Recipient of both the Rome and Berlin Prizes, as well as a 2014 TED Fellowship, Dan Visconti is uniquely suited to Jacobs’s latest project. PermaDeath is produced by White Snake Projects. Jacobs’s longtime collaborator Zane Pihlstrom serves as set and costume designer. Performers include sopranos Rachele Gilmore and Amy Shoremount-Obra mezzos Sarah Coit and Shirin Eskandani countertenor Patrick Dailey tenor Stephen Carroll and baritone Josh Quinn and bass Christopher Carbin, who were both involved in workshops of Jacobs’s last opera, REV. New York-based opera director Sam Helfrich, who helmed the first performances in New York of Péter Eötvös’s Angels in America at New York City Opera last year, directs and conducting Visconti’s score is Daniela Candillari, who has worked with Bang on a Can Opera and recently conducted Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The libretto was co-written with Jacobs’s son, Pirate Epstein, founder of the video game company SqueePlay and a former New England Halo champion.
PermaDeath is the “intrepid and artistically ambitious” ( Opera magazine) Jacobs’s most technologically sophisticated work to date, requiring a host of technical collaborators, and focuses on a central character suffering from ALS, which required an entirely different kind of collaboration and research. The world premiere of the video game opera PermaDeath, written by creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs and composed by Dan Visconti, the composer of Opera Philadelphia’s recent Andy Warhol-themed ANDY: A Popera, takes place at Boston’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater from September 27-29. PermaDeath, a New Video Game Opera from Creator and Librettist Cerise Jacobs and Composer Dan Visconti, Premieres in Boston Sep 27-29įor immediate release Contact Glenn Petry (212) 625 2038
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