Opera Cabal
19 February 2010, 8:00 - 10:00PM
Mark your calendar for the evening of Friday, February 19, for a performance of Opera Cabal and a reception. Order
tickets for the opera directly from http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/92977;
they are $10/student and $20/general admission.
Details regarding the reception will be sent in an e-mail to the
Princeton-Chicago list. The performance
takes place from 8-10 p.m. in Curtiss Hall at the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave.
in Chicago. Commissioned by Opera Cabal in 2008, USW (“und so weiter” in German, meaning “and
so on”) is a one-act, multi-media chamber opera based on the life, social
conditions, and writing of the Polish/German socialist Rosa Luxemburg. The text, assembled by the composer Lewis Nielson,
Chair of Composition at Oberlin
College, consists of
fragmentary passage in multiple languages from works by Luxemburg and other
prominent socialists in the 19th Century, and poets from the turn of
the 20th Century. Emmy
Award-winning director Habib Azar and video artist Alexander Overington weave
together a stage action that is at times complementary to and at times
alienated from Nielson’s austerely beautiful score. Majel
Connery ’01, a Music and Composition Major, plays Rosa Luxemburg and is
also Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Opera Cabal. For further information on the show, visit http://operacabal.blogspot.com or http://operacabal.com. You can also check out a trailer of the
group’s work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGGxZB.
If you have any questions about the Club or getting involved, feel free to contact our President,
Carl R. Yudell '75.
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