Esperanza Spalding
Iphigenia: A New Opera
Cutler Majestic Theatre
219 Tremont St
Boston, MA 02116
Nov 13, 2021
2:00 PM EST
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Her life became a myth. Now, hear her truth.
WORLD PREMIERE. Iphigenia was born to be sacrificed – or so the Greek myth would have us believe. But what if she contests her fate? What if the winds don’t blow and the sails hang limp in the sea air? Staring down the history of opera, Iphigenia makes some demands on its future: no more tragic women singing through suicide and going mad in perfect pitch and no more spectacles of women dead and dying. With music by jazz legend Wayne Shorter, libretto by multi-GRAMMY® winning musician esperanza spalding, scenic design by famed architect Frank Gehry, and direction by the acclaimed Lileana Blain-Cruz. An intervention to opera as we know it, Iphigenia disrupts the traditional tale of the sacrificial daughter of Greece in a work that envelopes the classical with the contemporary.
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Grant
June 13th 2025
Morgan Guerin is incredible, and incredibly doesn’t upstage esperanza Spalding while switching between performing duties on Rhodes piano,Hammond Organ, Saxophone, and playing bass while singing backup harmonies. The entire show was light-hearted and yet sought to make a real connection with the audience - and the crowd stayed interfaced through the journey.
There were some audio issues - I think they had trouble getting the stand up bass to be represented across its upper range - but all in all an amazing performance.
Indianapolis, IN@Murat Theatre
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Esperanza Spalding Biography
esperanza spalding (a.k.a. irma nejando) is an eaabibacliitoti* artist, trained and initiated in the North American (masculine) jazz lineage and tradition. Her work interweaves various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance, therapeutic research, storytelling, teaching, restorative urban land & artist-sanctuary custodianship, and growing in love as a daughter, sister, cousin, niece, auntie, great-auntie, friend.
She is co-founder and curator of Prismid Inc., a 501c3 that ushers and stewards restorative artist residency & workshop space in Portland, Oregon.
With her dance company Off Brand gOdds (co-founded with Antonio Brown) and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performance, workshop, teaching, and therapeutic-arts research residencies.
*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island
Read MoreShe is co-founder and curator of Prismid Inc., a 501c3 that ushers and stewards restorative artist residency & workshop space in Portland, Oregon.
With her dance company Off Brand gOdds (co-founded with Antonio Brown) and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performance, workshop, teaching, and therapeutic-arts research residencies.
*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island
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