Mark Adamo
Mark Adamo
Mark Adamois an American composer, librettist and professor of music composition at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He was born in Philadelphia...
finally found notion structure
When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,
They are all changing, and Jo is resisting,
above bass classical core create drives free generates illusion late line modern period romantic settled vocal voices weight
From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.
act against dying opera rail sopranos theater
I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.
cusp girl love realize six smart
This is a love story with six protagonists, ... And it's about a girl on the cusp of womanhood, a girl who is smart enough to realize she's happy, but not smart enough to know that everything must change.