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University of New Mexico
Thursday, October 5, 2023 – 7:30pm
‘again (after ecclesiastes)’, ‘learn to fly’ from ‘these broken wings’ performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
Thursday, March 28, 2013
‘orpheus over and under’ performed by New Music New Haven
New Haven, CT
Monday, June 16, 2014
‘pierced’ performed by the Orchestra of the League of Composers
New York, NY
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
‘ark luggage’ performed by New York Festival of Song
New York, NY
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
‘the national anthems’ and ‘ark luggage’ performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Calder Quartet (New York premiere)
New York, NY
Jacob Druckman’s Horizons
‘anatomy theater’ New York premiere
From January 7-14, the Prototype Festival presents the New York premiere of David Lang’s anatomy theater, co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects, with set design by Mark Dion, direction by Bob McGrath, conductor Christopher Rountree and the International Contemporary Ensemble, plus Bill Morrison (video), Laurie Olinder (projection), Christopher Kuhl (lighting), and Alixandra Gage Englund (costumes).
Based on actual 18th-century texts, anatomy theater follows the astonishing progression of an English murderess: from confession to execution and, ultimately, public dissection before a paying audience of fascinated onlookers…
continue reading10 Years of ‘the little match girl passion’
On October 27, 2007 Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices premiered David Lang’s the little match girl passion in Carnegie Hall. The composition won Lang a Pulitzer Prize, the recording won a Grammy Award, and the score has since become one of the most performed new works in the world.
Staged by Glimmerglass Opera and Portland Opera, choreographed by the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet, with theatrical productions in Moscow, London, Edinburgh, and Sydney, it has been performed over 400 times across 35 countries…
continue readingNY Times: David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web
Secrets Found Online, Shared Softly
David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web
By WILLIAM ROBIN, August 2, 2013
Opera and technology have long had an uneasy relationship. The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle.
Historically, though, opera tended to avoid confronting the technological head-on…
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