La Fiamma

Academy of Vocal Arts

2008

$65,000

The Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) produced the Philadelphia premiere of Ottorino Respighi's rarely performed 1934 opera La Fiamma (The Flame). Two performances with a full orchestra conducted by Maestro Christofer Macatsoris were presented at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, featuring AVA resident artists, including soprano Angela Meade, baritone Christopher Bolduc, tenors Taylor Stayton and Bryan Hymel, and bass Ben Wager.

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The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland

Composer, improviser, and media artist Mike Bullock will join forces with Swedish composers and conceptual artists Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Kent Tankred, and Philadelphia musicians such as Ian Fraser and Bhob Rainey, for a program of electronic music, performance, and installations, expanding Philadelphia's connection to the international experimental music scene.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nichole Canuso

Canuso’s choreographic practice spans genres and experiments with the participation of audience bodies, personal narratives, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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News

Pew Fellows News: Sonia Sanchez Wins Wallace Stevens Award, Glenn Holsten’s Wyeth Documentary Makes PBS Debut, David Hartt’s Solo Exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago, and More

In September, Pew Fellows from across all art disciplines were nationally recognized for their work, launched new and innovative projects, and received prestigious honors and awards. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Robert Mealy

Robert Mealy is director of the Historical Performance Program at The Juilliard School, a professor at the Yale School of Music, orchestra director for the Boston Early Music Festival, and co-director of the 17th-century ensemble Quicksilver.

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Mushroom

The world premiere of a new play by Eisa Davis considers the immigrant experience through stories of a suburban Philadelphia mushroom farming community.

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In Plain Air

A new composition by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen, performed by the highly acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), activates Christ Church’s historic campus and celebrates the installation of a new custom-built pipe organ.

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News

Projects On Tour: Pati Hill Exhibition, Thaddeus Phillips, Silvana Cardell Bring Work to New Venues

Following successful premieres in the Philadelphia region, several Center-supported performances and exhibitions are traveling to venues around the world.

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Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies

The multimedia compositions and visceral, large-scale installations of pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher are illuminated through concerts, workshops, and a performance installation.

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On Stage This Fall: Opera Philadelphia’s First Festival, Premieres from New Paradise Laboratories, Thaddeus Phillips, Tempesta di Mare, and More

An abundance of Center-funded performances take the stage this fall.

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Questions of Practice

Inside Opera Philadelphia: Q&A with David Devan, General Director & President

Opera Philadelphia's David Devan talks with us about the market research that informed the organization’s decision to present a city-wide festival.

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The Metamorphoses of Don Juan

Opera Philadelphia and the Wilma Theater will explore the Don Juan legend in scenes from theatrical works inspired by the famed lover.

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Awakening

A contemporary chamber opera will tell the story of a 21st-century Black woman exploring her spirituality and purpose through the legacies of 19th-century Black women leaders: founder of Philadelphia’s Black Shaker movement Rebecca Cox Jackson and abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Toshi Reagon

Toshi Reagon has collaborated with top innovators across a wide spectrum of the entertainment field for nearly 30 years. Reagon served as an LOI panelist in Performance in 2015.

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Master Class with Pastora Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Pastora Galván at the Annenberg Center on March 14.

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Nouvelle, Nouvelle: A 16th-Century French Christmas Midnight Mass

A midnight mass service featured Claudin de Sermisy's Missa voulant Honneur, French Noel songs, and a nativity play.

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Grey Gardens

PTC presented the Philadelphia premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical based on the 1975 documentary of the same title.

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Kelley Rourke

Kelley Rourke is a librettist, translator, and dramaturg who serves as resident dramaturg for the Washington National Opera and The Glimmerglass Festival.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Bassist and Composer Jymie Merritt

Bassist, composer, and Pew Fellow Jymie Merritt discusses the early influence of Duke Ellington on his artistic practice, his interest in digital composition tools, and more.

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Welcome to Yuba City

This new theater work was a cowboy-clown odyssey presenting fragments of a mythic American desertscape.

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Hello Blackout!

This world premiere will integrate contingency—accident, chance, and improvisation—into the ensemble's physical theater style, with live music by composer and Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey.

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