Svadba Press Release 04 08 17 Updated
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Svadba – Wedding Fact Sheet When: Tuesday, May 8 at 7:30 PM Wednesday, May 9 at 7:30 PM Thursday, May 10 at 7:30 PM Svadba–Wedding lasts approximately 60 minutes with no intermission. Where: Best Place, 901 W. Juneau, Milwaukee Tickets: $50 VIP, $28 General, $18 Students and Artists Order online at https://svadba.bpt.me or 800-838-3006 Creative: Stage Director: Jill Anna Ponasik, Choreographer: Debra Loewen, Music Director/Conductor: Adam Qutaishat, Assistant Stage Director: Daniel J. Brylow Cast: Milwaukee Opera Theatre singers: Alaina Carlson, Lydia Rose Eiche, Allison Hull, Sarah Richardson, Mikaela Schneider and Kati Schwaber, Wild Space Dancers: Kylee Mae Karzen, Danielle Lohuis, Elisabeth O'Keefe, Maggie Seer and Jimmi Renae Weyneth. Composer: Serbian-born composer Ana Sokolović, who has lived in Montreal for two decades, has been immersed in the arts all her life. Before taking up theatre and music, she studied classical ballet. She studied composition at university under Dusan Radić in Novi Sad and Zoran Erić in Belgrade, then completed a master’s degree under the supervision of José Evangelista at the Université de Montréal, where she currently teaches composition. Her work is suffused with her fascination for different forms of artistic expression. Both rich and playful, her compositions draw the listener into a vividly imagined world, often inspired by Balkan folk music and its asymmetrical festive rhythms. Her pioneering work quickly vaulted her to a prominent position on the Quebec, Canadian and international contemporary music scenes. Since 1995, Sokolović has earned a steady stream of commissions and awards from prestigious organizations, such as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian National Arts Centre and Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Today, her repertoire includes orchestral, vocal, chamber, operatic and theatrical pieces. In 2012, her opera Svadba –Wedding, commissioned and produced by Toronto’s Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, received six nominations for the Dora Mavor Moore Awards and won for Outstanding New Musical/Opera. Sokolović recently received a prestigious commission from the Canadian Opera Company for a main-stage opera that will be premiered during the 2019/20 season. For more information, visit anasokolvic.com. Press: "Girls just want to have fun! It's a delightful and moving chamber opera." –San Francisco Examiner "It would be hard to imagine a more committed or inviting performance....” –San Francisco Chronicle “Sokolovic’s music is unfailingly inventive....” –Opera News Contact: Jill Anna Ponasik, MOT, 917/684-0512 Sheri Urban, Wild Space, 414/271-0307 .