Dear friends,
The premiere of my new one-act opera, SEED, written with the superb librettist David Simpatico, will be on Thursday June 2, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space in NYC. It will be presented along with three other one-act operas by my colleagues in American Lyric Theater's Composer Librettist Development Program, of which I have been a resident artist for the past year.
SEED is a (surprisingly hopeful!) post-apocalyptic take on the Adam and Eve story:
The time: 100 hundred years after the end of the great nuclear Holy War.
The place: the Doomsday Botanical Seed Vault, underground repository of the world's organic vegetation and crop seed samples.
The story: The Elixir of God is meant to be opened only by the Chosen One, to save mankind and restore man's potency, ensuring propagation and repopulation of the planet.
But the Chosen One has not come, and the race is condemned to die out with the last man and woman, Adam and Evangeline – until they hear a voice crackling out of the wilderness...
SEED will be sung by three outstanding performers: mezzo Sarah Heltzel, tenor Glenn Seven Allen, and baritone Christopher Burchett.
Information about the entire evening is listed below. I hope you can come! Tickets are available through the Symphony Space website. Advance purchase is strongly recommended, as the hall is small and these events have sold out in previous years.
With warm regards,
Gerald
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OPERA IN EDEN RETURNS TO SYMPHONY SPACE
THURSDAY, JUNE 2nd, 2011 at 7:00 PM
LEONARD NIMOY THALIA – SYMPHONY SPACE – 2537 BROADWAY AT 95TH STREET
Join us as for a workshop concert of four incredibly entertaining contemporary fantasies on temptation at Opera in Eden, a concert of one-act operas developed by Resident Artists in American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program. The Garden of Eden has never been like this…!
Cycle: Composer Clint Borzoni, Librettist Tony Asaro
On the Origin: Composer Justine F. Chen, Librettist Rochelle Bright
Seed: Composer Gerald Cohen, Librettist David Simpatico
All Wounds Bleed: Composer Christopher Cerrone, Librettist Tony Asaro
Guest artists include: Chelsea Basler, Soprano; Caroline Worra, Soprano; Sarah Heltzel, Mezzo Soprano; Glenn Seven Allen, Tenor; Kyle Bielfield, Tenor; Christopher Burchett, Baritone; and Keith Chambers, Music Director. Opera in Eden will be hosted by composer/librettist Mark Adamo, ALT’s Director of Professional Development , and Lawrence Edelson, Founder and Producing Artistic Director.
Tickets: $15 Advance / $20 Day of Performance
212.864.5400