Experiments in Opera, NYC and Alter Ego Chamber Opera, PHL Present: Crystal's Channel and Souls Unscreened

Experiments in Opera, NYC and Alter Ego Chamber Opera, PHL Present: Crystal's Channel and Souls Unscreened

at Harmonie Hall*

*Please note this is an upstairs venue

Program:
Crystal’s Channel by Jason Cady
An opera featuring a solo singer with a ventriloquist doll and guitar. She portrays a songwriter who uploads a new, original song everyday to Youtube. The singer and dummy, together, tell the funny and painful story of how she mastered ventriloquism in her adolescence—and how that obsession ended when her mother took her and the doll to an exorcist.

Libretto and Composition: Jason Cady
Soprano and Electric Guitar: Sarah Daniels
Direction: Shannon Sindelar


Souls Unscreened by Roger A. Martinez and Alize Francheska Rozsnyai
The first act of an installation opera about a computer scientist deepfaking herself during the Covid-19 pandemic and developing groundbreaking technology in AI and uploading her consciousness to the cloud.

Composition and Electronics: Roger A. Martinez
Libretto and Soprano: Alize Francheska Rozsnyai
Baritone: Tom Sitzler
Mezzo-Soprano: Kaitlyn Tierney
Conductor: Sepehr Pirasteh
Flute: Chelsea Meynig
Piano: Hannah Han
Violin: Rachel Segal
Viola: Veronica Jurkiewicz
Cello: Leigh Brown