World Premiere Production • 08-20 March 2019 • La Monnaie | De Munt • Brussels, Belgium
World Premiere Production • 08-20 March 2019 • La Monnaie | De Munt • Brussels, Belgium
FRANKENSTEIN No.7 in Opera Wire – 10 Must See Operas In 2019
The New York Times Feature – ‘We Feel a Kinship With the Creature’
25 October, 2018, sharing the pages with the likes of Mel Brooks and John Logan – having a celebratory Frankenstein bicentennial monster mash-up. Setting the stage for our Frankenstein opera @ La Monnaie, Brussels March 2019.
Preview: FRANKENSTEIN @ La Monnaie, March 8-20, 2019
Unlike what was later made of it by Hollywood, Mary Shelley’s original novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus tells the profoundly sad tale of a creature – the result of a scientific experiment – that strives to do good, but nevertheless does evil and is consequently rejected by its maker. Two centuries after its publication, the US composer and sound designer Mark Grey returns to the original story for his first full-length opera. Grey reworks it as a philosophical reflection on the human condition in our time and on the technology that gives humankind power over life and death on Earth, as well as a warning to a society that threatens to cast out the individual. Video and audio technology will play a crucial part in this 21st-century interpretation by La Fura dels Baus, commissioned by La Monnaie, which will present its first performance.
BIRDS IN THE MOON
for mezzo-soprano, male voice, string quartet and soundscapes
Premiere: CalPerformances, Berkeley CA
Spring 2020
BIRDS IN THE MOON is a traveling chamber opera staged in a mobile state of the art, self-contained, derelict shipping container – a theatrical magic box.
FRANKENSTEIN OPERA
Premiere: Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
de Munt, Brussels, Belgium
March 8-20, 2019
Co-commissioners to be announced
Music by Mark Grey
Stage Direction by Alex Ollé Gol (La Fura dels Baus)
Set Design by Alfons Flores
Costume Design by Lluc Castells
Conducted by Bassem Akiki
details & tickets
FANTASMAGORIANA
chamber symphony
commissioned by Jacaranda Music and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
World Premiere on November 18, 2017
Part of the Noon to Midnight Festival
Review: Berkeley Symphony previews a ‘Frankenstein’ opera
San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 2016
“Like a movie trailer, Grey’s 35-minute orchestral work is assembled out of some of the choice scenes from the full offering, arranged not in narrative order but so as to make things feel all the more alluring. Listening to these selections — which are robust enough to stand on their own, yet still teasingly partial in their dramatic effect — made a cogent argument for the virtues of the opera…Grey’s command of the orchestra is often striking, with ingenious combinations of instrumental color and a dramatic sense of scale that shows off those resources expertly.”
San Francisco Chronicle picks FRANKENSTEIN SYMPHONY in top five classical music choices for 2016: Classical Music Gems for 2016
The Naxos recording of Grey’s Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio is of the world premiere performance featuring the Phoenix Symphony conducted by Michael Christie, the Phoenix Symphony Chorus and baritone Scott Hendricks.
Read liner notes | Read libretto | Order on Amazon
Selected as a “Best Classical Release” of Q1 2009, Allmusic.com
A Naxos Direct Best Selling Album
“Mark Grey’s score is perfectly crafted, impeccably paced, beautifully scored.”
~The Arizona Republic
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