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As Silent Night, the opera had its East Coast premiere at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on February 8, 2013. [1] It premiered in the Southwest at Bass Performance Hall with Fort Worth Opera on May 4, 2014. [2] The European premiere took place on October 24, 2014, in a new production by Tomer Zvulun, at the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland. [3]
1996-1998 Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence [9] 2002 Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome. 2008 Opera Fund Awards, The Minnesota Opera: Silent Night [10] 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Silent Night (libretto by Mark Campbell) [2] 2023 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Contact
In 2011, Minnesota Opera produced Silent Night by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, an MN Opera commission that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 2013, Minnesota Opera commissioned the opera Doubt by composer Douglas J. Cuomo and librettist John Patrick Shanley. In March 2015, the company gave the premiere performance of ...
With the Minnesota Opera, Christie has conducted world premieres of new three operas, commissioned by the Minnesota Opera as part of its New Works Initiative: [13] Kevin Puts' Silent Night (2011), which won the Pulitzer Prize in music; [14] Puts' The Manchurian Candidate (2015); and Paul Moravec's The Shining (2016). Christie concluded his ...
He has performed in many leading opera houses both nationally and internationally, including premiering the role of Lieutenant Horstmayer in Kevin Puts and Minnesota Opera's acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize winning Silent Night [1] [2] [3] “I’ve had the new-opera experience that no one gets” Irvin is quoted to say by Opera News, in singing ...
Karin Wolverton (born 1974, Roseville, Minnesota) [1] is an American operatic soprano.A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she has performed several roles with the Minnesota Opera, including Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Donna Ines in Maria Padilla and both Mimi and Musetta in La bohème among others.
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In 1980, Saint Paul resident Sally Ordway Irvine (a 3M heiress and arts patron) dreamed of a European-style concert hall offering "everything from opera to the Russian circus". She contributed $7.5 million—a sum matched by other members of the Ordway family—toward the facility's cost.