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21/08/2020

Happy Release Day! Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's 'Proving Up' is out today on PENTATONE. From the New Yorker: "An excellent new recording reveals the lacerating power of Mazzoli’s writing, with Christopher Rountree conducting the International Contemporary Ensemble and the cast of Opera Omaha’s 2018 production of the piece. The score, which includes harmonicas and acoustic guitars, sidesteps genre shtick to create modern musical landscapes that feel eerily unwelcoming, bright, and dry, but the wonderfully specific vocal writing embraces a certain classicism in its differentiation of the characters. In an American frontier littered with broken promises, Mazzoli and the librettist Royce Vavrek ask us to see those who failed and were forgotten."

PROVING UP Music by Missy Mazzoli Libretto by Royce Vavrek an opera based on the short story by Karen Russell Album out August 21st, 2020 On Pentatone Availa...

10/03/2020

For its SoundSights series, the Oregon Symphony collaborates with animation-installation pioneer Rose Bond for Berio's 1969 counterculture and revolutionary "Sinfonia" (March) and with puppet-stage designer Michael Curry (The Lion King, Olympics, Frozen, Cirque du Soleil) to bring Mayan creatures to life for Mexican composer Reveultas' 1938 film score, "La noche de los Mayas" (April).

In March and April 2020, the Oregon Symphony presents two visually stunning concerts as part of its groundbreaking  SoundSights  series, launched in 2016-17, incorporating a rich tapestry of artistic elements. For the first, Portland’s award-winning media artist, 

26/02/2020

We are delighted to welcome the Oregon Symphony to our roster! Just about the perfect model of a 21st century orchestra, the Oregon Symphony (Gabriel Kahane, Creative Chair), celebrates Music Director Carlos Kalmar's final season in 20-21 with bangin' commissions, lively contemporary works from around the world, integrated education programs, and creative community outreach projects.

Calliope PR is pleased to welcome to our roster the Oregon Symphony! In his essay “ Notable Performances of 2019 and of the Decade ,” New Yorker music critic Alex Ross called out the Oregon Symphony’s 2011 Spring for Music performance at Carnegie Hall , which featured the program “Music for

14/11/2019

Undaunted: Missy Mazzoli premieres her first composition for ballet, holds residencies with both Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and has two operas in the hopper.

Missy Mazzoli's  Orpheus Alive , her first work composed explicitly for dance, runs November 15-21, 2019, in Toronto. Choreographed by National Ballet of Canada Choreographic Associate  Robert Binet , the work flips the script of the classic tale by casting Orpheus as a woman a

10/07/2019

News!

o·pe·ra :: /ˈäp(ə)rə/ :: a work, a labor {Italian, Latin} — from operari, opus, *op-, “to work, produce in abundance.” With its eighth innovative season in 2020, PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now continues its rigorous exploration of the work , producing and presenting an a

11/06/2019

Brooklyn Youth Chorus performs “Oblivion” with The National and Jen Wasner (of Wye Oak) on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Monday, June 10, 2019. New Yorkers can catch them live tomorrow, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, as part of BRIC Arts Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell, performing on seven tracks from the The National’s new album, I Am Easy to Find.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus performs “Oblivion” with The National and Jen Wasner (of Wye Oak) on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon , Monday, June 10, 2019 . New Yorkers can catch them live tomorrow , Wednesday, June 12, 2019 , as part of BRIC Arts Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshe

26/04/2019

"Now when reading an opera score, I always start with the text, and I view the score as if it were a novel...what are the connections between the emotions of a character? Are those emotions given to the orchestra? What role do specific instruments play in a given scene, or are they connected to just one character?....I try to inhabit the characters in an opera and understand their psychology, which then informs my musical choices."

Catch her next weekend in Philly!

Stephanie Boyd asked 5 questions to conductor Daniela Candillari about her early influences, her love of languages, and delving into contemporary operas.

16/04/2019

Calliope PR is super duper thrilled and happy for Ellen Reid, who won the Pulitzer Prize yesterday for her brilliant and colorful opera, 'p r i s m' (commissioned by Beth Morrison, developed with and directed by James Darrah, with two performances conducted by Daniela Candillari, and East Coast premiere on the PROTOTYPE Festival). Check out video from the opera along with video from her latest piece, a musical installation called PLAYGROUND/RUN, which just premiered on the Opera Omaha ONE Festival.

In September I posted about a fresh upcoming opera by the composer  Ellen Reid , called  p r i s m , for which  Reid was awarded a Pulitzer Prize yesterday . Calliope PR is thrilled for Ellen and honored to have worked on this amazing project, as well as with ma

04/01/2019

Please join me in welcoming Calliope's first Publicity Assistant, Jessica Rupert.

Jess is a world traveler and festival expert, coming to us from the illustrious Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She came to us to wrangle press attendance for the PROTOTYPE Festival but she's having such a great time she's decided to stick around.

26/12/2018

Congrats to Dianne Berkun Menaker for creating and telling her story!

Dianne Berkun Menaker of Brooklyn Youth Chorus decided to mix up an “industry” that’s been around since the Middle Ages -- literally.