Beth Morrison (producer)

Beth Morrison is an American producer of contemporary opera.

Morrison is known for her collaborations with many artists through her company Beth Morrison Projects including composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Du Yun, Paola Prestini, Kamala Sankaram and David Lang, librettist Royce Vavrek, and performers Lauren Worsham, Abigail Fischer, Nathan Gunn and Courtney Love. With Kim Whitener and Kristin Marting of Here Arts Center she created the annual festival Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now.^[1]

Operas/Music Theatre Works

• Soldier Songs (2008, David T. Little composer and librettist)^[2]
• Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt (2012, Missy Mazzoli composer, Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek librettists)^[3]
• Dog Days (2012, David T. Little composer, Royce Vavrek librettist)^[4]
• Thumbprint (2014, Kamala Sankaram composer, Susan Yankowitz librettist)^[5]
• The Source (2014, Ted Hearne composer, Mark Doten librettist)^[6]
• Kansas City Choir Boy (2015, Todd Almond composer and librettist)^[7]
• Anatomy Theater (2016, David Lang composer, Lang and Mark Dion, librettists)^[8]
• Angel's Bone (2016, Du Yun composer, Royce Vavrek librettist)^[9]
• Aging Magician (2016, Paola Prestini composer, co-created by Prestini, Rinde Eckert and Julian Crouch)^[10]
• Breaking the Waves (2016, Missy Mazzoli composer, Royce Vavrek librettist)^[11]

Concert Works

• 21c Liederabend (2009, 2011, 2013, 2016)^{[12][13][14][15]}
  • A Few Stops on the N Train (2011, Du Yun composer and lyricist)^[16]
  • Albert, Bound or Unbound (2013, Marie Incontrera composer, Royce Vavrek librettist)^[17]
• Brooklyn Village (2012)^[18]
  • Home (2012) (Sarah Kirkland Snider composer, Nathaniel Bellows lyricist)
  • Canvas (2012) (Matthew Mehlan composer, Royce Vavrek lyricist)
  • Am I Born (2012) (David T. Little composer, Royce Vavrek librettist)^[19]
• The Hubble Cantata (2016, Paola Prestini composer, Royce Vavrek librettist)^[20]

References