{"id":397,"date":"2017-10-28T17:34:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=397"},"modified":"2017-10-28T17:35:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:35:21","slug":"nov-10-12-boston-opera-collaborative-performs-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/28\/nov-10-12-boston-opera-collaborative-performs-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 10-12: Boston Opera Collab. performs Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonoperacollaborative.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Opera Collaborative<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonnewmusic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston New Music Initiative<\/a> will perform a new chamber arrangement of Oliver&#8217;s 2012 short opera\u00a0<em>Symposium.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em>Symposium<\/em> (story and libretto by Anne\u00a0Ray) hovers over a\u00a0vacant and impersonal landscape of cubicles and hotel conference rooms, following the inner mind of its protagonist as she steps into that familiar and fractured sense of feeling alone, even while surrounded by others.\u00a0Connecting with other people is so hard \u2013 especially when you can\u2019t stop arguing with yourself. Three singers play one woman deciding whether to risk embarrassment for a chance at love.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is part of Boston Opera Collaborative&#8217;s annual Opera Bites program, a\u00a0fabulous evening of opera and revelry in a cabaret style setting, featuring seven short works \u2014 including three brand new commissions and world-premieres!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Friday, November 10 at 8:00pm<br \/>\nSaturday, November 11 at 8:00pm<br \/>\nSunday, November 12 at 3:00pm<br \/>\nLong School of Music at Bard College<br \/>\nPickman Hall<br \/>\n27 Garden Street<br \/>\nCambridge, MA 02138<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonoperacollaborative.org\/opera-bites-nov-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Opera Collaborative and Boston New Music Initiative will perform a new chamber arrangement of Oliver&#8217;s 2012 short opera\u00a0Symposium.\u00a0 Symposium (story and libretto by Anne\u00a0Ray) hovers over a\u00a0vacant and impersonal landscape of cubicles and hotel conference rooms, following the inner mind of its protagonist as she steps into that familiar and fractured sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}