[CANCELED] Premiere of The Furies: A Laptopera
Date:
Sun, 03/15/2020 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Date:
Mon, 03/16/2020 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert Join the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) for the first-ever "laptopera," composed by CCRMA visiting artist Dr. Anne Hege. This production features vocal soloists accompanied by computer music.
The Furies: A Laptopera is a retelling of the Greek tragedy Electra. Blending a number of versions of the Electra story including works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Jean Paul Sartre, this retelling explores central questions regarding how communities escape from cycles of violence, the role of guilt and shame in community identity, personal responsibility, how justice interfaces with cycles of violence, and redemption. The artistic medium of the laptop orchestra both serves to recast the traditional instrumental role in a new kind of operatic medium (the “laptopera”) that reimagines the potential of instrument building to support dramatic elements and character relationships—while simultaneously positing critical questions about technology in our lives presently, both in its promise to help us flourish and in its perils to perpetuate and amplify the existing cycles of violence in our world today.
Creator • Composer • Co-producer — Anne Hege
Co-producer • Visuals • SLOrk Director — Ge Wang
Instrument Design Lead — Camille Noufi
Instrument Design Contributors — Elena Georgieva, Anne Hege,
Matt Wright, Curtis Ullerich
Choreographer • Stage Director — Catie Cuan
Conductor — Monica Covitt
Soloists
Electra — Shauna Fallihee
Orestia — Anne Hege
Clytemnestra — Alice Del Simone
Aegisthus & Apollo — Sidney Chen
The Furies • SLOrk Ensemble
Camille Noufi | Elena Georgieva | Andrea Baldioceda | Raul Altosaar | Matt Wright | Nette Worthey | Curtis Ullerich
Learn more: laptopera.org
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This event is FREE and OPEN to ALL; RSVP required
http://bit.ly/laptopera
Please note space is VERY limited. We ask that you RSVP when your attendance is confirmed. See you at the show!
FREE
Open to the Public