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Matt Gray, Director, Spring Street Opera
Matt Gray is an award-winning Brooklyn-based director, producer, and writer originally from Marysville, Ohio. He studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts achieving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Directing and spent several years in New York working in indie and film. He began at American Opera Projects in 2003 never having seen an opera, but quickly relied on his background in film and theatre to develop AOP projects from the point of view of an audience member unfamiliar with opera, but well-versed in popular entertainment and modern storytelling. Some of the operas Gray has directed include, As One (New York City Opera, Columbus Opera, Chautauqua Opera, International Opera Projects) and Darkling. He’s hosted workshops at the American Opera Theater, that is, Numinous City (Rubin Museum of Art), AbSynth and Semmelweis (New York Academy of Medicine). He has continued to work as a writer and director for numerous concerts, cabarets, and plays around NYC. He was the co-writer and co-director of the 12-part serialized play Penny Dreadful which ran at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn for two years and was also one of five directors on the award-winning indie horror anthology film The Moose Head Over the Mantel, which will be released on Blu-Ray and streaming in January 2019. In July 2019 Gray became the General Director of The American Opera Project (AOP), an organization specializing in the creation of contemporary opera (including As One, which it commissioned and premiered in 2014), having been with the company for fifteen years. Matt Gray director exclusive world première of Spring Street and the full performance can be watched here on Saturday 24th July 2021. Inspired by life on Spring Street, Manhattan – setting the poetry of Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo to music by Pete Wyer – wildly eclectic like the street itself. View the trailer here. https://jeeni.com/springstreet/ #mattgray #opera #newyork #original #springstreet #virtualopera #poetry #newyorkopera #manhattenopera #composer #director #producer #americanopera #theatre #musictheatre #directingworkshops #theamericanoperaproject #contemporaryopera #newyorkconcert #newyorkcitydirector
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Soprano Jasmine Muhammad - The Purple Frog
Soprano Jasmine Muhammad, as Miss Alden, leads her first-graders through a lesson on identifying types of nouns. When the class-clown expresses his frustration, she realizes why he's been so disruptive. She ditches her lesson plan and takes an impromptu detour that enchants and inspires her students. "The Purple Frog" Music by Tony Solitro Text by John De Los Santos Jasmine Muhammad, soprano Mila Henry, piano Video - Chris Comfort Audio - Misja van den Burg Production Assistant - Kelsey Strauch Recorded on location at South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY Created in Cycle 10 of The American Opera Project’s “Composers & the Voice” Fellowship Training Program C&V Artistic Director: Steven Osgood Head of Music: Mila Henry Head of Drama: Matt Gray Music Director: Kelly Horsted Composers & the Voice is made possible in part by a generous multi-year award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation #teacherappreciationweek2021 #weloveteachers #frogs #composer #librettist #singer #soprano #teaching #classclown
The American Opera Project webinar
The American Opera Project invites you for a webinar and Q&A session about Composers & the Voice. During this webinar, C&V’s program directors Steven Osgood, Matt Gray, and Mila Henry will explain the details of the 2-year program, share videos of previous C&V projects from first workshop to final product, and answer YOUR questions! Watch the full webinar at https://www.facebook.com/aopopera/live/ or https://youtu.be/Xs-6sUh7ZmA
Ga Sho - promotional video of the opera
Promotional video of the opera-in-development, with music samples. About the making of the new opera - GA SHO https://www.aopopera.org/ga-sho CREATIVE TEAM: Pete A. Wyer ￨Composer & Librettist Melissa Salmons ￨Librettist Matt Gray ￨Stage Director Tenzing Sonam ￨Co-director (film) Ritu Sarin ￨Co-director (film) FEATURED DEVELOPMENT ARTISTS: Hirona Amamiya, Joshua Bouchard, Samantha Britt, Lynsey Buckelew, Matthew Curran, Brittany Fowler, Sara Heaton, Mila Henry, Hidenori Inoue, Erin Kemp, Michelle Kennedy, Michael Krzankowski, Jessica Miller-Rauch, Erica Moon, Molly Mustonen, Clint Okayama, Doug Purcell, Caleb Stokes