, music-theatre, and jazz. His opera Florida was given a critically-praised workshop production at Lyric Opera Cleveland in 2006, and was also presented at New York City Opera’s VOX festival and the Public Theater’s New Work Now! festival.
He is currently working on the opera Henry's Wife, which has had presentations at the Center for Contemporary Opera, American Opera Projects, and the Virginia Arts Festival. Other works include commissions from Albany Symphony Orchestra’s Dogs of Desire, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Mirror Visions Ensemble.
Randall has received grants and residencies from the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute. He is a graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge University, and New York University, where he now teaches.
Donna DiNovelli
DONNA di NOVELLI collaborates with artists around the world creating music-theater and opera ranging from the experimental to the traditional. As a librettist, she has been commissioned by the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the BBC, and Chanticleer, the all-male vocal ensemble. As a lyricist, she has written songs with Rachel Portman for the musical “Little House on the Prairie”, currently on an international tour. Opera/Music-Theater work: ‘Florida’, music by Randall Eng; ‘No God but Yearning’, music by David Rodwin; ‘Hildegard: A Measure of Joy’, music by Steven Stucky, Regis Campo and others. Plays have been presented at the Mark Taper Forum, Public Theater, and Duende Arts. Her songs have been heard at Joe’s Pub. She has won fellowships and honors from the Rockefeller Foundation [Bellagio, Italy]; Manhattan Theater Club; ASCAP; and the MacDowell Colony.
She teaches playwriting at the National Theater Institute located at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and Bookwriting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program.
She is a member of New York City Opera’s Librettists Project: “Words First? ”
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