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Kamran Ince’s Judgment of Midas in Brooklyn and at Lincoln Center

Jan. 11, 2011

American Opera Projects presented the first public performance of Kamran Ince’s opera Judgment of Midas on January 10 in a workshop performance at South Oxford Space in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. A second performance was held at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center on January 12. Kamran Ince took part in a post-concert discussion as part of AOP's First Chance initiative-a program that promotes interaction between audience and composer, as the musical work is revealed to the public for the first time.

J. David Jackson conducted an international cast featuring Lynn Trepel Caglar, Matthew Morgan, Gregory Gerbrandt and the Metropolitan Opera’s Jason Papowitz, Philip Horst, and Mikhail Svetlov. Performances also featured Katie Kat Smith, Heather Michele Meyer, Sarah Moulton-Faux, and Michael Scarcelle. Mila Henry accompanied on piano.

Loosely based on Ovid's mythical drama Metamorphoses with a libretto by Miriam Seidel, Judgment of Midas details the epic musical battle that occurs between the gods Pan and Apollo. With King Midas as the witness, Pan, maker of "street music" and Apollo, maker of the god's music, compete for supremacy as the foremost divine musician. Mixing together an assortment of world, ethnic, popular and folk music, Ince uses his versatile compositional talents to depict the mythical musical duel of the gods. The opera celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, co-sponsored by the Harvard University Art Museum and Cornell University under a commission from eminent archaeologist Dr. Crawford H. Greenewalt Jr.

Learn more on the performance at www.operaprojects.org.

Visit www.kamranince.com and www.schott-music.com for information on the composer.

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