Metamodern Opera

07/25/2022

More operatic than Puccini.

New York City club CBGB's in December 1982. SETLIST: 1. Big Take Over 2. Attitude 3. I 4. I and I Rasta 5. Supertouch / Sh*tfit 6. King of Glory ...

07/24/2022

We’re putting together a website! It’s a pile right now but aesthetics and “about” section feedback welcome.

metamodernopera.com

07/24/2022

Hero, Legend, Visionary

05/30/2022

Found on Google from www.hollywoodreporter.com

05/29/2022

Stephen

05/29/2022

Henry Hudson, my dear fellow fragile artist and friend

05/28/2022

Background on Founder and Director, Mac Morris :

Educated at St. Bernard’s , graduated by Taft and Dartmouth (2011)--English with focus on poetics and modernist criticism (advanced research on Dickinson’s use of sonority and near rhyme misguidedly redacted by sister-in-law and unitarian minister, Thms. W. Higginson). Between Taft and Dartmouth, Mac studied opera at Kunstuniversität Graz (German, Italian, Musicology, rigorous voice work, professional choir under Dr. Johannes Prinz).

Upon receiving BA, Mac completed the analyst program in Capital Markets at Citigroup in London as a Credit Sector Specialist, trading Investment Grade Corporate cash bonds and CDS for four years. At the encouragement of his wife, he returned to the arts and enrolled at Guildhall School of Music and Drama as one of three librettists for the 2021 MA in Opera Writing, the only program of its kind.

Since then, he has written and produced two chamber operas (The Watchmaker’s Daughter, showcasing a bereft widower who invents an anti-time watch to escape his implacable despair, as well as Rosemary, an imagined rendering of Rosemary Kennedy’s inner mind following her infamous, botched lobotomy in 1941), two voice works (one on phonosemantics nominated for best new vocal work at the Guildhall song prizes), several scene sketches including a reinterpretation of the Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood as an allegory for racial violence, plus a substantial body of poetry.

He has also written extensively on the libretti of Auden, Kallman and Slater and is currently researching a critical theory book on meta-modernism’s contemporary influence in poetry, music and the performing arts.

05/25/2022