Portrait and a Dream - TRAILER (Jackson Pollock Opera)

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Portrait and a Dream (2021), an opera about Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner
by Brian Petuch

Audio excerpt - "Mural" from Act 1 of Portrait and a Dream

Lee Krasner - Kendra Berentsen
Jackson Pollock - Brian Giebler
Hans Hofmann, Hans Namuth - Ricardo Rivera

Commissioned and premiered by Contemporaneous, conducted by David Bloom
This filming is from the premiere on 9/18/21 at Irondale Center in Brooklyn, NY

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Much gratitude to Helen Harrison and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center for granting use and access to the interviews from Jeffrey Potter's book "To a Violent Grave".

Video filmed and edited by Mary & Christopher Smith at Point of Order Productions

Associate Video Design - Adam J. Thompson
Production Stage Manager - Dustin Z. West
Assistant Stage Manager - Thomas Giles
Production Manager - Zachary James Ritter
Technical Director - Steven Brenman
Production Interns - Claudia Cangemi, Wendy Kya
Live Sound - Zack O’Brien
Recording Engineer - Charles Mueller
Mastering Engineer - Matt Baltrucki
Produced by Contemporaneous

Flute - Fanny Wyrick-Flax
Oboe - Stuart Breczinski
Clarinet - Madison Greenstone
Saxophone - Daniel Kochersberger
Bassoon - Dirk Wels
Horn - Cameron West
Trumpet - Evan Honse
Trombone - Daniel Linden
Bass Trombone - Owen Caprell
Percussion - Matt Evans, Adam Holmes, Robby Bowen
Keyboard - Paul Kerekes
Piano - Isabelle O'Connell
Harp - Anna Bikales
E Bass - Tristan Kasten-Krause
Violin 1 - Sabrina Tabby
Violin 2 - Finnegan Shanahan
Violin 3 - Nikita Morozov
Violin 4/Viola 2 - Josh Henderson
Viola 1 - Chelsea Wimmer
Cello 1 - Amanda Gookin
Cello 2 - Julia Henderson
Contrabass - Pat Swoboda

Special thanks to Floy & Kurt Berentsen, Linda & Ed Petuch, Antonio Romero, Paul Kerekes, Michael Roberts, Emily Moore, Matt Baltrucki, David Lang, Glenn Whitworth, Morgan Spann, and Jenna Lipman

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To tell about a man’s life by anecdote is swinish – yet history is now beginning to file away those peculiar sentiments that make glamour out of unhappiness, and unhappiness out of art.

With Pollock, we have a double tragedy – both death and a life in the art world came too soon.

Jackson, oh Jackson – we did not know you. Why do we feel it is our fault. Why is it that we make this terrible separation from what a man does and what a man is, from what a man should do, and from what a man can’t do. And how we watched you, El Matador, waiting for the slaughter or the glory.

-Morton Feldman

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