Isola
$23.05
- Ariadne Greif, soprano
- Miho Saegusa, violin
- Jennifer Liu, violin
- Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Isola is a new operatic and prismatic meditation on time, mental health, and isolation. A collaborative project undertaken by Opera America grantees Alyssa Weinberg and J. Mae Barizo, the title is taken from the word "isola," at turns meaning isolation, an island, or the archipelago in the Pacific Ocean where Barizo’s parents emigrated from the year before her birth.
Composed by Alyssa Weinberg
Text by J. Mae Barizo
Isola is presented as part of [working titles], a new program curated and produced by Amanda + James featuring works in development of opera and music-theater.
About Ariadne Greif, soprano
Ariadne Greif, praised for her "luminous, expressive voice," "searing top notes," and "dusky depths," (NYTimes), enjoyed a casual child career as a “boy” soprano at the LA Opera, eventually making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She starred in operas ranging from Donizetti’s Elixir of Love with The Orlando Philharmonic, to Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aldeburgh Festival, and Atthis, by G.F. Haas, which The NY Times called "one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times.”
She performed with William Kentridge in his production of Ursonate at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Performa Festival, CalPerformances, and the Ultima Festival in Oslo, where she was invited back for September 2020 and 2022 with two large pieces of her own. She stepped in at the last minute at the 2022 Ojai Festival with AMOC, and starred in a film for Opera Philadelphia of We Need To Talk, a new monodrama written for Ariadne by Caroline Shaw and Anne Carson, as well as an opera film called Table Manners by Sheree Clement. Ariadne has premiered upwards of twenty new operas and more than a hundred new chamber works.
Ariadne has performed at Resonant Bodies, Sydney Chamber Opera, Sarasota Opera House, The Meidan Festival, Den Norske Opera, with the Orlando Philharmonic, The Knights, and across the US, Canada, France, Finland, and the Middle East, including more than 200 concerts with Ensemble Mélange, and in appearances with Pekka Kuusisto, Gabriel Kahane, Lukas Ligeti, and JACK Quartet, among others.
http://www.ariadnegreifsoprano.com/About Miho Saegusa, violin
About Jennifer Liu, violin
About Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Cellist Gabriel Cabezas is a true 21st-century musician. A prolific and sought-after soloist and collaborator, he is as comfortable interpreting new works as he is performing the pillar scores of the cello repertoire. He has appeared with America's finest symphony orchestras and has premiered dozens of new works by some of the most brilliant composers of his time.
https://www.gabrielcabezas.com/