Kidnapping Water Trailer

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas travels through warnings, prayers, fantasies, and whispers with hiking opera singers and water percussionists. The site-specific performance includes 64 musical miniatures inspired by the I Ching (Book of Changes). This trailer video shows an excerpt from Bottled Opera No. 52, performed by Emily Greenleaf and Stuart McLeod at Kubota Garden. Additional Footage from Puget Sound, White River, and the DuPen Fountain at the Seattle Center.

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is a site-responsive work available as Waterway Performances and a Sound/Light Installation. Visit hearbyron.com for more info.

Music Byron Au Yong
Libretto Vivian Umino

Videographers Eric Rockey, Jean-Stephane
Editor Vivian Umino

Project Manager Pike Pin
Audio Engineers Tom Stiles, CJ Lazenby
Costume Designer Emily Carlsen
Logo Wing Fong

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas was performed as part of 4Culture's Site-Specific Performance Network and Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts in Summer 2008.

Special thanks to support from Jack Straw Productions and Creative Capitals Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• opera
• environment
• water
• bottled water
• green
• garden
• Seattle
• singing
• drumming
• performance
• I Ching
• Emily Greenleaf
• Stuart McLeod
• Vivian Umino
• DuPen Fountain
• Kubota Garden
• 4Culture
• Creative Capital
• MAP Fund
• Jack Straw
• Bumbershoot
• Abunai