Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding
Iphigenia
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A New Opera
West Coast Premiere
A Cal Performances Co-commission
Members of the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Wayne Shorter, composer
esperanza spalding, librettist and performer
Frank Gehry, set designer
Liliana Blain-Cruz, director
Clark Rundell, conductor
Montana Levi-Banco, costume designer
Jen Schriever, lighting designer
Mark Grey, sound designer
A living legend of jazz collaborates with one of the brightest lights of the younger generation in the West Coast premiere of a Cal Performances co-commission that reimagines what opera can be, and asks us to reexamine the stories we have inherited and the choices we make as a society.
Wayne Shorter, 11-time Grammy-winning composer and saxophonist, has composed the music, and Esperanza Spalding, four-time Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and vocalist, is the librettist and plays the title role in Iphigenia, a radical new take on Euripides' ancient Greek play Iphigenia in Aulis. Classical and jazz forms collide in an expansive score that features Shorter's groundbreaking method of symphonic improvisation, lifting up Spalding's artfully poetic and fractured libretto.
The fully staged work is performed by a 28-piece chamber ensemble; three members of the venerated Wayne Shorter Quartet; a cast of nine vocalists; and a chorus of 10 singers; with set design by icon Frank Gehry and directed by Liliana Blain-Cruz. As Spalding explains, "Our Iphigenia has at its core a sense of autonomy--in this adventure of life, you have freedom of choice. The overarching sentiment is one of humanistic love, of wanting to re-awaken the dreams of youth free of the pressures of adulthood."
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Iphigenia
THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT. Add yourself to a notification list to be alerted if tickets become available.
A New Opera
West Coast Premiere
A Cal Performances Co-commission
Members of the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Wayne Shorter, composer
esperanza spalding, librettist and performer
Frank Gehry, set designer
Liliana Blain-Cruz, director
Clark Rundell, conductor
Montana Levi-Banco, costume designer
Jen Schriever, lighting designer
Mark Grey, sound designer
A living legend of jazz collaborates with one of the brightest lights of the younger generation in the West Coast premiere of a Cal Performances co-commission that reimagines what opera can be, and asks us to reexamine the stories we have inherited and the choices we make as a society.
Wayne Shorter, 11-time Grammy-winning composer and saxophonist, has composed the music, and Esperanza Spalding, four-time Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and vocalist, is the librettist and plays the title role in Iphigenia, a radical new take on Euripides' ancient Greek play Iphigenia in Aulis. Classical and jazz forms collide in an expansive score that features Shorter's groundbreaking method of symphonic improvisation, lifting up Spalding's artfully poetic and fractured libretto.
The fully staged work is performed by a 28-piece chamber ensemble; three members of the venerated Wayne Shorter Quartet; a cast of nine vocalists; and a chorus of 10 singers; with set design by icon Frank Gehry and directed by Liliana Blain-Cruz. As Spalding explains, "Our Iphigenia has at its core a sense of autonomy--in this adventure of life, you have freedom of choice. The overarching sentiment is one of humanistic love, of wanting to re-awaken the dreams of youth free of the pressures of adulthood."
Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding
Iphigenia
THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT. Add yourself to a notification list to be alerted if tickets become available.
A New Opera
West Coast Premiere
A Cal Performances Co-commission
Members of the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Wayne Shorter, composer
esperanza spalding, librettist and performer
Frank Gehry, set designer
Liliana Blain-Cruz, director
Clark Rundell, conductor
Montana Levi-Banco, costume designer
Jen Schriever, lighting designer
Mark Grey, sound designer
A living legend of jazz collaborates with one of the brightest lights of the younger generation in the West Coast premiere of a Cal Performances co-commission that reimagines what opera can be, and asks us to reexamine the stories we have inherited and the choices we make as a society.
Wayne Shorter, 11-time Grammy-winning composer and saxophonist, has composed the music, and Esperanza Spalding, four-time Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and vocalist, is the librettist and plays the title role in Iphigenia, a radical new take on Euripides' ancient Greek play Iphigenia in Aulis. Classical and jazz forms collide in an expansive score that features Shorter's groundbreaking method of symphonic improvisation, lifting up Spalding's artfully poetic and fractured libretto.
The fully staged work is performed by a 28-piece chamber ensemble; three members of the venerated Wayne Shorter Quartet; a cast of nine vocalists; and a chorus of 10 singers; with set design by icon Frank Gehry and directed by Liliana Blain-Cruz. As Spalding explains, "Our Iphigenia has at its core a sense of autonomy--in this adventure of life, you have freedom of choice. The overarching sentiment is one of humanistic love, of wanting to re-awaken the dreams of youth free of the pressures of adulthood."
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Iphigenia
THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT. Add yourself to a notification list to be alerted if tickets become available.
A New Opera
West Coast Premiere
A Cal Performances Co-commission
Members of the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Wayne Shorter, composer
esperanza spalding, librettist and performer
Frank Gehry, set designer
Liliana Blain-Cruz, director
Clark Rundell, conductor
Montana Levi-Banco, costume designer
Jen Schriever, lighting designer
Mark Grey, sound designer
A living legend of jazz collaborates with one of the brightest lights of the younger generation in the West Coast premiere of a Cal Performances co-commission that reimagines what opera can be, and asks us to reexamine the stories we have inherited and the choices we make as a society.
Wayne Shorter, 11-time Grammy-winning composer and saxophonist, has composed the music, and Esperanza Spalding, four-time Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and vocalist, is the librettist and plays the title role in Iphigenia, a radical new take on Euripides' ancient Greek play Iphigenia in Aulis. Classical and jazz forms collide in an expansive score that features Shorter's groundbreaking method of symphonic improvisation, lifting up Spalding's artfully poetic and fractured libretto.
The fully staged work is performed by a 28-piece chamber ensemble; three members of the venerated Wayne Shorter Quartet; a cast of nine vocalists; and a chorus of 10 singers; with set design by icon Frank Gehry and directed by Liliana Blain-Cruz. As Spalding explains, "Our Iphigenia has at its core a sense of autonomy--in this adventure of life, you have freedom of choice. The overarching sentiment is one of humanistic love, of wanting to re-awaken the dreams of youth free of the pressures of adulthood."
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