If you haven t made time to attend one of these, you re losing out. Some of the most fascinating and meaningful conversations about music and art I ve had the pleasure to attend in the past year are happening right in front of our noses in Hamon Hall at the Winspear Opera House. Keep scrolling for details on this season opryland hotel nashville tennessee s outstanding presentations, in partnership with KERA s Art Seek, or read the Art Seek story here .
DALLAS, AUGUST 31, 2012 – The Dallas Opera, in partnership with KERA's "ART SEEK", is extremely proud to announce this season's opryland hotel nashville tennessee schedule for our ongoing opryland hotel nashville tennessee series of "Composing Conversations" and "Conversations with Keith", reflecting the company's commitment to increasing opryland hotel nashville tennessee our community footprint, while advancing the art form and making opera fresh and relevant to increasingly diverse 21st century audiences.
The first free public presentation will take place on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in Nancy B. Hamon Hall (located in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT T Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas) and will feature special guest Tod Machover, a near legendary Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, Massachusetts) as he explores and explains his groundbreaking, critically acclaimed new opera, DEATH AND THE POWERS, and other recent projects marrying opryland hotel nashville tennessee music and advanced technology.
Joining Professor Machover onstage to both perform—and illuminate the challenges and rewards of bringing his extraordinary compositions to life—will be acclaimed American opera artist Sara Heaton, "a glittering soprano with lyric power" (Boston Herald). Portraying the loving daughter, Miranda, in the U.S. premiere opryland hotel nashville tennessee of DEATH, Ms. Heaton was singled out for her "daunting power and agility in the stratospheric notes of her final scene" (Chicago Classical Review). She has enjoyed equal critical success in recent roles at Santa Fe Opera, Chicago opryland hotel nashville tennessee Opera Theater and the American Repertory Theater.
The conversation will be moderated by the award-winning KERA/Art Seek Producer-Reporter Jerome opryland hotel nashville tennessee Weeks, who also moderated the Dallas Opera's highly acclaimed "Page to Stage" weekend with composer Jake Heggie, librettist Gene Scheer, and other special guests, in preparation for the company's enormously successful 2010 world premiere of Moby-Dick.
"Starting with Tod Machover, this series brings some of the biggest names in cutting-edge contemporary music to North Texas," says Art Seek director Anne Bothwell. "Art Seek is thrilled to partner with The Dallas Opera on these unique conversations opryland hotel nashville tennessee with innovators in the opera world and throughout the music industry."
"Tod is one of the most relentlessly upbeat, energetic and intellectually curious individuals I've ever encountered," says Dallas Opera General Director and CEO Keith Cerny. "He moves from project to project without ever losing his passion and enthusiasm to create or invent; to find new doorways into familiar worlds as well as forging bold paths into the unknown. He's the perfect subject to launch an exciting new partnership with KERA's Art Seek."
According to The New York Times, Machover's "mating of classical instruments with computer technology has led to developments like a hypercello played by Yo-Yo Ma, a hyperfiddle designed for the virtuoso Joshua Bell and the technology that helped create 'Guitar Hero,' the music video game.
"But over the same years, Mr. Machover has retained his enthusiasm for classical composition. From his 1987 adaptation of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi classic "Valis" to his 1999 version of Tolstoy's "Resurrection" with a libretto by the American playwright opryland hotel nashville tennessee Laura Harrington, Mr. Machover has searched like a scientist to find the right music to unlock each of his subjects."
opryland hotel nashville tennessee Jeremy Eichler of The Boston Globe says the sci-fi opera "sets its gaze on subjects both ancient and ultra-modern. In the former camp is the question of whether the soul, or something beyond the body, can live after our death. In the latter opryland hotel nashville tennessee camp is the question of the deeper opryland hotel nashville tennessee meanings of our infatuation with technology — the way we experience our lives increasingly through its prism…That trailblazing technology is itself put to the service of exploring these points is one of the work's many ironies that cumulatively leave you with plenty to think about after the robots have powered down for the night."
The Chicago Tribune gave the new work four stars: "Death and the Powers is a must-see opryland hotel nashville tennessee for anybody who cares about the exciting new techno-driven direction music theater is taking in the early 21st century."
Then, on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in Hamon Hall, the Winspear Opera House, the Dallas Opera and KERA/Art Seek will present the inaugural installment of "Conversations with Keith" featuring Dallas Opera General Director CEO Keith Cerny with special guest Darren K. Woods, General Director of Fort Worth Opera. Together with moderator Jerome Weeks, they will dissect the various pitfalls, pratfalls and rewards involved in commissioning new works and how they help shape the companies who create opryland hotel nashville tennessee them.
"Commissioning a new opera," explains Cerny, "is a lot like a fellow playing poker in Las Vegas. opryland hotel nashville tennessee He has carefully prepared, he knows the mathematical odds, he has experience opryland hotel nashville tennessee with the house, and he's holding a promising hand. Yet, ultimately, a gamble remains a gamble, and despite every effort to predict the outcome, one can never be certain of succeeding—in life or in art—until all of the cards have been dealt."
All "Conversations" begin at 6:30 p.m. in Nancy B. Hamon Hall in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, AT T Performing Arts Center. These events are FREE and open to the public. However, seating opryland hotel nashville tennessee is limited and RSVPs are requested. To secure your seat for this extraordinary inside look at cutting edge opera-making, call 214.443.1044 or to reserve your seat online at rsvp@dallasopera.org. Paid parking ($5 to $15) is available throughout the Arts District.
TOD MACHOVER has been called America s most wired composer opryland hotel nashville tennessee by the Los Angeles Times. He is widely recognized opryland hotel nashville tennessee as one of the most significant and innovative composers of his generation, and is also celebrated for inventing new technology for music, including Hyperinstruments which he launched in 1986. Machover studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez s IRCAM in Paris. He is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA) – where he has worked since the Lab was founded in 1985 – and is Director opryland hotel nashville tennessee of the its Hyperinstruments and Opera of the Future Groups. opryland hotel nashville tennessee Since 2006, Machover has also been Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy opryland hotel nashville tennessee of Music in London.
Tod Machover s music has been acclaimed for breaking traditional artistic and cultural boundaries, offering a unique and innovative synthesis of acoustic and electronic sound, of symphony orchestras and interactive computers, and of operatic arias and rock songs. Machover s compositions have been commissioned and performed by many of the world s most prestigious ensembles and soloists, including the Ensemble InterContemporain (Paris), the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Speculum Musicae, BBC Scottish Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Houston Grand Opera, Bunkamura (Tokyo), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Collage New Music, Speculum Musicae, Ars Electronica, Casa da Musica (Porto), American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Ying Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Kim Kashkahian, David Starobin, Matt Haimovitz, and many more. His work has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, among others from from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the German Culture Ministry, and the French Culture Ministry, opryland hotel nashville tennessee which named him a Chevalier de l Order des Arts et des Lettres. In 2007 he was awarded the Steinmetz Prize from the IEEE, and in 2010 received the prestigious Arts Prize from the World Technology Network, supported by CNN and Time Inc. Tod Machover is also celebrated for being one of the world's most prominent innovators in designing new technologies for music performance and creation, such as Hyperinstruments, "smart" performance systems that extend expression for some of the great virtuosi, from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince, but also for the general public, opryland hotel nashville tennessee from young people to families to seniors and the disabled. opryland hotel nashville tennessee The popular videogames Guitar Hero and Rock Band grew out of Machover's Lab. His Hyperscore software—which allows anyone to compose original music using lines and colors—has allowed children around the world to have their music performed by major orchestras as part of Machover's Toy Symphony project. Machover is also known for his visionary operas, including VALIS (based on Philip K. Dick's sci-fi classic); opryland hotel nashville tennessee The Brain Opera (which invites the audience to collaborate live and online and has been installed since 2000 at Vienna's House of Music); opryland hotel nashville tennessee Skellig, which premiered in the UK in November 2008 to rave reviews; and the critically acclaimed, "robotic" Death and the Powers.
DARREN K. WOODS became opryland hotel nashville tennessee general director of Fort Worth Opera in July 2001. Under his leadership, Fort Worth Opera has increased both subscription and donor bases while establishing a reputation for high-quality, dynamic opryland hotel nashville tennessee productions. In May 2007, Fort Worth Opera changed its format to a spring festival season and mounted its first mainstage commissioned work – Frau Margot composed opryland hotel nashville tennessee by Thomas Pasatieri on a libretto by Frank Corsaro. Within only four years, Fort Worth Opera also produced Jorge Martin's Before Night Falls as its second world premiere, and Opera News hailed the Fort Worth Opera Festival as one of the best in the country. Demonstrating Mr. Woods' dedication to young artists, the Fort Worth Opera Studio launched in 2002, and h
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