Name: Schoenberg in Hollywood
Start: 2018-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-11-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Emerson Paramount Center

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Singer

Baritone

Omar Ebrahim

Schoenberg

Soprano

Sara Womble

Girl

Tenor

Jesse Darden

Conductor

David Angus

Set designer

Simon Higlett

Costume designer

Nancy Leary

Lighting designer

Pablo Santiago

Choreographer

Karole Armitage

Stage director

Assistant Stage Director

Kirsten Cairns

Sound designer

Ben Bloomberg

Concert master

Annie Rabbat

Chorus master

Brett Hodgdon

Boston Lyric Opera

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Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra

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Schoenberg in Hollywood

Boston

United States

Emerson Paramount Center

Schoenberg in Hollywood Machover

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The brilliant composer Arnold Schoenberg fled the darkness and despair of Hitler’s Europe and found himself in 1930s Hollywood—a bold, new world of golden sunshine and camera-ready beauty. Can he find a way to reconcile reflection with action, and tradition with revolution? What is the meaning of art in the wake of atrocity?

In this World Premiere from BLO’s New Works Initiative, internationally acclaimed composer Tod Machover, based in Boston, along with librettist Simon Robson, explores a great artist’s personal struggle, finding humor, heroism, and—ultimately—hope.
Arnold Schoenberg’s remarkable life intersected with some of the most traumatic and violent human atrocities of the 20th century—born a Jew in Vienna, he converted to the Lutheran faith as a young adult, served in World War I, faced the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, and re-converted to Judaism just before he and his family fled to the United States as refugees.

Schoenberg in Hollywood dramatizes many of these moments in his life, as the character of Schoenberg strives to find artistic meaning in the wake of brutality and personal loss—an aspiration that all of us, as artists and audience members, share.

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