Voyagers, we’ve been fortunate to collab with @bmop on seven #opera releases on the #BMOPsound label. From a Fisherman to a Fox, from Joan of Arc to Malcolm X, from Queen Jane Grey to Dr. Oliver Sacks, including the latest — Dominick Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe. 🐦⬛
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“#OdysseyOpera’s programming regularly touches home… The company’s October 2024 presentation of the other two Gershwin political satires — Of Thee I Sing and Let ‘em Eat Cake — could hardly have come at a better moment. Similarly, Odyssey’s 2023 production of Tobias Picker’s Awakenings hauntingly brought to life questions of medicine, science, and ethics.” • https://artsfuse.org/305462/arts-commentary-art-music-and-the-new-age-of-anxiety/
However late the hour and however long the road ahead, the cause of standing for justice, knowledge, and freedom isn’t yet doomed. Along the way, let the arts comfort, inspire, instruct, and help lead. That’s what they’re here for.
Voyagers, #ICYMI Ralph Locke includes our #collab with @bmop on Tobias Picker’s Awakenings in The Boston Musical Intelligencer’s “List for 2024”. Of this world premiere recording, captured for BMOP/sound in 2023 at @gbhnews’s Fraser Performance Studio, he writes the opera is “performed with precision and insight by the Boston-area #OdysseyOpera, under the indefatigable Gil Rose.” • https://www.classical-scene.com/2024/12/09/lockes-list-for-2024/
Once again, the past twelve months have seen an outpouring of fascinating and important recordings of operatic and other vocal works (and a few instrumental ones). I have been fortunate to receive copies of many of them for review in this and several other venues (American Record Guide and The Arts
Voyagers, we’re proud to say we def. know this #Jeopardy! question: What is Awakenings?
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Ralph Locke reviews the #BMOPsound release, Tobias Picker: Awakenings, in the May/June 2024 issue of American Record Guide, writing Awakenings “now reaches listeners through a recording thanks to the tireless efforts of #OdysseyOpera and its imaginative and enterprising founder-conductor Gil Rose… Awakenings is clearly an opera that is going to have legs…“ // https://bmopsound.bandcamp.com/album/tobias-picker-awakenings
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Operawire says of Tobias Picker: Awakenings, “The expertly crafted opening sequence features a choral retelling of the Sleeping Beauty myth… the #OdysseyOpera choir trade off phrases of a folksong-like melody that melancholically conveys a sense of powerlessness… the @bmop, conducted by Gil Rose, plods steadily through monotone repetitions…standing in for the patients’ statuesque immobility.” // https://operawire.com/cd-review-tobias-pickers-awakenings/
#ICYMI, BBC Music Magazine gives ★★★★★ each for performance and recording in its review of Tobias Picker: Awakenings.
Stream, share, and gift this poignant, powerful opera based on Dr. Oliver Sacks’s memoir of the same name // https://bit.ly/BMOPAwakenings
13 track album
#OdysseyOpera is nominated in BroadwayWorld’s Boston Awards in the category Best Production of an Opera (Professional) for our staging of Tobias Picker’s and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s new opera, Awakenings // https://odysseyopera.org/awakenings/
Cast your vote today for Odyssey Opera // https://www.broadwayworld.com/boston/voteregion.cfm Voting is open to the public through December 31, 2023.
To vote for the #OdysseyOpera production of Tobias Picker’s and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s opera, Awakenings, visit https://www.broadwayworld.com/boston/voteregion.cfm
Voting is open to the public through December 31, 2023.
This production, the East Coast premiere of Awakenings, presented in partnership with @bmop, tells the incredible true story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a young neurologist treating victims of a mysterious sleeping-sickness epidemic during the early 20th century. Awakenings explores Sacks’s journey of perseverance and compassion that brought his ‘frozen’ patients back to being — but not to the world they left behind // https://odysseyopera.org/awakenings/
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