VOX 2008 New York City Opera

May 10 & 11, 2008

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Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 2:00pm
Our Giraffe
Music by Sorrel Hays
Libretto by Charles Flowers

This imaginative historical fable uses the arrival of the first giraffe in Paris to show the clash of cultural expectations from different societies. Sorrel Hays’ eclectic, hybrid musical writing has earned her eight commissions from the Westdeutscher Rundfunk’s Experimental Drama department, with her subjects ranging from the microtonal fluctuations of tone generators to a post-modern opera on the life of bees.


Sunday, May 11th @ 3:00p
Jeanne
Music and libretto by Justine F. Chen

A fractured retelling of Joan of Arc’s story by composer and violinist Justine F. Chen, whose computer-enhanced chamber opera The Maiden Tower was featured in VOX 2006. New York-based Chen received a doctorate in composition from Juilliard and is Composer-in-Residence at North Carolina’s Long Leaf Opera.

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