AOP and Opera on Tap return to Galapagos Art Space for the fourth in this ongoing series that brings the best of contemporary opera to one of Brooklyn's most innovative art venues.

Featuring:

Absynth

Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer explores the separation and unification of (wo)man and machine in a monodrama featuring newly commissioned works for electronics and voice. Including music by Nico Muhly, Kevin McFarland, Florent Ghys, Caleb Burhans and AOP Composers & the Voice composers Stephen Andrew Taylor and Andrew Staniland. Featuring Mateo Moreno, Craig Kelton Peterson, and Erin Posanti. Costume Design by Anna Kiraly. Lighting Design and Sound Mix by Ian W. Hill. Additional design by Art Wallace and Christiaan Koop. Directed by Matt Gray.
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Dreams of Pure Spirit:  Songs of Tom Cipullo

Soprano Tory Browers, mezzo Rebecca Jo Loeb, and baritone Michael Anthony McGee performing Tom Cipullo's most lyrical and accessible songs on poems of Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, and Lisel Mueller. 

Margot Alone in the Light

Based on a Ray Bradbury story, this new one-act opera is set in a classroom of schoolchildren on the planet Venus, where it rains constantly with the exception of one hour every seven years.  None of the schoolchildren remember the sun, except for ‘Margot,’ who moved to Venus four years ago from Ohio. 

Music by 2007-08 C&V composer Clint Borzoni
libretto by Emily Conbere
based on Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day"
conducted by Jennifer Peterson
directed by Scott C. Embler
featuring Martha Guth as Margot, Alteouise deVaughn, Andrew Drost, Lisa Williamson, Kimberly Sogioka, Dennis Blackwell
Produced by Opera on Tap and operamission

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