Everything for Dawn

Synopsis

Written over three years by 15 librettists and composers, this 10-episode serial represents a radical new approach to opera. Bringing together different musical styles and voices, and shot in a sound stage, Everything for Dawn is a mesmerizing synthesis of streaming television and theatrical spectacle. It is an original coming-of-age story spanning the 1990s. Dawn is a teenager dealing with the impact of her father’s suicide and her personal tragedy becomes public when his paintings become celebrated as “outsider art”. With each episode, the opera is an examination of the ways we seek solace in a broken world, community intersectionality, and the rationale for making art. Soprano Britt Hewitt in the role of Dawn, baritone Aaron Engebreth as her father Mac and mezzo-soprano Sishel Claverie as her mother Gloria, as part of a cast of eight, are backed by a six-piece music ensemble. “‘Everything for Dawn’ stretches the boundaries of genre and storytelling to recalibrate opera for the twenty first century.”Opera News

Additional Info

• No: A035501290000
• Production year: 2023
• Run time: 0
• Director: Alison Moritz
• Producers: Experiments in Opera
• Format: HDTV 16:9