Opera Aria Premiere TOUCHING THE SUN for the ENA Ensemble Celestial Song Cycle in Philadelphia, PA 9/14

ENAensemble presents its second Serial Opera Project, a multi-month performance of a new chamber opera in three parts, written by three different composer-librettist teams and centered loosely around the theme of “the celestial.” Each performance in the series will feature a premiere of the next part of the opera, as well as selected chamber works and a song for voice and one instrument as part of ENAensemble’s New Song Series. Performances will be held in September, November, and January,  culminating in a fully-realized “binge-staging” of the opera in 2023.

The first part of the Serial Opera, Wailing at the Moon, features a libretto by Traci D. Williams and music by Sepehr Pirasteh, along with singers Megnot Toggia and Carleen Baron and Chelsea Meynig (flute), Leigh Brown (cello), and Thomas Schuttenhelm (guitar). The performance will also feature the premiere of a new art song entitled “Touching the Sun” with music by Rose Miranda Hall and text by Cecil Castellucci, featuring Toggia and Brown.