Chamber Opera: The Hunt
Campus Arts Event
Chamber Opera: The Hunt
The Hunt reclaims a well-worn medieval legend to interrogate the contemporary obsession with regulating and restricting female sexuality, the consequences for gender deviance, the value of beauty, and the price of safety.
$10-$65
Miller Theatre
October 12, 2023 | 8:00 pm
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Composer

Kate Soper is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2024 Rome Prize fellow, Soper has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Koussevitzky Foundation, and has been commissioned by ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, and Yarn/Wire.

Performers

Brett Umlauf
Fleur, soprano and ukulele
Christiana Cole
Briar, soprano and ukulele
Hirona Amamiya
Rue, soprano and violin

Location

Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)
New York, NY

About The Performance

Three virgins sit in a meadow, whiling the time away with songs, riddles, and livestream updates as they await the appearance of the majestic unicorn. But the weeks are dragging on, the court is getting antsy, and the king is threatening dire measures to verify the purity of his employees. Written for a cast of three self-accompanied singers, The Hunt reclaims a well-worn medieval legend to interrogate the contemporary obsession with regulating and restricting female sexuality, the consequences for gender deviance, the value of beauty, and the price of safety—all while captivating the audience with music that beguiles, provokes, and ultimately triumphs.

Commissioned by Miller Theatre at Columbia University. Major support for The Hunt is provided by Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts.

For more information, please visit the event website.

Image: production artwork for The Hunt / courtesy of Miller Theatre