Apparently, the organizers of the West Village Musical Theater Festival were impressed enough with my submission to ask me to collaborate with them on a 10-15 minute opera (or would it be “operetta”?) to be premiered at the festival this June.
At first, I was a bit reluctant. (It has to be completed WHEN??) I’ll have about 2 weeks to write it and another week or so to get the mock-up orchestration ready.
Yikes!
Film and television often works on such tight deadlines, but we’re talking about an opera—not a film! That’s 10-15 solid minutes of artistic music that needs to stand on its own—not just underscoring.
Which is exactly why I decided to take the project. It will be a serious challenge to create something well-done and artistic in such a short amount of time.
It will also mean I’ll have TWO works premiering at the festival: 3 songs from “Another Time”, and my new, as-yet-to-be-composed short opera, “Attente”.
It’s a somewhat dark story about 3 lost souls in purgatory. (I love dark!) But there’s plenty of humor, too. So it’s not completely depressing. As the creator described: think Tim Burton and Danny Elfman.
Ooooooh!
Can’t wait to see the libretto!
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