Olivier Messiaen’s HARAWI
Co-presented with Ojai Music Festival One Night Only! An American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) Production
Zack Winokur, director
Julia Bullock, soprano
Conor Hanick, piano
Bobbi Jene Smith, dancer/choreographer
Or Schraiber, dancer/choreographer
“Julia Bullock [is] an essential soprano for our times.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
“Many in the arts these days talk a big game about interdisciplinary collaboration, but few walk the walk like AMOC.” The New York Times
HARAWI realizes Olivier Messiaen’s deeply affecting hour-long song cycle for voice and piano in a newly physicalized and dramatized version. Throughout a dozen interconnected love songs, two dancers bring Messiaen’s romantic surrealism to life through their original choreography. All the artists are contributing members of American Modern Opera Company, an adventurous, enterprising collective. Their unique production of HARAWIconnects the relationship between movement and music and adds a new dimension to Messiaen’s searing portrayal of love and loss in the human experience.
Stay after the performance for a talkback with Julia Bullock
Pre-concert Talk by Charles Donelan, Arts Writer
Fri, Oct 4 / 7 PM / Henley Hall 1010, UCSB
FREE to event ticket holders
Great Performances Suite Sponsors: G.A. Fowler Family Foundation and Shanbrom Family Foundation
Presented in association with UCSB Department of Music
Learn More:
Program Overview and Notes by Julia Bullock and Zack Winokur
Meet the Artists: Julia Bullock, Zack Winokur, Conor Hanick, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber
Credit: artsandlectures.ucsb.edu