The Dinner Party Operas
The Dinner Party Operas, a showcase of eleven original mini-operas inspired by Judy Chicago's iconic feminist installation The Dinner Party, a multi-media work housed in the Brooklyn Museum, was presented this past May in New York City by the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (GMTWP), the Brooklyn Museum, the NYU Tisch Department of Design for Stage & Film and American Opera Projects (AOP). The pieces were performed in two parts with the first set being performed at NYU Tisch's GMTWP Black Box Theatre, located in Manhattan at 715 Broadway, between Washington and Waverly places, on the second floor. The second set was performed at the Brooklyn Museum, in close proximity to the Chicago installation in the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Richard Sasanow from broadwayworld.com reviewed the pieces and described the result of the event as having "some remarkable insights and burgeoning talent aplenty on display." To read the entire review CLICK HERE.
The Dinner Party Operas includes the following works by the following GMTWP current students and alums:
MASTER, with music by Jacinth Greywoode (Cycle 27) and libretto by Deepali Gupta (Cycle 25)
PETRONILLA, with music by Kent Jeong-Eun Kim (Cycle 26) and libretto by Zack Childers (Cycle 27)
A DROP IN THE OCEAN, with music by Bryan Blaskie (Cycle 27) and libretto by Christine Claudel Filimonova (Cycle 26)
ÁR N-ATHAIR, with music by Benedict Braxton-Smith (Cycle 27) and libretto by Nick Stephens
AN UNBROKEN LINE, with music by Spencer Robelen (Cycle 26) and libretto by Seth Christenfeld (Cycle 23)
AVERY AND AINSLEY, with music by Jonathan Fadner (Cycle 24) and libretto by Scott R. Ritter (Cycle 17)
WAITING FOR THE RAIN, with music by Kevin Cummines (Cycle 16) and libretto by Clara Luthas (Cycle 24)
PRESIDENT JOAN (OR THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF SANDWICHES), with music by Boram Han (Cycle 25) and libretto by Cal Silberstein (Cycle 27)
THEODORA, with music by Minhui Lee (Cycle 24) and libretto by Benji Goldsmith (Cycle 26)
JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES, with music by Mehmet Salih Yildirim (Cycle 24) and libertto by Lily Dwoskin (Cycle 26)
WOMEN'S WORK, with music by Benji Goldsmith (Cycle 26) and libretto by Seth Christenfeld (Cycle 23)
Lighting Designers from the Department of Design for Stage and Film at Tisch include Michael Cunningham, Bailey Rosa, and Rachel Fae Szymanski.