Real Time Opera
(RTO) is a performing arts organization dedicated to the production of new opera. Founded in 2002, it is based in Contoocook, New Hampshire and produces opera across the USA, engaging professional singers and a range of instrumental ensembles for performances at a wide variety of venues.
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First seasons and achievements
The first season in 2003 presented a workshop of
KORCZAK'S ORPHANS
by
Adam Silverman and Susan Gubernat based on the life of the famous Polish children's doctor, orphanage director and Holocaust martyr,
Janusz Korczak. It was performed at the Lebanon Opera House in New Hampshire and in May 2004 was presented at
New York City Opera as part of VOX 2004: Showcasing American Composers. It continues to have workshopped performances at
Opera Theatre of Brooklyn.
HAWAIIAN TAN RATFACE
with words and music by
John Trubee was premiered in February, 2004, at San Francisco's
Studio Z, accompanied by the Ugly Janitors of America with choreography by
Carl Franzoni.
FEYNMAN
is a new opera by composer
Jack Vees, Operations Director of the
Yale Center for Studies in Music Technology, and librettist
Paul Schick. Its subject is the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and cult figure
Richard Feynman. A percussion quartet provides the orchestra backing a solo Dr. Feynman onstage. The premiere performance at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, CT, in June 2005, and subsequent tour of New England were performed by SO Percussion and baritone Michael Cavalieri. In December 2005, Feynman was restaged in New York City at the
Knitting Factory, with lighting and video design by Barry Steele and scenery design by Damen Mroczek. A world tour is in planning.
Works in Progress
A HOUSE IN BALI
is a new opera by composer
Evan Ziporyn and librettist
Paul Schick for production in 2009.
A House in Bali
is based on the autobiographical book by
Canadian composer
Colin McPhee. Performances in
New York City,
San Francisco and
Bali will combine the traditional Balinese
gamelan and dancers with Western musicians from the
Bang on a Can All-Stars.
LEAVE ME ALONE!
is being written by
Dan Plonsey to a new libretto by
Harvey Pekar who is perhaps best known for his series of autobiographical comic books and the subsequent movie:
American Splendor
.