[BROADCAST] Beth Morrison Projects: Opera of the Week – Acquanetta
Free
Michael Gordon – Acquanetta
BMP is keeping the work of our artists out in the world as theaters are shuttered by offering an “Opera of the Week" which will stream on our homepage for one week every Thursday at noon.
This week we are featuring Michael Gordon and Deborah Artman's Acquanetta, directed by Daniel Fish.
In Acquanetta, the spirit of 1940s horror movies is turned inside out in a bravura, one-act deconstruction of the genre that explores how vision relates to identity. Characters include the mad scientist Doctor; the insistent Ape; the reluctant Brainy Woman; the visionary Director; and the beautiful Acquanetta, aka Mildred Davenport, an actress who disguised her identity. Acquanetta examines the ways the movie camera manipulates how we see and are seen. In soaring, sometimes comic and always indelible songs that capture the heightened drama of horror films, these vivid characters reveal their inner longings and emotional shadows in what is ultimately a haunting meditation on the meaning of identity, transformation, stereotypes, and typecasting, set in the heyday of Hollywood gloss.
The broadcast will start at 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific
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