The American Opera Project webinar
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The American Opera Project invites you for a webinar and Q&A session about Composers & the Voice. During this webinar, C&V’s program directors Steven Osgood, Matt Gray, and Mila Henry will explain the details of the 2-year program, share videos of previous C&V projects from first workshop to final product, and answer YOUR questions!Watch the full webinar at https://www.facebook.com/aopopera/live/ or https://youtu.be/Xs-6sUh7ZmA

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Scene 13 In the Wilderness
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Scene 13 In the Wilderness

[ditty_news_ticker id="21103"][ditty_news_ticker id="20176"]Inspired by life on Spring Street, Manhattan - setting the poetry of Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo to music by Pete Wyer.Exclusive world premier, full performance here Saturday 24th July 2021. HEDAY INOUE is The Caretaker - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HEREJOY TAMAYO is The Optimist - enjoy her Jeeni Showcase HEREMAREN MONTALBANO is The Watcher - enjoy her Jeeni Showcase HEREPETE WYER is The Composer - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HEREMATT GRAY is The Film Director - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HERESTEVE DALACHINSKY is The Poet - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HEREYUKO OTOMO is The Poet - enjoy her Jeeni Showcase HEREJoy Tamayo, soprano Maren Montalbano, mezzo soprano Heday Inoue, bass baritone Maria Grigoryeva, violins Vladimir Stoletov, viola Lyudmila Kadyrbaeva, cello Pete M Wyer guitar, bass, keyboard Josh Plotner, saxes Bobby Previte, drums Spring Street film (2021), Matt Gray Original film (1996), Norbert Nowotsch Film edit, Pete M. Wyer Music Direction, Mila Henry Studio Music Supervision, Daniel Lazour Recorded at Eastside Sound, New York, Three Horses Studio, New York Mixed at Press Play, London Libretto Poems, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo Spring Street Opera by Pete Wyer

Matt Gray, movie and music film director, Inside Story interview
09:40
Matt Gray, movie and music film director, Inside Story interview

Matt Gray, movie and music film director for New York Opera Project, interviewed by Kate Stewart for exclusive Jeeni Inside Story interview

Performer Portraits: Maren Montalbano
08:39
Performer Portraits: Maren Montalbano

Maren Montalbano began her vocal career with the San Francisco Girls Chorus at age seven, and has been singing ever since. A graduate of both New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University, Ms. Montalbano can be heard in three GRAMMY Award-winning albums: John Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning work, On the Transmigration of Souls (2005), and Gavin Bryars’ The Fifth Century (2018), and Lansing McLoskey’s Zealot Canticles (2019), on which she is a featured soloist.

Steve Dalachinsky / Richard Comte / Makoto Sato / Itaru Oki
24:35
Steve Dalachinsky / Richard Comte / Makoto Sato / Itaru Oki

Steve Dalachinsky - Poem, voiceRichard Comte - guitar, pianoItaru Oki. - Trumpet, flute

Scene 13 In the Wilderness
04:26
Scene 13 In the Wilderness

[ditty_news_ticker id="21103"][ditty_news_ticker id="20176"]Inspired by life on Spring Street, Manhattan - setting the poetry of Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo to music by Pete Wyer.Exclusive world premier, full performance here Saturday 24th July 2021. HEDAY INOUE is The Caretaker - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HEREJOY TAMAYO is The Optimist - enjoy her Jeeni Showcase HEREMAREN MONTALBANO is The Watcher - enjoy her Jeeni Showcase HEREPETE WYER is The Composer - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HEREMATT GRAY is The Film Director - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HERESTEVE DALACHINSKY is The Poet - enjoy his Jeeni Showcase HEREYUKO OTOMO is The Poet - enjoy her Jeeni Showcase HEREJoy Tamayo, soprano Maren Montalbano, mezzo soprano Heday Inoue, bass baritone Maria Grigoryeva, violins Vladimir Stoletov, viola Lyudmila Kadyrbaeva, cello Pete M Wyer guitar, bass, keyboard Josh Plotner, saxes Bobby Previte, drums Spring Street film (2021), Matt Gray Original film (1996), Norbert Nowotsch Film edit, Pete M. Wyer Music Direction, Mila Henry Studio Music Supervision, Daniel Lazour Recorded at Eastside Sound, New York, Three Horses Studio, New York Mixed at Press Play, London Libretto Poems, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo Spring Street Opera by Pete Wyer


Matt Gray, movie and music film director, Inside Story interview
09:40
Matt Gray, movie and music film director, Inside Story interview

Matt Gray, movie and music film director for New York Opera Project, interviewed by Kate Stewart for exclusive Jeeni Inside Story interview


Performer Portraits: Maren Montalbano
08:39
Performer Portraits: Maren Montalbano

Maren Montalbano began her vocal career with the San Francisco Girls Chorus at age seven, and has been singing ever since. A graduate of both New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University, Ms. Montalbano can be heard in three GRAMMY Award-winning albums: John Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning work, On the Transmigration of Souls (2005), and Gavin Bryars’ The Fifth Century (2018), and Lansing McLoskey’s Zealot Canticles (2019), on which she is a featured soloist.


Steve Dalachinsky / Richard Comte / Makoto Sato / Itaru Oki
24:35
Steve Dalachinsky / Richard Comte / Makoto Sato / Itaru Oki

Steve Dalachinsky - Poem, voiceRichard Comte - guitar, pianoItaru Oki. - Trumpet, flute