Harbor (Kremmyda/Coleman, 2016 AOP/NYU Opera Lab)

'Harbor' - a mini-opera
Music by Erato Kremmyda; Libretto by Maggie-Kate Coleman

Randall Eng – Program Director
Kelly Horsted – Music Director/Pianist
Matt Gray – AOP Producing Director
W. Wilson Jones – Stage Manager

Performances by
Eric Brenner, countertenor
Kamala Sankaram, soprano
Deborah van Renterghem, soprano
Jorell Williams, baritone

The Park, represented by three voices, is a sentient being, aware of its own nature as a place of contemplation. Here The Park recounts the memory of an event which has affected the way it sees itself and its function: a woman enters a secluded section early one morning, and after sitting on a bench for a while, douses herself with gasoline and sets herself on fire, with only The Park as her witness. The Park protects her from the view of others in her private, tragic moment, but is frustrated by the passivity of its existence.

PARK AND BARK - 12 MINI-OPERAS ABOUT BROOKLYN'S FORT GREENE PARK
Presented by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, American Opera Projects (AOP), and the Fort Greene Park Conservancy (FGPC)
Recorded May 8, 2016 | 4:00 PM
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York

All of the works were written by students and alumni of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lighting Design by NYU/Tisch’s Graduate Department of Design for Stage and Film.