The Comet / Poppea
ven. 01 nov.
|Philadelphia
Chef assistant et remplaçant pour la production The Comet / Poppea par le Curtis Opera Theatre.
Heure et lieu
01 nov. 2024, 19 h 00 – 21 h 30
Philadelphia, 22 S 23rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, États-Unis
À propos de l'événement
Curtis Opera Theatre launches the East Coast premiere of The Comet / Poppea, the MacArthur Award-winning composer George Lewis’ highly anticipated operatic setting of W.E.B. Du Bois’s proto-Afrofuturist science fiction short story, The Comet (1920), juxtaposed with Claudio Monteverdi’s hot-blooded political thriller, L’incoronazione di Poppea (1643). Presented on a turntable divided in two halves, these worlds unfold simultaneously, with the stage’s rotation creating a visual and sonic spiral for audiences—inviting associations, dissociations, collisions, and confluences. Directed and conceived by fellow MacArthur-winner Yuval Sharon, this innovative co-production features a stellar cast of Curtis singers led by conductor Marc Lowenstein.
The Comet GEORGE LEWIS, music DOUGLAS KEARNEY, libretto Adapted from the W.E.B. Dubois short story The Comet
L’incoronazione di Poppea CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI, music FRANCESCO BUSENELLO, libretto
The Comet will be performed in English with English supertitles. L’incoronazione di Poppea will be performed in Italian with English supertitles.