Atalanta Strategy
The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.
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This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...
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Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the...
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In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater...
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Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the...
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A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.
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A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto...
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