[Vwoolf] Opera inspired by Woolf: NYC performances upcoming (3 perfs. 11/2 & 11/3)

[Anne Fernald]

Dear Woolfians,

My friend, the wonderful novelist Monique Truong, has been at work on a
libretto inspired by her reading of Woolf.

Here's more information about her work and work by Joan LaBarbara (inspired
by "A Sketch of the Past").

http://experimentsinopera.com/portfolio-item/modularias/

Be well,

Anne

*Virginia and the Time Machine* by Joan La Barbara
With World War II drawing closer to England each day and critics decrying
her newly published book on pacifism and women’s right, Virginia W. is
besieged by voices of discord and ridicule. Trying to silence them, she
imagines—and therefore possesses—a device with which she can turn a dial
and listen to another time and place: August 1890, in St. Ives, a remote
village on the Cornwall coast. Returning to the idyllic summers of her
childhood, bathed in the sounds, sights, and the early morning light
refracting off the Celtic Sea, she is eight years old, and her idealized,
beloved Mother, then the heart of the family, is still alive. At the edge
of this longed-for soundscape are jarring doubts, clashing facts about her
childhood, and intimations of the tragedies to come, that disrupt Virginia
W.’s reverie. The synthesizer serves here as a sonic time machine, bringing
the sounds of what was and what was lost and intermingling them with
Virginia W.’s present, creating a moment out of time, a neither here nor
there, when she is both woman and girl, public author and private being,
real and imagined.

*Virginia and the Time Machine*
Joan La Barbara – composer/vocalist
Julia Meadows – soprano
Miguel Frasconi – synthesizer, sampler
Bryan Hayslett – cello
Monique Truong – librettist


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Anne E. Fernald <http://www.fordham.edu/info/24101/anne_fernald> (she/her)
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Special Advisor to the Provost for Faculty Development
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