Beth Morrison

Beth Morrison is an American producer of contemporary opera.

Morrison is known for her collaborations with many artists through her company Beth Morrison Projects includes composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Du Yun, Paola Prestini, Kamala Sankaram, Darcy James Argue, and David Lang, librettist Royce Vavrek, and performers Lauren Worsham, Abigail Fischer, Nathan Gunn and Courtney Love. With Kim Whitener and Kristin Marting of HERE Arts Center, she created PROTOTYPE Festival, an annual festival of premier opera-theatre and music-theatre by pioneering artists from New York City and around the world.^[1]

Select opera and music-theatre works produced by Beth Morrison

• Soldier Songs (2008, David T. Little, composer and librettist)^[2]
• Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt (2012, Missy Mazzoli, composer; Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek, librettists)^[3]
• Dog Days (2012, David T. Little, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist)^[4]
• Thumbprint (2014, Kamala Sankaram, composer; Susan Yankowitz, librettist)^[5]
• The Source (2014, Ted Hearne, composer; Mark Doten, librettist)^[6]
• Kansas City Choir Boy (2015, Todd Almond, composer and librettist)^[7]
• Anatomy Theater (2016, David Lang composer; Lang and Mark Dion, librettists)^[8]
• Angel's Bone (2016, Du Yun, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist)^[9]
• Aging Magician (2016, Paola Prestini composer, co-created by Prestini, Rinde Eckert and Julian Crouch)^[10]
• Breaking the Waves (2016, Missy Mazzoli, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist)^[11]
• p r i s m (2019, Ellen Reid, composer; Roxie Perkins, librettist)^[12]

Concert works

• 21c Liederabend (2009, 2011, 2013, 2016)^{[13][14][15][16]}
  • A Few Stops on the N Train (2011, Du Yun, composer and lyricist)^[17]
  • Albert, Bound or Unbound (2013, Marie Incontrera, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist)^[18]
• Brooklyn Village (2012)^[19]
  • Home (2012) (Sarah Kirkland Snider, composer; Nathaniel Bellows, lyricist)
  • Canvas (2012) (Matthew Mehlan, composer; Royce Vavrek, lyricist)
  • Am I Born (2012) (David T. Little, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist)^[20]
• The Hubble Cantata (2016, Paola Prestini, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist)^[21]

References

1. Smith, Steve (27 October 2017). "Beth Morrison, Opera Producer With Prototype Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
2. "Soldier Songs Staged". Feast of Music. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
3. Smith, Steve (26 February 2012). "'Song From the Uproar' at the Kitchen". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
4. Smith, Steve (3 October 2012). "'Dog Days,' New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
5. Woolfe, Zachary (27 October 2017). "'Thumbprint,' a Chamber Opera, at Baruch Arts Center". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
6. "The Source".
7. "'Kansas City Choir Boy' a good start to Courtney Love's comeback". 9 January 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
8. "LA Opera - anatomy theater". www.laopera.org. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
9. Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna da (27 October 2017). "Review: In 'Angel's Bone,' Terrified Seraphim at the Mercy of Mortals". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
10. "Aging Magician". www.walkerart.org. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
11. Wise, Brian (21 September 2016). "Breaking the Waves: Lars von Trier's 'true love story' becomes an opera". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2017 – via www.theguardian.com.
12. "With Ellen Reid's incandescent 'prism,' an opera composer is born". www.latimes.com. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
13. "21c Liederabend - Classical and opera - reviews, guides, things to do, film - Time Out New York". Time Out New York. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
14. "21c Liederabend". Retrieved 27 October 2017.
15. Smith, Steve (25 November 2013). "21c Liederabend at BAM Harvey Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
16. "21c Liederabend, op. LA". www.laphil.com. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
17. "Meet the Composers of This Weekend's 21c Liederabend". 7 April 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
18. BAMorg (12 November 2013). "21c Liederabend, op. 3: Cree Carrico "Albert, Bound or Unbound"". Retrieved 27 October 2017 – via YouTube.
19. Smith, Steve (26 March 2012). "Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Roulette". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
20. "A Gesamtkunstwerk Grows in Brooklyn". 26 March 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
21. "A 6,000-Person Tour of the Orion Nebula Lands in Brooklyn". 25 July 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2017.