The Tempest Songbook
A Music, Dance and Video Show
The Tempest Songbook
A Music, Dance and Video Show
Premiere: Metropolitan Museum, New York, March 27th, 28th & 29th, 2015
Music: Henry Purcell & Kaija Saariaho
Conductor: Neal Goren
Jennifer Zetlan, soprano
Thomas Richards, bass-baritone
Direction, Choreography & Scenic Design: Luca Veggetti
Dancers from the Martha Graham Dance Company:
Peiju Chien-Pott, Abdiel Jacobsen, Lloyd Mayor, and Ying Xin
Video Conception & Realization: Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Cameras: Isabelle Barrière, Computer Video Assistant: Thomas Goepfer
Scenic & Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: Peter Speliopoulos
Production: Gotham Chamber Opera, with the Martha Graham Dance Company
The Tempest Songbook is a music, dance and video show, build on a musical braid interweaving some of the incidental music for Shakespeare's The Tempest (composed in 1695 and attributed to Henry Purcell), and Kaija Saariaho's Tempest Songbook for soprano, baritone, and period instrument ensemble, presented by the Gotham Chamber Opera in its U.S. and World Stage premieres at the Metropolitan Museum’s Auditorium.
The Tempest Songbook explores freely the themes of Shakespeare's play, creating a lyrical vision through music, dance, and video.
Still images illustrating the different roles of the video in the show