The last atelier of the season

A Double Bill of “electronic” operas:

Archimedes by James Dashow

Rope and Chasm by Matthew Greenbaum

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Music by Ben Moore, Libretto by Nahmas Sandrow

Set in New York City in 1949, the opera follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived in a hayloft, taken care of by his non-Jewish, Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has an affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is simply a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to be killed in the Holocaust, comes to New York. Featuring an all-star cast with stage

Direction by Kira Simring and Music direction by Michael Pilafian

Tickets

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$20 – General Admission

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part of the CCO Atelier Series

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Discord-Accord

a cabaret/music-theater

With music by Eric Salzman, William Schimmel and Osvaldo Pugliese

Featuring Laila Salins, mezzo and William Schimmel, accordion

CCO steps out of its box as it presents an engaging evening of new music theater. Distinguished accordionist William Schimmel opens with an amazing version of the “Poet & Peasant” Overture, a set of drinking songs and tangos from Latvia (introduced and performed by Laila Salins; some of the texts are by her father who is a leading contemporary Latvian poet); “Accord” a mini-theater solo for Schimmel in which he wanders through the audience, serenading, flirting, singing, laughing, breaking down and crying; music from the Brecht “Good Person of Szechuan”, also organized as a mini-theater piece; and, finally, a set of those biting, hard-hitting Osvaldo Pugliese tangos, instrumental and vocal, with translations and a running commentary.

The program also features three of New York’s top string players: Machiko Ozawa and Marc Levine, violins, and Leo Grinhauz, cello.

Advance tickets $20

THE SECRET AGENT

by Michael Dellaira

Atelier: New Work-in-Progress

Michael Dellaira Composer

J.D. McClatchy Librettist

Based on Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent, this new operatic work-in-progress is set in fin-de-siècle London, and hinges on the attempt of a group of anarchists to blow up the Greenwich Observatory–terrorism in its early days!

Tickets $20

includes a  post-performance wine reception