FRESH SQUEEZED OPERA PRESENTS

Self-Defined Circuits

Music by Jillian Flexner
Libretto by Orlando Segarra

May 3 & 5–7, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Dorothy B. Williams Theater, HERE Performing Arts Center
145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013

Michael Hofmann, Stage Director
Whitney George, Music Director
April Bartlett, Scenic Designer
Jennifer Burkhardt, Lighting Designer
Ted Boyce-Smith and Taylor Edelle Stuart, Video & Projection Designers
Corina Chase, Costume Designer
Victoria Benson, Production Manager

Newly created, a sex robot seeks to discover what it means to be a woman while trapped in a world created by her programmer, Pete, and his "Siri" device, Cora. Inspired in part by the composer's own experiences in an abusive relationship during her formative years, and the works of sci-fi pioneers Isaac Asimov and Ursula Le Guin, this world-premiere opera is a story of womanhood, artificial intelligence, and self-actualization.

Scenes from opera's history are reimagined in 360 degrees as students of the college's Opera Workshop perform in-the-round. The performance weaves together narrative threads in excerpts of operas by Mozart, Purcell, Poulenc, and others for an intimate and unique operatic experience.

LUMA Theater, Fisher Center at Bard
Tickets: $5, free for Bard students

January 31 at 8 pm
February 1 at 8 pm
February 2 at 3 pm

Michael Hofmann, director
Micah Gleason, Renée Ann Louprette, and David Mascari, music directors
Andrew Hill, lighting designer
Sharon Greene, costume designer

Assistant Stage Director

Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY
November 11, 12, 15, 18, and 19 at 4 pm

To mark the centenary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the re-opening of New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall in partnership with The Millay Colony for the Arts has commissioned a new production of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s rarely performed opera The Mother of Us All. Using real and imagined characters, The Mother of Us All is about Susan B. Anthony and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in America, which began in upstate New York.  Anthony spoke twice on the very stage where this opera will be performed.

R.B. Schlather, stage director
Tony Kieraldo, music director