Having explored for over three decades in the world of post-modern dance, Ms. Brown first stepped into the world of opera in 1998 when she directed Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo. Of the performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1999, Jack Anderson of the New York Times wrote: “Monteverdi's music often seems to glow. So, finally, did this production. Ms. Brown…demonstrate[s] that when experienced choreographers have vision and daring, miracles can result."


from Orfeo, photo by Johan Jacobs, 1998
Since then, Ms. Brown has gone on to direct three more operas, including, Luci Mie Traditrici (2001), Winterreise (2002), and Da Gelo a Gelo (2006). Her latest work, L'Amour au theatre (2009) is an elegant abstract rendering of portions from Jean-Phillipe Rameau's Baroque opera, Hippolyte et Aricie, and in Summer 2010, Ms. Brown will premiere her direction of Rameau's one-act opera, Pigmalion, coupled with L'Amour au theatre.


See Trisha Brown Dance Company's Opéra Repertory.

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