Bearthoven: Off the Ground 2020 with Experiments in Opera

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 to Saturday, March 7, 2020

Bearthoven joins the musicians and composers of Experiments in Opera in a workshop featuring a first look at the new opera being generated by the Experiments in Opera Writers’ Room (Title TBD). The Untitled Writers’ Room Opera (Part One) includes the first three episodes of a longer ten-episode piece that will receive its full premiere in the spring of 2021 as part of EiO’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. The new opera is about an aspiring artist who grapples first with her father’s suicide and then with the unexpected fame of his paintings which become celebrated as “outsider art.” The three episodes included in Part One of this opera will be composed by Jason Cady, Pauline Kim and Phil Kline, based on librettos by Jason Cady, Jerome Parker and Lauren D’Errico.

An additional opera (TBD) will be workshopped on the final two days of this weeklong project.

The Flea Theater
New York, NY