Kate Soper & Nigel Maister
This unique site-specific opera — commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a collaboration led by Alan Pierson — is both about and created for the Temple of Dendur. Following the Temple through time, the opera looks at those who left their mark on it, and how we all let those who come after us know that we were here.
ReviewsNew York Times
"Music and text were both at their best when simplest: The more ambitiously multilayered the action, the more muddied the drama and sound." - Zachary Woolfe, |
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Notable Performances
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Temple of Dendur, New York, NY 2014 |
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From the Composer
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Described by The New Yorker as "one of the great originals of her generation," composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper has been creating unique and uncategorizable musico-theatrical spectacles for over a decade. Her critically-acclaimed large-scale works include the monodramas Voices from the Killing Jar, IPSA DIXIT, and Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus and the operas Here Be Sirens, The Romance of the Rose, and The Hunt. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Rome Prize fellow, she has been commissioned by Miller Theatre, Alarm Will Sound, and the New York Philharmonic. Praised by The New York Times for her "lithe voice and riveting presence,†she performs frequently in her own works and in the works of others. Kate is co-director and vocalist for the Wet Ink Ensemble, a collective of composers, performers, and improvisors dedicated to seeking out adventurous music across aesthetic boundaries.
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