Frank Gehry to work as scenic designer for jazz opera
Frank Gehry has joined forces with legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter and fellow jazz musician Esperanza Spalding to serve as the scenic designer for the jazz opera Iphigenia. The architect even opened up his kitchen for work and rehearsals of the project.Based on Euripides’ play Iphigenia in Aulis, the opera is Shorter’s first plunge into the classical space, the realization of his lifelong dream to compose an opera since he was a 19-year-old music student. As mentioned on New Music USA, “...these three singular artists are creating on a truly unique theatrical vision that seeks to deconstruct this classic text, transposed onto a modern, Black-American family, and disrupt the script of stories about gender, race, and family that we’re told can never change.” Archinect's Orhan Ayyuce and Frank Gehry in conversation, from An Interview with Frank Gehry, Who Turns 90 Today, Upon Receiving the Neutra Award for Professional ExcellenceIphigenia has been a work in progress f...
Frank Gehry has joined forces with legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter and fellow jazz musician Esperanza Spalding to serve as the scenic designer for the jazz opera Iphigenia. The architect even opened up his kitchen for work and rehearsals of the project.
Based on Euripides’ play Iphigenia in Aulis, the opera is Shorter’s first plunge into the classical space, the realization of his lifelong dream to compose an opera since he was a 19-year-old music student.
As mentioned on New Music USA, “...these three singular artists are creating on a truly unique theatrical vision that seeks to deconstruct this classic text, transposed onto a modern, Black-American family, and disrupt the script of stories about gender, race, and family that we’re told can never change.”
Iphigenia has been a work in progress f...
