Join us for the first-ever presentation of Flashpoints~ the Mannes festival of short operas!

Flashpoints~the Mannes festival of short operas

Director - Emma Griffin
Music director - Cris Frisco

8 dramas in 90 minutes - Mannes' first annual celebration of short opera is a theatrical sampler of incredible composers and librettists, new and old. With the longest opera at 15 minutes, and showcasing the talents of our incredible singers, Mannes Opera launches FLASHPOINTS this spring as an annual festival, celebrating short bites from a selection of stellar composers.

PROGRAM:

Hin und zurück

composer - Paul Hindemith

librettist - Marcellus Schiffer

The Act

composer - Lori Laitman

librettist - H.L. Hix

Night Flight to San Francisco / Harper's Monologue 

composer - Ricky Ian Gordon

librettist - Tony Kushner

600 Square Feet

composer - Nkeiru Okoye

librettist - David Cote

THE LIGHTHOUSE WAVE

composer - Errolyn Wallen

librettist - Errolyn Wallen

Lucy

composer - Tom Cipullo

librettist - Tom Cipullo

A Flourish of Green

composer - Missy Mazzoli

librettist - Mark Campbell

Triple-Sec

composer - Marc Blitzstein

librettist - Ronald Jeans

April 11, 12 @ 7:30pm
April 13 @ 4pm

CAST:

Marcella Astore
Ting-Yi Chen
Wei Chen
Claire Coven
Dalis De la Mothe
Brianna Dulock
Allen Pearcy Galeana
Junze Gong
Melissa Hartman
Maoyu Hou
Yuzhen Jin
Brooke Jones
Joohyun Kim
Alexandra Kzeski
Brea Marshall
Catherine McClure
Dmitry Mironov
Angela Shon
Colin Safley
India Rowland
Tiffany Ye
Shi Yu

MANNES OPERA

Under the leadership of Managing Artistic Director Emma Griffin, Mannes Opera is a dynamic training program for operatic artists, marked by a curiosity for new and a devotion to craft. Situated within the College of Performing Arts at The New School, our program utilizes opera as a medium for exploration, improvisation, and creation, providing students with extensive performance opportunities and practice.

Recent notable productions include Grace McLean’s In the Green, Cavall’s La Calisto, Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters, Die Zauberflöte, Rachel J. Peter’s Mermaid in the Jar, Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens, and Mark Adamo's LYSISTRATA OR THE NUDE GODDESS.  With our commitment to developing and supporting new opera, we have workshopped Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Listeners, Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s The Righteous (in collaboration with Santa Fe Opera), David Little’s Agamemnon (in collaboration with Theatre for a New Audience).

Our mission is to empower students to become versatile and self-assured professional artists, equipped with the skills and agency to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of the performing arts. Mannes Opera is committed to fostering artistic excellence and innovation, guided by the rich traditions of the past and a bold vision for the future.

Mannes Opera's 2023/2024 season features contemporary American operas, including works by composers on the forefront of today’s opera scene. Sirens, mermaids, war, love and earthquakes: these stories center on myth and archetype and examine the human condition through the exploration of ideas both human and mythic. This groundbreaking season displays the virtuosity, thrill and innovation that marks the current explosion of new American work and explores the myths, archetypes, events and trends that inform our zeitgeist.  JOIN US!