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Royce Vavrek

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Royce Vavrek is a Canadian-born Brooklyn-based librettist, playwright, musical theatre writer and filmmaker known for his collaborations with composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Ricky Ian Gordon and Du Yun, soprano Lauren Worsham, producers Beth Morrison and Lawrence Edelson, and conductors Steven Osgood, Julian Wachner and Alan Pierson. [1]

89 relations: Alan Pierson, Alarm Will Sound, Alban Berg, Alberta, American Lyric Theater, Andrew Gerle, Angel's Bone, Barbara Walsh, Beth Morrison (producer), Bookwriter, Breaking the Waves, Breaking the Waves (opera), Brooklyn, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Catherine Breillat, Chuck Cooper (actor), Concordia University, Corus Entertainment, Cristian Amigo, Dallas Observer, David T. Little, Dog Days (opera), Du Yun, Edward Albee, Filmmaking, Fort Worth Opera, From Sky and Soil, Grande Prairie, Gregory Spears, Hannah Lash, Houston Grand Opera, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, International Contemporary Ensemble, Jeff Myers, JFK (opera), John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Joshua Schmidt, Julian Wachner, Kathleen Edwards, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Kyle Jarrow, Larry Clark, Larry McMurtry, Lars von Trier, Lauren Worsham, Libretto, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, ..., Lyricist, Martin McDonagh, Maya Angelou, Midwestern Gothic (musical), Mike Leigh, Miriam Toews, Missy Mazzoli, Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera, Musical theatre, Neil LaBute, New York City Opera, New York Observer, New York University, O Columbia, Opera America, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Paola Prestini, Pietro Metastasio, Pig and Bear, Playbill, Playwright, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Richard Ford, Ricky Ian Gordon, Sam Shepard, Samuel Barber, Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia), Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, Steven Osgood, The Kitchen, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Tony Award, Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera, W Network, Wong Kar-wai, 27 (opera). Expand index (39 more) »

Alan Pierson

Alan Emanuel Pierson (born May 12, 1974, Chicago, Illinois) is an American conductor.

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Alarm Will Sound

Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member chamber orchestra that focuses on recordings and performances of contemporary classical music.

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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American Lyric Theater

American Lyric Theater (ALT) an opera company based in New York City and they specialize in the development of new works.

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Andrew Gerle

Andrew Gerle is an American composer and pianist known for his musical adaptation of "Meet John Doe" with librettist Eddie Sugarman which premiered at the Ford's Theater in Washington.

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Angel's Bone

Angel's Bone is an opera by composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek in one act that follows the plight of two angels discovered on earth who are forced into spiritual and sexual slavery at the hands of a financially troubled couple.

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Barbara Walsh

Barbara Walsh (born June 3, 1955) is an American musical theatre actress who has appeared in several prominent Broadway productions.

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Beth Morrison (producer)

Beth Morrison is an American producer of contemporary opera.

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Bookwriter

The bookwriter is the member of a musical's writing team who creates the book—the musical's plot, character development, and dramatic structure.

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Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson.

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Breaking the Waves (opera)

Breaking the Waves is an opera in three acts by Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance.

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Brooklyn Philharmonic

There have been several organizations referred to as the "Brooklyn Philharmonic." The most recent one was the now-defunct Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, an American orchestra based in the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City in existence from the 1950s until 2012.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat (French; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School.

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Chuck Cooper (actor)

Chuck Cooper (born November 8, 1954) is an American actor.

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Concordia University

Concordia University (commonly referred to as Concordia) is a public comprehensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on unceded Indigenous lands.

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Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment is a Canadian media and broadcasting company.

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Cristian Amigo

Cristian Amigo (born 1963) is an American composer, improviser, guitarist, and ethnomusicologist of Chilean birth.

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Dallas Observer

The Dallas Observer is a free alternative weekly newspaper distributed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and headquartered in Dallas.

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David T. Little

David T. Little (born October 25, 1978) is an American composer and drummer known for his orchestral and operatic works, most notably his opera Dog Days which was named a standout opera of recent decades by The New York Times.

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Dog Days (opera)

Dog Days is an opera by David T. Little, to a libretto by Royce Vavrek after the short story by Judy Budnitz.

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Du Yun

Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵, born June 18, 1977) is a Chinese born international composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and performance artist.

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Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and A Delicate Balance (1966).

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition.

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Fort Worth Opera

Fort Worth Opera is the oldest continually-performing opera company in the state of Texas and among the oldest in the United States, according to the company.

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From Sky and Soil

From Sky and Soil is a short film created as part of the Corus Young Filmmakers Initiative for broadcast on the W Network in Canada.

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Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie is a city in northwest Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country.

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Gregory Spears

Gregory Spears is an American composer of instrumental and operatic works that blend aspects of romanticism, minimalism, and early music.

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Hannah Lash

Hannah Lash (born 1981) is an American composer of concert music who serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Music.

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Houston Grand Opera

Houston Grand Opera (HGO), located in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and Houstonians Elva Lobit, Edward Bing, and Charles Cockrell.

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

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International Contemporary Ensemble

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a contemporary classical music ensemble, based in New York City and Chicago.

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Jeff Myers

Jeff Myers (born August 11, 1977) is an American composer.

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JFK (opera)

JFK is an opera in two acts by American composer David T. Little, with an English-language libretto by Royce Vavrek.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., named in 1964 as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.

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Joshua Schmidt

Joshua Schmidt is an American composer, lyricist, bookwriter and theatrical sound designer.

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Julian Wachner

Julian Wachner (born 1969) is an American composer, conductor and keyboardist.

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Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician.

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Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, is a 1947 work for voice and orchestra by Samuel Barber, with text from a 1938 short prose piece by James Agee.

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Kyle Jarrow

Kyle Jarrow (born October 7, 1979) is a New York City-based writer and rock musician.

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Larry Clark

Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial teen film Kids (1995) and his photography book Tulsa.

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Larry McMurtry

Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the Old West or in contemporary Texas.

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Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades.

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Lauren Worsham

Lauren Tolbert Worsham (born April 4, 1982) is an American actress and singer known for her work in the opera and musical theatre.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil or LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California.

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Lyricist

A lyricist or lyrist is a person who writes lyrics—words for songs—as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's melody.

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Martin McDonagh

Martin Faranan McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

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Midwestern Gothic (musical)

Midwestern Gothic is a musical with book and lyrics by Royce Vavrek and music and lyrics by Joshua Schmidt.

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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.

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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews (born 1964) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows.

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Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli (born October 27, 1980) is an American composer and pianist who is a member of the composition faculty at the Mannes College of Music.

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Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera

The Music Critics Association of America (MCANA) Award for Best New Opera is an annual prize given to a composer and librettist.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Neil LaBute

Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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New York City Opera

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City.

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New York Observer

Observer is an online newspaper originating in New York City.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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O Columbia

O Columbia is an opera in three parts by Gregory Spears, with an English-language libretto by Royce Vavrek.

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Opera America

Opera America, officially OPERA America, is a service organization promoting the creation, presentation, and enjoyment of opera in the US.

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Opera Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia (prior to 2013 Opera Company of Philadelphia (OCP)) is an American opera company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the city's only company producing grand opera.

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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) is an American summer opera festival held in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Paola Prestini

Paola Prestini is a composer of classical music.

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Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

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Pig and Bear

Pig and Bear is an experimental short film by Royce Vavrek, internationally screened throughout North America in 2008.

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Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Richard Ford

Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Ricky Ian Gordon

Ricky Ian Gordon (born May 15, 1956) is an American composer of art song, opera and musical theatre.

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Sam Shepard

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose body of work spanned half a century.

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Samuel Barber

Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music.

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Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia)

Signature Theatre is a Greater Washington D.C. Area regional theater company based in Arlington, Virginia.

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Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt is an opera in one act by Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek and Mazzoli.

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Steven Osgood

Steven Osgood is an American classical music conductor.

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The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera

Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera is a comic opera in one act by David T. Little to a libretto by Royce Vavrek.

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W Network

W Network (often shortened to W) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel, owned by Corus Entertainment.

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Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai, BBS (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized work, including As Tears Go By (1988), Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), 2046 (2004) and The Grandmaster (2013).

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27 (opera)

27 (or Twenty-Seven) is an opera by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Royce Vavrek in a prologue and five acts that explores the relationship of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and the salons that they hosted at their residence at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Vavrek

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