The Boston Globe said Toussaint “had the audience on its feet, cheering, whistling, and applauding…combines a lyrical outpouring energized by motor rhythms that never become mechanical…compelling, emotional, theatrical.” She is also well known for her vocal works in the cantata form. Her acclaimed opera Toussaint Before the Spirits (Arsis Records, 2005) was called “an illuminating historical musical fantasy” by Opera News. She also received a Guggenheim award to compose her opera Cassandra in the Temples for the Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.
Called “a composer to watch” by Opera News, Ruehr won an Opera America grant to write her opera “Crafting the Bonds”. With work described as “sumptuously scored and full of soaring melodies” (The New York Times), and “unspeakably gorgeous” (Gramophone), American composer Elena Ruehr is known for her lyrical and rhythmically vibrant music.
The MalletKAT is an instrument similar to a synthesizer, but played with mallets by a percussionist. In this opera, the sounds of an actual working Difference Engine were recorded in Seattle, WA, and programed into an electronic marimba (MalletKAT). By bringing this historical figure to light, this opera demonstrates that there is a history of great scientists that are women. Charles Babbage was the eccentric inventor of the “Difference Engine”, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer, if he had ever finished it.Īda Lovelace was the first great genius to develop a programming language, and who is still not generally known. This comedic new opera features Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, the true-life unsung inventors of the first computer, in an alternative universe where they successfully use their new invention to “fight crime'“.Īda Lovelace was a mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is a new one-act opera by composer Elena Rueher and librettist Royce Vavrek, adapted from the a steampunk graphic novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua.
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