Heavenly Saints

sample clip of video produced by Kalup Linzy for Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera Installation.

AUGUST 18, 2011 - AUGUST 21, 2011
Novellus Theater at YBCA

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At the time of its debut in 1934, Four Saints overturned operatic convention with a libretto by Stein that emphasized the sound of words over story. Spurred by Stein's language play is Thomson's sublime score, which celebrates the hymns and folks songs at the heart of American music. The new, multimedia-
infused restaging is a rich artistic collaboration among Bay Area contemporary chamber opera group Ensemble Parallèle (production design by Brian Staufenbiel and conducted by Nicole Paiement), composer Luciano Chessa, and artist Kalup Linzy. Based on Thomson's final score, the new production pairs Four Saints with the premiere of A Heavenly Act, a new opera-installation by Chessa, with video and performance by Linzy and libretto also by Stein. The "terrestrial" saints of Thomson's opera will find themselves anticipated and complemented by Chessa and Linzy's "celestial" and projected counterparts.
Like the original, the new opera subversively blurs the lines between art, music, and literature, staying true to Stein and Thomson's daring notion that in making art, as Thomson said, one might also hope to make miracles.

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