Organization

Conductor

Alan Pierson

Stage director

Laine Rettmer

Beth Morrison Projects

Prototype

Singer

Miriam Khalil

Soloist

Marc Kudisch

David Adam Moore

Omar Najmi

Naomi Louisa O'Connell

Karim Sulayman

Instrumentalist

Courtney Orlando

Silvana Quartet

Nicole Sharlow

Gillian Gallagher

Maria Jeffers

Lighting designer

Scott Bolman

Costume designer

Rachel Dainer-Best

Adoration

New York City

United States

Trinity Church Wall Street

Adoration Kouyoumdjian

Public

Private

Approved

Mary Kouyoumdjian describes her pathway to becoming a composer and the genesis of her latest opera, “Adoration,” based on the film by Atom Egoyan and written...

An adaptation of Atom Egoyan’s film of the same name, Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a historical terrorist attack as an event perpetrated by his parents. When his story goes viral, Simon uses the hysteria within his community and on the internet to highlight the challenges of intolerance and racism in our society. The fictional and actual circumstances of the loss of Simon’s family are revealed in fragments, only fitting together with the final revelation that the prejudices of Simon’s maternal grandfather led to his parents’ deaths.

Hate is too often portrayed as binary. We either hate or we don’t. We hate someone for something they did or some perceived slight, or we hate “the other.” Yet we are not born with hate—it is learned, nurtured, and developed over the course of a lifetime. Adoration tells two simultaneous stories—a fictional story of terrorism and betrayal juxtaposed with a real story of family strife and rejection of something foreign.

English

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Instrumentation

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