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Join us at 7PM EDT (-500GMT) for our final webcast from the American Lyric Theater InsightALT Festival - a showcase of new works.

Tonight's opera, La Reina, is a concert reading of a new opera in development at ALT.

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS ADULT THEMES, LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE and is recommended for mature audiences.
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Music by Jorge Sosa
Libretto by Laura Sosa Pedroza
Featuring: Audrey Babcock, Audrey Luna, Rosa Betancourt, Christopher Burchett, Dominic Armstrong, Javier Abreu, Tom McNichols, Joseph Beutel, John Matthew Meyers and Michael Zegarski; conducted by Andrew Bisantz.
Through the eyes of one of the most notorious drug queenpins in history, La Reina sheds light on the violent, real life events taking place in Mexico and the United States in the ongoing drug wars. The opera is being written in both Spanish and English, and features an electro-acoustic score.

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We have been webcasting all week from the InsightALT Festival
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ALL TIMES US EDT -500GMT

Todays events are:
Sun, Jun 2 3:00 PM
Symposium: Of Arms and the Man I Sing
How have some operas glorified war while others have laid bare its horrors? Dramaturg Cori Ellison returns to lead this symposium with guest artists including Brian Castner, author of the critically acclaimed book, The Long Walk, which serves as the inspiration for ALT’s new opera of the same name; The Long Walk composer and librettist Jeremy Howard Beck and Stephanie Fleischmann; and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, who recently collaborated on the wildly successful new opera, Silent Night.

Sun, Jun 2 7:00 PM

Public readings of three new operas at different stages of their development will be at the center of the 2013 festivalTHE LONG WALK
Music by Jeremy Howard Beck
Libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann
Based on the book The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows by Brian Castner.

FEATURING: Daniel Belcher, Heather Johnson, Glenn Seven Allen, Kyle Bielfield, Justin Hopkins, Caroline Worra, Donita Volkwijn, Benjamin P. Wenzelberg, Mercer Patterson, and Hayden Wall; conducted by Steven Osgood.

The Long Walk, is based on Brian Castner’s critically acclaimed memoir of the same name, which describes a soldier’s return from Iraq where he served as an officer in an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit and his battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as he tries to reintegrate into his family life upon his return from the war. This haunting and moving new opera makes the paradox of coming home from war and the near impossibility of a smooth reintegration come alive.

Viktor Ullmann's opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin.

Czech-German composer's satire on Adolf Hitler, The Emperor from Atlantis, to be staged at former SS and Gestapo HQ





Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic. Photograph: Radek Petrasek/epa/Corbis


It is a small operatic gem that was written under torturous circumstances and almost failed to see the light of day when its composer was dragged off to the gas chambers before being able to hear it performed. But it lives on thanks to a professor of philosophy who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp, where it was written, and who preserved the manuscript.

Now a Berlin orchestra and an American conductor are to revive The Emperor from Atlantis by Czech-German composer Viktor Ullmann on a more than unusual stage – the former headquarters of the SS and Gestapo in the German capital, known as the Topography of Terror. "We wanted to reinforce the immediacy of the genocide of Ullmann and whole schools of composers of that time and this is a far more effective mise en scène than an opera house would be," said John Axelrod, the US conductor who is leading the project.

Ullmann, who was Jewish and had been a pupil of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, wrote the operatic satire on Adolf Hitler knowing full well that it would lead to his death. The nature of its contents was not lost on the SS authorities of Theresienstadt, who soon after the final rehearsal of the work, in March 1944, deported Ullmann to Auschwitz, along with his librettist, Peter Kien, where he was murdered on 18 October aged 46.


More on this article.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013...revived-berlin