Event Description:
Prototype Festival
New Vision for Opera NYC presents
MILA, GREAT SORCERER
January 13 at 1:00 pm
Folk hero, singer, and
spiritual teacher, Milarepa has been venerated for one thousand years. But as a
child, directed by his mother, he wields black magic against the aunt and uncle
that stole his inheritance, and destroys his entire village. His remorse sends
him on a life journey from mass murder to enlightenment. Set to lush
orchestration melding Eastern and Western sounds, his transformation and
redemption into the most revered teacher of Tibetan Buddhism offer hope and
spiritual wayfinding to all who regret acts of consequence and seek higher
ground.
Composed by Andrea
Clearfield
Libretto by Jean-Claude van Itallie & Lois Walden
Directed by Kevin Newbury
Conducted by Manoj Kamps
Featuring the Knights
Commissioned by Gene Kaufman
and Terry Eder Kaufman
“Ms. Clearfield’s consonant
and melodic style, and the ease with which she moves between graceful tracery
and lively, rhythmically vital writing, suits these instruments and players
perfectly…”
— Alann Kozinn, The New York Times
“Clearfield is a natural musical
dramatist.”
— Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News Magazine
“The audience is drawn to
participate with the actors in a kind of eucharist."
— Walter Kerr, The New York Times
Referred to as “one of the great things about being in New York City in January” by Opera News, the 7th annual festival of PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now returns January 5-13, 2019. The pioneering festival features eleven presentations that, characteristically, “shift the whole paradigm of what opera is and can be” (New York Observer).
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