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Iphigenia: A New Opera at Zellerbach Hall
Courtesy of Bandsintown | Posted on November 9, 2021
Where
Zellerbach Hall
101 Zellerbach Hall #4800
Berkeley, CA
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When
Sat, February 12, 2022
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Esperanza Spalding
bassWayne Shorter
saxophoneAbout
Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding
Iphigenia: A New Opera
West Coast Premiere
A Cal Performances Co-commission
A living legend of jazz collaborates with one of the brightest lights of the younger generation in the West Coast premiere of a Cal Performances co-commission that reimagines what opera can be, and asks us to reexamine the stories we have inherited and the choices we make as a society.
Wayne Shorter, 11-time Grammy-winning composer and saxophonist, has composed the music, and Esperanza Spalding, four-time Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and vocalist, is the librettist and plays the title role in Iphigenia, a radical new take on Euripides’ ancient Greek play Iphigenia in Aulis. Classical and jazz forms collide in an expansive score that features Shorter’s groundbreaking method of symphonic improvisation, lifting up Spalding’s artfully poetic and fractured libretto....