2017 Season Announcement!
June 2017:
Creación de Música
We will be featuring a concert of selected works from a variety of Latinx classical composers. Save the date for June 23rd and join us as we celebrate Latin vocal music that continues to inspire and influence music creation all across the globe.
October 2017:
With Blood With Ink
Music by Daniel Crozier
Text by Peter M Krask
With Blood, With Ink tells the story of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century nun and one of Mexico's greatest female writers. Known as the "Tenth Muse," her writings inspired devotion and controversy that eventually led to the church forcing her to renounce her life's work. Told from the perspective of Juana at the end of her life, With Blood, With Ink is a lyrically beautiful look at the female voice and the role of religion in promoting and repressing that voice.
The opera had it's professional premiere at Fort Worth Opera in April of 2014. Hear what critics had to say...
Theatre Jones describes the opera as:
"...an engrossing theater piece that uses opera as a language in the way that Oscar Wilde used French for his play Salome. This musical medium for the message about the life of Sor Juana is an inspired choice that is brilliantly executed by composer and librettist."
Opera News says:
"With Blood, With Ink greatly exceeds the sum of its parts and becomes extraordinary."
We are very excited to bring Crozier and Krask's opera to Chicago this October 2017 as our third Chicago premiere.
Creación de Música
We will be featuring a concert of selected works from a variety of Latinx classical composers. Save the date for June 23rd and join us as we celebrate Latin vocal music that continues to inspire and influence music creation all across the globe.
October 2017:
With Blood With Ink
Music by Daniel Crozier
Text by Peter M Krask
With Blood, With Ink tells the story of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century nun and one of Mexico's greatest female writers. Known as the "Tenth Muse," her writings inspired devotion and controversy that eventually led to the church forcing her to renounce her life's work. Told from the perspective of Juana at the end of her life, With Blood, With Ink is a lyrically beautiful look at the female voice and the role of religion in promoting and repressing that voice.
The opera had it's professional premiere at Fort Worth Opera in April of 2014. Hear what critics had to say...
Theatre Jones describes the opera as:
"...an engrossing theater piece that uses opera as a language in the way that Oscar Wilde used French for his play Salome. This musical medium for the message about the life of Sor Juana is an inspired choice that is brilliantly executed by composer and librettist."
Opera News says:
"With Blood, With Ink greatly exceeds the sum of its parts and becomes extraordinary."
We are very excited to bring Crozier and Krask's opera to Chicago this October 2017 as our third Chicago premiere.
