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Date(s) - 11/03/2022
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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The Stone
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Composer, vocalist, and producer Lisa Bielawa returns to The Stone at The New School from NOV 2-5, 2022 for her third curated residency, a performance initiative founded by John Zorn.
The November 3 concert features Ariadne Greif – voice, Peter Stewart – voice, Lisa Bielawa – voice, and Andrea Christie – piano. The first public showing of arias and scenes from Bielawa’s new opera-in-progress, La Ballonniste, inspired by the life of Mme Élisabeth Thible — the first woman to ascend in a hot air balloon in 1784 in Lyon, France. Librettist Claire Solomon and dramaturg Cori Ellison will be on hand to give context and lead some discussion.
Lisa Bielawa is a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. Her music has been described as “ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart,” by The New York Times. She is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a 2020 Discovery Grant from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers. She was named a William Randolph Hearst Visiting Artist Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society for 2018 and was Artist-in-Residence at Kaufman Music Center in New York for the 2020-2021 season. In 1997 Bielawa co-founded the MATA Festival. In 2022, she was selected for a residency with the Louisville Orchestra’s Creators Corps. For this new endeavor Bielawa temporarily relocated to Louisville to make new orchestral and community-based work as an active, engaged member of the community.
Presented by The Stone NYC
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