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Angel's Bone is an opera by composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek in one act that follows the plight of two angels discovered on earth who are forced into spiritual and sexual slavery at the hands of a financially troubled couple.
Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, vocalist and performance artist.She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek. [2]
for Du Yun: Angel's Bone; for Ricky Ian Gordon: 27; for David T. Little: JFK, Dog Days, Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera; for Missy Mazzoli: Breaking the Waves; with the composer: Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt; for Gregory Spears: O Columbia; Paul Verlaine. for Emmanuel Chabrier: Fisch-Ton-Kan
Royce Vavrek is a Canadian-born Brooklyn-based librettist, playwright, dance scenarist, musical theatre writer and filmmaker known for his collaborations with composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Mikael Karlsson, Ricky Ian Gordon, Paola Prestini and Du Yun, soprano Lauren Worsham, producers Beth Morrison and Lawrence Edelson, and conductors Steven Osgood, Julian Wachner and Alan Pierson.
For example, the one-act opera Das Rheingold has an approximate running time of 2 hours, 35 minutes, while Puccini's four-act opera La bohème and Monteverdi's five-act opera L'Orfeo both have running times of approximately 2 hours.
If she has the voice of an angel, and the face of an angel, she must be an Angel. Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s “Aida” in 36 years. Blue, now 40, debuted at the Met in 2017 as Mimi in Puccini’s “La ...
A marvelously mixed crowd turns out for L.A. Opera's new production of 'Tosca' staring Angel Blue, Gregory Kunde and Ryan McKinny.
Du Yun (BM 2001), composer, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for opera Angel's Bone; Emily Nussbaum (BA 1988), winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism [7] Christopher Rouse (BM 1971 [8]), winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Trombone Concerto; Vijay Seshadri (BA 1974), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ...