Directed by Peter Flynn (Henry & Mudge) and starring a renowned cast of singers including Katrina Thurman (Opéra National de Lyon, Oper Bonn), Thomas Meglioranza (Opera Boston), Steven Ebel (New York City Opera), and Wilbur Pauley (The Met, NYCO, Lyric Opera of Chicago), Romulus is based on the Alexandre Dumas, perè play about two bachelor scientists in 19th century Tyrolean Austria whose lives are comically upended when a newborn baby appears mysteriously in their house. The hour-long, fully-staged opera will be held at the Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Guggenheim Museum (1071 Fifth Ave., NYC) and will feature the 11-member Washington Square Ensemble in the pit under the baton of Mr. Karchin.
A composer of music of "fearless eloquence" (Andrew Porter, The New Yorker), Louis Karchin has received acclaim for a compositional portfolio of over 50 works. His two recent extended vocal-instrumental song cycles for baritone, Orpheus, and American Visions, garnered critical praise, and his cycle for soprano, Songs of Distance and Light, was hailed at its premiere by The San Francisco Chronicle as "a work of coruscating beauty... one of the signal new music events of the season." Mr. Karchin is Professor of Music in NYU's Faculty of Arts and Science, teaching an advanced graduate program in composition.
Mr. Karchin is also Artistic Director of the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society. ROMULUS will perform at 7:30pm on May 20-21, 2007 at the Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Guggenheim Museum (1071 Fifth Ave., NYC). -- www.operaprojects.org
Posted January 29th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
